Alice E. Koniges is an internationally known authority on parallel application development. As leader of the Parallel Applications Technology Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, she directed researchers in the largest set of agreements between industries and national laboratories ever funded by the US Department of Energy. She has served as a consultant to the Max Planck Institutes of Germany on parallelization and high performance computing issues. She was the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Princeton University.
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