Lawrence Snyderis a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. In his research, he studies parallel programming, which is using many computers to solve a single problem. He is the author of Fluency with Information Technology , and was the chairman of the National Research Council. Calvin Linis an associate professor of computer science at the University of Texas, Austin. His areas of research include compilers and languages for parallel computing, parallel performance analysis, and scientific computing.
Larry Snyder was the chairman of the National Research Council's (NRC) committee that issued the report, "Being Fluent with Information Technology." It is this NRC committee funded by the National Science Foundation that identified the three types of knowledge needed in Fluency. Larry received his BA in 1968 from the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. in 1973 at Carnegie Mellon. He taught at schools such as Yale, MIT, Harvard, and Syndey University before settling down at the University of Washington in 1983, where he is currently a professor of computer science and engineering.
