Prof Jack Dongarra elected member of National Academy of Sciences
of The University of ManchesterÇà¹ÏÊÓƵ™s has been .
He is one of 120 new members and 23 international members recognised for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
The NAS is a private, non-profit institution in the US, established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
It recognises achievement in science by election to membership. Along with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine, it provides science, engineering and health policy advice to the US federal government and other organisations.
Last year, Professor Dongarra received the ACM Turing Award Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ“ often referred to as the Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ˜Nobel Prize of Computer ScienceÇà¹ÏÊÓƵ™ Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ“ for Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ˜pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decadesÇà¹ÏÊÓƵ™.
A Turing Fellow at Manchester, he is also a Distinguished Research Staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and University Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.