Dan Reed

Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Extreme Computing Group (XCG)

I head Microsoft's Extreme Computing Group (XCG), which unifies Microsoft research and incubation efforts to develop radical new approaches to computing hardware, and reliable, secure exascale software systems.

The XCG charter is to rethink the nature of computing at extreme scale, from alternative, quantum computing models, through the transformative effects of manycore parallelism on programming systems and architectures, through massive cloud computing infrastructure designs that drive consumer, business and social applications.

Previously, I was the founding director of the Renaissiance Computing Institute (RENCI) at the University of North Carolina, the Chancellor's Eminent Professor, and Senior Advisor for Strategy and Innovation. Before that, I was head of the Department of Computer Science, Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor, and Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois.

I have served as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and chair of the Computing Research Association (CRA).

See http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/reed/ for details on me at Microsoft.