Prof to serve on national computing panel

Thompson

President Bill Clinton has named a Mississippi State aerospace engineering professor to a panel that is working to improve the nation's high-performance computing capabilities.

Joe Thompson, a Giles Distinguished Professor at the university, joins nearly 20 others on the Advisory Committee on High-Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology, and the Next Generation Internet.

The committee began work in February on the Next Generation Internet Initiative announced by the president last year.

Thompson recently testified before Congress in support of NGI, a multi-agency effort that includes the Defense, Commerce and Energy departments, as well as NASA and the National Science Foundation.