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Other Star Performers

Dennis Davino, Cypress
Richard Weinberg, USC
John Avakian
Ed Johanson
Radhika Mysore, UCSD
Tom DeFanti, UCSD/Calit2
Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA
Rich Wolski, UCSB
Steve Vogt, UCSB
Shaya Fainman, UCSB
Tim Calhoon, CCC Tech Ctr.
Brian Shepard, USC
John Orcutt, UCSD/SIO
David Lassner, U Hawaii
Amin Vahdat, UCSD
Blaine Morrow, CCC Confer
Holger Schmidt, UCSC
Paul Wright, CITRIS
Lee Thompson, CSU EB
Ruzena Bajcsy, UCB
Laurin Herr, Pacific Interface
G. P. Li, Calit2@UCI
Lee Belarmino, SJ Delta Coll.
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, UCSB
Kevin Patrick, UCSD
Roger Bales, UCM
Liang Feng, Caltech
Persis Drell, Stanford/SLAC
Persis Drell
SLAC Page 		[Persis Drell Picture]
Among the most highly network-dependent of the sciences is high-energy physics, with researchers far and wide in need of accessing not only the few large-scale existing accelerator facilities but also the enormous amounts of data that these facilities generate. Among these facilities is the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, founded in 1962 as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Since 2007, the directorship of SLAC has been held by Stanford University's Persis Drell. Drell has served in positions of increasing responsibility with SLAC since 2002 and was named as the laboratory's fourth director in December 2007. She is widely credited with having made SLAC one of the leading laboratories under the stewardship of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. During her tenure as director, SLAC moved from being a laboratory dedicated primarily to research in the area of high-energy physics to one that is now seen as a world leader in advancing discoveries in a number of scientific disciplines.