The director of BSC received the award at the prize-giving ceremony held at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya
The director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), Mateo Valero, has been awarded the ‘Innovation and Science’ Prize at the second edition of the Premios Vanguardia 2024 gala, which was held at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya in Barcelona to celebrate the 143rd anniversary of the newspaper La Vanguardia.
The BSC Director received the award from the Minister of Industry, Jordi Hereu, in a ceremony attended by the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Salvador Illa, and the Mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, among others. In his speech, Valero paid tribute to the entire BSC team and stressed the importance of education and science in ensuring the country's progress.
About Mateo Valero
The director of BSC holds the three most important supercomputing awards worldwide: the Eckert-Mauchly Prize in Computer Architecture, awarded by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), as well as the Seymour Cray Prize in Supercomputing and the Charles Babbage Prize in Parallel Computers, both awarded by the IEEE.
He has also been awarded two national research prizes (Julio Rey Pastor, in 2001, and Leonardo Torres Quevedo, in 2006) and is a member of ten scientific academies.
For his significant contributions, he is considered one of the most important contributors to Computer Architecture in the last 25 years in Europe. He has published approximately 700 articles, has collaborated in the organisation of more than 300 international conferences and has given more than 600 lectures.
Mateo has eleven Honoris Causa awards. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Chalmers University of Technology, University of Belgrade, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, University of Veracruz, University of Zaragoza, University Complutense of Madrid, University of Cantabria, University of Murcia, Doctor Honoris Causa elect of the University of Granada, Doctor Honoris Causa of CINVESTAV and of the Cristobal Colon University.
He is the favorite son of his town, Alfamén (Zaragoza) and in 2005, the local school was named CEIP Mateo Valero in his honor.
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