Tony Hey

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Anthony John Grenville Hey CBE FREng FIET FInstP FBCS (born 1941) is a distinguished academic across a range of science and engineering fields. He was appointed Corporate Vice-President of Technical Computing at Microsoft on June 27, 2005. [ [http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/may05/05-17HeyPR.mspx Microsoft Names Tony Hey Corporate Vice President for Technical Computing: Hey brings over 25 years of experience in concurrent computing to Microsoft’s efforts to deepen collaboration with top scientists and researchers ] ] Prior to this appointment, Hey led the UK's e-Science Programme from March 2001 to June 2005.

Biography

Hey spent thirty years as an academic at University of Southampton, starting in 1960 as a particle physicist and "doing research on UNIX with tools like LaTeX." [ [http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/12/conversation-with-microsofts-tony-hey.html Open and Shut?: A Conversation with Microsoft's Tony Hey ] ] He switched to computer science after fifteen years . While there, he served as Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science and Dean of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds an undergraduate degree in physics and a doctorate in theoretical physics, both from Oxford University.

Hey is the editor of the journal "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience". Among other scientific advisory boards in Europe and the United States, he is a member of the Global Grid Forum Advisory Committee.

Awards

Hey was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the British Computer Society, the Institute of Physics and the Institution of Electrical Engineers and was a Harkness Fellow [http://research.microsoft.com/~tonyhey/] .

Publications

* "The New Quantum Universe"
* "Einstein's Mirror"
* "Feynman Lectures on Computation" (ISBN 0140284516)
* "Feynman and Computation"

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External links

* [http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2007/02/tony_hey_visits_nature_1.html Tony Hey visits Nature]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/tonyhey/default.mspx Tony Hey: Corporate Vice President of External Research, Microsoft Inc.]

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