the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), linking departments and researchers at UCSD and UC Irvine. Smarr served as Institute Director of Calit2 from its founding until his retirement in 2020. As part of the work of Calit2, he is Principal Investigator on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project, an "optical backplane for planetary scale distributed computing" and the CAMERA Project, a high-performance computing resource for genomic research. He attended the Beyond Belief symposium in November 2006 and presented at the 2010 and 2012 Life Extension Conferences. Since 2012, Larry Smarr has been engaged in a computer-aided study of his own body. Awards and honors Larry Smarr has received numerous honors and awards, including: Member of the National Academy of Engineering Fellow of the American Physical Society Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Franklin Institute's Delmer S. Fahrney Medal for Leadership in Science or Technology (1990) Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology (2005) Golden Goose Award for his work involving black holes and supercomputering. (2014) Member of the San Diego Science Festival's Nifty Fifty, a collection of the most influential scientists in the San Diego area. References Living people 21st-century American physicists Physicists from Missouri Scientists from Missouri Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences University of Missouri alumni University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni Harvard University staff Fellows of the American Physical Society 1948 births