Numerical Linear Algebra Group

Congratulations to Jack Dongarra who has received the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award. He is cited “for pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades.”

Dongarra has been Turing Fellow in the Department of Mathematics since 2007, and also holds appointments at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

In summer 2021 the NLA Group organized a workshop New Directions in Numerical Linear Algebra and High Performance Computing: Celebrating the 70th Birthday of Jack Dongarra. Videos of talks, including one by Dongarra, are available here and provide much insight into Dongarra’s career and achievements.

The photo below shows Dongarra speaking at the 2019 Manchester workshop Advances in Numerical Linear Algebra: Celebrating the Centenary of the Birth of James H. Wilkinson. Wilkinson, seen at the top eight-hand corner of the slide, won the Turing Award in 1971.