Larry Smarr holds the title of Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) in UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. He was previously Founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) from 2000-2020, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1985-2000, and the National Computational Science Alliance from 1997-2000. In 2006 he received the IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for his lifetime achievements in distributed computing systems and in 2014 the Golden Goose Award. He served on the NASA Advisory Council to 4 NASA Administrators, was chair of the NASA Information Technology Infrastructure Committee, and the NSF Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, and for 8 years he was a member of the NIH Advisory Committee to the NIH Director, serving 3 directors.