Background
Kennedy, Ken was born on August 12, 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Kenneth Wade and Audrey Ruth Kennedy.
Kennedy, Ken was born on August 12, 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Kenneth Wade and Audrey Ruth Kennedy.
Bachelor in Mathematics summa cum laude, Rice U., 1967; Master of Science in Mathematics, New York University, 1969; Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, New York University, 1971.
Assistant professor department mathematics science, Rice U., Houston, 1971-1976;
associate professor, Rice U., Houston, 1976-1980;
professor, Rice U., Houston, 1980-1984;
Noah Harding professor department computer science, Rice U., Houston, since 1985;
chairman computer science program committee, Rice U., Houston, 1982-1985;
department chairman computer science, Rice U., Houston, 1984-1988, 90-92;
director Computer and Information Technology Institute, Rice U., Houston, 1986-1992;
director Center for Research on Parallel Computation, Rice U., Houston, since 1989. Visiting professor computer science department Stanford University, 1985-1986. Vice president R.M. Thrall& Associations, Inc., 1974-1981, president, 1981-1993.
Member programming languages and implementation sub-area panel computer science and engineering research Div.Computer Research National Science Foundation, 1975-1977, member of advisory committee for computer research, 1984-1988, chairman, 1985-1987, advisory commission computer and information science and engineering, since 1995. Visiting scientist Space Shuttle Program Lead Office National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1975,Department Computer Science International Business Machines Corporation Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1978-1979, consultant, since 1979, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, since 1985. Visiting staff member computer division Los Alamos Science Laboratory, since 1977.
Member exec.com. CSNET, 1984-1986, computer science and telecommunication board, National Research Council, 1992-1994, member of commission physical science, mathematics and applications, 1995-1997. Co-chair advising committee high performance computin gand committee Indo. Technology and Next Generation Internet, since 1997.
Presenter numerous professor meetings. Director numerous masters theses, Doctor of Philosophy dissertations.
Board of directors Houston Society Performing Arts, since 1986, vice president artistic advisory, since 1987. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (W. Wallace McDowell award 1995), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (program com.SIGPLAN national conference 1982, 84, chairman program committee principles of programming languages conferences 1983, software system award committee 1983-1985, chairman 1984, chairman program committee Supercomputing 1992). Member Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics, National Academy Engineering, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.