Carl Kesselman

{{Short description|American computer scientist}}

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Carl Kesselman is an American computer scientist specializing in grid computing technologies.{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/business/supercomputing-and-business-move-closer.html |title= Supercomputing and Business Move Closer |author= Steve Lohr |date= February 19, 2002 |work= The New York Times |accessdate= December 21, 2016 }}

This term was developed by him and professor Ian Foster in the book The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure. He and Foster are winners of the British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal for their grid work.

He is institute fellow at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute and a professor in the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, at the University of Southern California.

Kesselman co-led the Globus Toolkit project, core technologies for computational grid systems in the areas of resource location, resource allocation, computer security, data communication, and data access.

He described a Globus testbed called GUSTO in 1997.{{Cite web |title= Supercomputing on Demand |work= USC News |date= January 19, 1998 |author= Eric Mankin |url= https://news.usc.edu/10899/Supercomputing-on-Demand/ |accessdate= December 21, 2016 }}

He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2017{{citation|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2017/december/fellows-2017|title=ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|date=December 11, 2017|accessdate=December 11, 2017}} and was awarded (with Ian Foster) the IEEE Computer Society Harry H Goode Memorial Award{{citation|url=https://www.computer.org/press-room/2020-news/foster-and-kesselman-to-receive-2020-ieee-cs-society-goode-memorial-award|title=Dr. Ian Foster and Dr. Carl Kesselman to Receive 2020 IEEE Computer Society Harry H. Goode Memorial Award|publisher=IEEE Computer Society|date=March 3, 2020|accessdate=March 16, 2021}} (2020) and IEEE Internet Award (2023).

He received a PhD in computer science from UCLA in 1991.{{cite web |title=The face behind the Grid |url=https://www.scientific-computing.com/feature/face-behind-grid |website=Scientific American |access-date=11 October 2022}}