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Reed Named to Illinois VentureTECH Advisory Committee

released July 21, 2000

Alliance Director Dan Reed was recently named a member of the Illinois VentureTECH Advisory Committee by Illinois Gov. George Ryan. The 27-member committee will advise Ryan on the future direction of the state's $1.9 billion VentureTECH technology initiative and explore new areas for overall development of technology initiatives.

Reed was named director of the Alliance in April and is also head of the computer science department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Reed is a member of several national collaborations, including the Center for Grid Application Development Software, the Department of Energy (DOE) Next Generation Internet Initiative, and the DOE Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative. He also serves on the advisory committee of the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and on the board of directors of the Computing Research Association.

Other members of the advisory committee include UI President James Stukel and Yoon Chang, interim director of Argonne National Laboratory. For a full list of the committee members, see http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Headlines/00Headlines/000720.VentureTECH.html.

 

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