Presenter

Kate Keahey is one of the pioneers of infrastructure cloud computing. She created and lead the development of the Nimbus project, recognized as the first open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service implementation, and engages in many application projects popularizing the use of the cloud computing platform in science. She also leads the Chameleon project, a distributed experimental testbed for cloud computing research. Kate is a scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and a Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago.