William E. Johnston

Bio

William E. Johnston is a Senior Scientist and Dept. Head of the US Dept. of Energy, Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) (www.es.net) in the Computational Research Division of the Computing Sciences Directorate of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

His long time research interests include high-speed, wide area network based, distributed systems, widely distributed computational and data "Grids," Public-Key Infrastructure based security and authorization systems, and use of the global Internet to enable remote access to scientific, analytical, and medical instrumentation.

Recent professional activities have included Dept. Head of the Distributed Systems Dept. in the Computational Research Division, and Principal Investigator for several US Dept. of Energy, Office of Science projects related to these topics. He is also co-founder (with Ian Foster and Charlie Catlett) of the Grid Forum (which merged with the European Grid Forum to form the Global Grid Forum, and has since merged with the equivalent industry group to become the Open Grid Forum).

Mr. Johnston has worked in the field of computing for more than 35 years, and has taught computer science at the under graduate and graduate levels. He has a Masters Degree in Mathematics and Physics from San Francisco State University. He may be reached at wej@es.net. For more information see www.dsd.lbl.gov/~wej.

Fall, 2007