SDSC Director Michael Norman Named to Federal Task Force for Advancing Artificial Intelligence

SDSC Director and Distinguished Professor of Physics Michael Norman is a member of the NAIRR Task Force. Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and a Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego, Michael Norman has been appointed to the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Task Force. This initiative announced recently by the Biden administration supports AI researchers' access to federal data in order to keep the U.S. at the forefront of emerging technology. "UC San Diego's faculty have a history of being called to contribute significantly to our nation's thought leadership on a variety of policy, economic, scientific and social issues," said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. "Professor Norman's expertise in the computer simulation of astronomical phenomena using supercomputers, and the development of the numerical methods to carry them out, will provide the NAIRR taskforce first-hand knowledge to better understand how researchers collaboratively use data analysis and cloud computing in their fields." According to the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office, the NAIRR is envisioned as a shared computing and data infrastructure to provide AI researchers and students compute resources and high-quality data, along with appropriate educational tools and user support.