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Meet Featured ACM Distinguished Speaker Valentina Salapura
Valentina Salapura is an IBM Master Inventor and System Architect at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. In the Services Innovation Lab at IBM Research, she is helping IBM realize the value of cloud computing. She received the 2006 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for contributions to the architecture and implementation of the Blue Gene/L supercomputer and Quantum Chromodynamics. She is an IEEE Fellow.
