Michael McRobbie
Michael McRobbie AO | |
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![]() McRobbie in 2016 | |
3rd University Chancellor of Indiana University | |
Assumed office July 1, 2021[1] | |
Preceded by | Kenneth Gros Louis |
18th President of Indiana University | |
In office July 1, 2007[2] – June 30, 2021 | |
Preceded by | Adam Herbert |
Succeeded by | Pamela Whitten |
Personal details | |
Born | Michael Alexander McRobbie October 11, 1950 American |
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Alma mater | University of Queensland Richard Routley |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Philosophy |
Sub-discipline | Artificial intelligence, automated theorem proving |
Institutions | |
Michael Alexander McRobbie
Early life and education
McRobbie is an Australian. Born on October 11, 1950, in
Career
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After a postdoctoral fellowship in philosophy, he founded an automated reasoning project, the ANU Centre for Information Science Research and the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Computational Systems.[11]
McRobbie was a 1988 Fulbright Scholar in Computer Science from The Australian National University to the Argonne National Laboratory.
In 1997 he became the first vice president for information technology at Indiana University.[13] The network operations center for the Abilene Network was established at IU under his direction,[14] and the Pervasive Technology Laboratories were established with a $29.9 million grant from the Lilly Endowment in 1999.[15]
McRobbie was principal investigator of a project sponsored by the US National Science Foundation to connect US and Asian national research and education networks called TransPAC.[16] The state-funded $5.3 million I-Light project connected all campuses of the IU system with
McRobbie served as interim
By September 2006, the then president of Indiana University, Adam Herbert, announced he wanted to leave office before July 2008.[23] On March 1, 2007 McRobbie was selected as IU's 18th president and took office on July 1, 2007.[24] He served on the board of directors for ChaCha (the Indiana-based search engine). Some press were critical of a deal that used IU librarians as "guides", although McRobbie resigned from the board before becoming president of the University.[25][26]
McRobbie has served on the board of trustees for Internet2 since 2009, and was named chair of the board starting in 2012.[27] In 2012 he announced a new supercomputer called Big Red II at IU.[28] Although other universities operate larger computers, by some measures this Cray XK7 was expected to be the largest for use by a single US university and not a consortium or national resource.[29] The original Big Red computer was installed in 2006.[30]
On August 14, 2020, McRobbie announced that he planned to retire at the end of June 2021 after 14 years as the head of the university and that a search committee was being formed to find his replacement.[31]
Personal life
While still an undergraduate at
McRobbie has three children and three stepchildren. His second wife, Laurie Burns McRobbie, was born in Michigan and worked as a technologist for 20 years. Both of them had been widowed before they married in 2005.[33]
Laurie McRobbie was the executive director of member and partner relations for Internet2, and an
After living in Indiana for 13 years, McRobbie became a US citizen in October 2010 while still retaining his original Australian citizenship.[35][36]
Honors and awards
McRobbie was made a
References
- ^ "About". Office of the University Chancellor. Indiana University. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
- ^ "2009-10 IU Factbook" (PDF). Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 10, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
- ^ Bloomington Herald-Times. November 16, 2003.
- ^ "History of IU Presidents". Archived from the original on December 25, 2009. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ^ "Pamela Whitten named 19th president of Indiana University: A visionary scholar and accomplished educator, Whitten will lead one of the nation's leading research universities starting July 1". Indiana University. April 16, 2021.
- ^ "About". Office of the University Chancellor. Indiana University. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
- ^ Lai, Eric (October 15, 2007). "The Grill: Michael McRobbie on how to go from CIO to Indiana U's president". Computer World. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- OCLC 222143545.
- ISBN 978-3-540-16780-8.
- S2CID 118082271.
- ^ a b c Chubb, Ian (July 16, 2010). "Citation for an Honorary Degree". Australian National University.
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- ^ "IU provost honored as founder of Asia Pacific Advanced Network". Indiana University. July 27, 2006. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ^ "Abilene Gets 10-Gig Upgrade". Light Reading. February 17, 2003. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ^ "Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University achieve economic development milestone". Indiana University. June 19, 2013. Archived from the original on December 28, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
- ^ "TransPAC Annual Report 2001–2002" (PDF). March 27, 2003. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
- ^ "$25.1M federal stimulus grant to connect Ivy Tech campuses to I-Light network". February 19, 2010. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
- ^ "International TransPAC2 Inaugurated". HPCwire. April 8, 2005. Archived from the original on June 20, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ^ "METACyt Initiative Retrospective" (PDF). March 4, 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ^ Hupp, Staci (February 28, 2007). "IU provost to succeed Herbert". The Indianapolis Star. Archived from the original on March 3, 2007. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
- ^ "IU Fact Book 2008-09" (PDF). Indiana University. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 10, 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2009.
- ^ "IU Partners With University in Beijing to Enhance Internet". Inside Indiana Business. July 10, 2013. Archived from the original on July 14, 2006. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
- ^ "Presidential Search". Indiana University. Archived from the original on September 7, 2006. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
- ^ "IU Trustees select Michael A. McRobbie as 18th president". Indiana University. March 1, 2007. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
- ^ Faulker, Tim (October 12, 2007). "Indiana University and ChaCha's Scott Jones have same idea". Gawker. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- Bloomington Herald-Times. Archived from the originalon June 20, 2013. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ^ "IU President Michael McRobbie to Become Chairman of Internet2 Board". Indiana University. August 11, 2011. Archived from the original on August 16, 2011. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- Bloomington Herald-Times.
- ^ Hachman, Mark (April 29, 2013). "Indiana U. Inaugurates Most Powerful U.S. University Supercomputer". Slash Dot. Archived from the original on May 3, 2013. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
- ^ Morgan, Timothy Prickett (October 10, 2012). "Hoosiers to get the world's fastest academic super: Alley-oop for privately paid for petaflops". The Register. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
- ^ "IU President McRobbie to retire next year after 14 years". Chicago Tribune. August 14, 2020.
- ^ "Andrea S. McRobbie Fellowship in Medieval History". Indiana University.
- ^ Andrews, Elisabeth (February 2012). "20 Questions for IU's President" (PDF). Bloomington Magazine. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ^ a b "Biography". Office of the President web site. Indiana University. Retrieved June 17, 2013.
- ^ "IU President McRobbie becomes U.S. citizen". Kokomo Perspective. October 12, 2010. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
- Chronicle of Higher Education.
- ^ "2010 Officer (AO) in the general division of the order of Australia" (PDF). Governor-General of Australia. 2010. p. 9.