Humans of AI3SD: Tony Hey

Hey, Tony and Pauli, Michelle , Frey, Jeremy G., Kanza, Samantha and Niranjan, Mahesan (eds.) (2022) Humans of AI3SD: Tony Hey (Humans-of-AI3SD, 29) University of Southampton 8pp. (doi:10.5258/SOTON/AI3SD0243).

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This interview forms part of our Humans of AI3SD Series.

In this Humans of AI4SD interview he discusses his long career, converting scientists to Microsoft’s tools, the two dramatic developments in the past 10 years, the role of commercial cloud resources, advice for early career researchers, and much more. . .

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Published date: 11 August 2022

Additional Information: Professor Tony Hey is the Chief Data Scientist at the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Tony’s original background was in physics, completing his undergraduate degree and subsequent post-docs at the University of Oxford in the UK and then CalTech and CERN in the USA. He worked at the University of Southampton in the physics department originally before transferring to the electronics and computer science department where he created a leading research group in parallel computing. He was the director of the UK’s e-Science initiative (2001-2005) and then became the Vice President in Microsoft Research afterwards.

Keywords: AI3SD, Interview

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