Larry Smarr became founding director in 2000 of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a University of California San Diego/UC Irvine partnership. He holds the Harry E. Gruber professorship in the Jacobs School's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. At Calit2, Larry has continued to drive major developments in information infrastructure - including the Internet, Web, scientific visualization, virtual reality, and global telepresence - begun during his previous 15 years as founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Larry served as PI on the NSF's OptIPuter grant and is currently PI on the Moore Foundation's CAMERA microbial metagenomics projects, as well as co-PI on the NSF GreenLight Project. He was a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee for President Clinton and served until 2005 on the advisory committee to the director of the National Institutes of Health and the NASA advisory council. Larry served on Governor Schwarzenegger's California Broadband Taskforce in 2007. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006, Larry received the IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for his lifetime achievements in distributed computing systems.

You can follow Larry at http://twitter.com/lsmarr and on his lifestreaming portal at http://lsmarr.calit2.net.