Arthur "Barney" Maccabe

Arthur "Barney" Maccabe, former computer science and mathematics division director at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a UArizona alumnus,  has been appointed the new director for the Institute for the Future of Data and Computing. This new transdisciplinary institute will bring together student and faculty researchers from colleges across campus, exploring solutions for collecting and making sense of big data. Prior to his tenure at Oak Ridge, he spent 26 years teaching computer science at the University of New Mexico. At UNM, Maccabe was the director of high-performance computing as well as chief information officer.