BACKGROUND:
Dave Cooper's Texan. He's anecdotal. With a master's degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford, and a PhD in Physics, he's genius in a plain brown wrapper.Dave Cooper, CIO and head of scientific computations at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, was honored in 2000 as one of the "Premier 100 Information Technology" leaders globally, and the only representative from the government sector.
While at NASA, Dave led the computational efforts that put a man on the moon. Now at Livermore he's building the world's fastest computers to simulate nuclear weapons, in a race with Moore's Law to reach 100-T-Flops (trillion floating operations per second) in the next three years.
Dave's also served eight years for Bill Clinton on the President's Information Technology Council, since February 1997 as co-chair of the subcommittee on High Performance Computing and Communications.
Dave has been speaking in major DMAs. He offers a futuristic a look at the improvements in area like global climate forecasting, aircraft design and drug approval that could result as computers reach 100-TRILLION calculations per second.
CONTACT: David Schwoegler 925-422-6900 newsguy@llnl.gov