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How to Increase the Half-Life of a Scientist/Engineer
Myron Ginsberg

Topic: Soft Skills
Audience: All audiences

Description:
This presentation focuses on a dozen strategies to help scientists/engineers survive professionally and flourish during good times and bad times in large and small organizations.

Prerequisites:
The audience for this talk should be scientists/

History:
I have give this talk at Lucent Technologies in 1996 and at several universities while being an ACM and SIAM National speaker.

Last change: Sep 16, 2006 04:26:24 PM

The Speaker: Myron Ginsberg

Contact Organization: HPC Research & Education
Location: Michigan
Phone: 248-477-7018
Email: m.ginsberg@ieee.org
Will travel: Anywhere
Payment required: Fees + Travel
Compensation required: 1500 per day

Bio:
Myron Ginsberg has over twenty-five years of experience in high-performance computing (HPC) in government research labs (U.S. Army Research Lab, NASA Electronics Research Center, NASA Langley Research Center), academia (U of Iowa, Southern Methodist U, U of Michigan), and private industry (General Motors Research, EDS High-Performance Computing Group, HPC automotive consultant). He has a B.A. and M. A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in computer science. Dr. Ginsberg has served as a national speaker on high-performance computing for ACM, SIAM, IEEE, ASME, Sigma Xi, and SAE. He is the first person in the world automotive industry to be honored as an ACM Fellow for "Pioneering and Sustained Contributions to Supercomputing Research and Its Application to the Automotive Industry in addition to Distinguished Teaching and Service in High-Performance Computing." He has published extensively in the open HPC literature and has edited four volumes on supercomputing for SAE.

All talks can be given to both general and technical audiences; available topics in HPC can be tailored to the needs of a specific audience.

Last change: Aug 31, 2006 02:53:47 PM

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