Tony Hey
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| Born | 1941 England, UK |
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| Nationality |  British |
| Institutions | Microsoft |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
Anthony John Grenville Hey CBE FREng FIET FInstP FBCS (born 1941) is a distinguished academic across a range of science and engineering fields. He was appointed Corporate Vice-President of Technical Computing at Microsoft on June 27, 2005.[1] Prior to this appointment, Hey led the UK's e-Science Programme from March 2001 to June 2005.
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[edit] Biography
Hey spent thirty years as an academic at University of Southampton, starting in 1960 as a particle physicist and "doing research on UNIX with tools like LaTeX."[2] He switched to computer science after fifteen years. While there, he served as Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science and Dean of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds an undergraduate degree in physics and a doctorate in theoretical physics, both from Oxford University.
Hey is the editor of the journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Among other scientific advisory boards in Europe and the United States, he is a member of the Global Grid Forum Advisory Committee.
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Hey was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the British Computer Society, the Institute of Physics and the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
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- The New Quantum Universe
- Einstein's Mirror
- Feynman Lectures on Computation (ISBN 0140284516)
- Feynman and Computation
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[edit] See also
- John Taylor
- Malcolm Atkinson
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| NAME | Hey, Tony |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hey, Anthony |
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| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | England |
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