While at AT&T, his work ranged from projects in security, distributed and parallel computing and, more recently, the economics of e-commerce and electronic publishing. Those more recent interests have prompted him to acquiesce to a headhunter's call soliciting him for the Minnesota position. “My research horizons have been getting broader,” he says. “I have been getting interested in scientific policy and copyrights among other things.”
At the university, where he will also serve as assistant vice-president for research, Odlyzko will supervise 150 technical people — most of whom will be postdocs, graduate students and visiting fellows. The centre has 14 faculty positions, half of which have been filled. The centre will house the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, the Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, and the Telecommunications and Advanced Networking Laboratory. Its research focuses include telecommunications and advanced networking, software storage and Internet technologies, data storage and visualization, electronic commerce and digital publishing, bioinformatics and computational biology, among others.
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