Larry Brandt is a Program Director in the Information Integration & Informatics cluster
within the Information and Intelligent Systems Division. Larry started in NSF as a management intern
in 1976 after completing his undergraduate degree in Anthropology at San Diego State University.
After several years as a Contracts and Grants Officer, he joined NSF's nascent Office of Advanced
Scientific Computing as a manager for supercomputing centers. In 1993 Larry completed a Masters in
Computer Science from the Whiting Engineering School at Johns Hopkins University with an emphasis
on telecommunications and internetworking.
In 1998 Larry initiated a program of collaborations between government agencies and the CS
research community that in eight years resulted in over 100 awards with total funding over $50M.
Larry's interests include high-end computing, e-governance, Federal IT policy and the impact of IT
on democracy, growth of community, and the political process. |
| Using REU supplemental funding, Larry funded the undergraduate software development at the
Illinois center of the first popular Web browser (Mosaic) and Web server (Apache). The former
lives on as Internet Explorer under a license to Microsoft. |
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