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Tony Hey is now Corporate Vice-President, Technical Computing at Microsoft. Before this he was Professor of Computation at the University of Southampton and had been both Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science and Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at Southampton. From March 31st 2001 until June 2005, he was Director of the UK's national e-Science Programme. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the British Computer Society, the Institute of Physics and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). Professor Hey is European editor of the journal 'Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience' and has been on the organising committees of many international conferences. He is also a member of the Global Grid Forum Advisory Committee and of numerous scientific advisory boards at both national and project level in both Europe and the USA.
Professor Hey has worked in the field of parallel and distributed computing since the early 1980's and has published over 100 papers. He was instrumental in the development of the MPI message-passing standard and of the Genesis Distributed Memory Parallel Benchmark suite. His personal research interests are concerned with performance engineering for Grid applications but he also retains an interest in explorations of quantum computing and quantum information theory.
Tony Hey is also the author of two popular science books: 'The New Quantum Universe' and 'Einstein's Mirror'. He also edited the 'Feynman Lectures on Computation' for publication, and produced a companion volume entitled 'Feynman and Computation'.