Awards and Honors

  • Member, National Academy of Engineering
  • Crick-Jacobs Senior Fellow, Salk Institute, La Jolla (2005-present)
  • Harry E. Gruber Chair in Computer Science and Telecommunications, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD (2002 - present)
  • Added to University of Missouri Notable Alumni Wall 2010
  • CENIC 2009 Innovation Award for Experimental/Development Applications, Project GreenLight [with Tom DeFanti and Greg Hidley]
  • Listed as one of 30 Notable Graduate Alumni of the University of Missouri (2009)
  • Australian-American Leadership Dialog Scholar, October 2008.
  • R Systems, a company in Urbana, IL, names their supercomputer 'R Smarr' after Larry Smarr 2008
  • Honorary Ph.D. "Doctor of Science Honoris Causa", University of Missouri at Columbia May 17, 2008
  • USC Annenberg Fellow, May 2006 - 2008
  • CENIC 2006 Innovation Award for Experimental/Development Applications, iGrid2005 [with Maxine Brown and Tom DeFanti]
  • IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for distributed computing systems achievements 2006
  • ESRI Lifetime Achievement Award 2006
  • Telluride Tech Festival Honoree 2005
  • 2002 Technology Marshall in the 45h Annual La Jolla Christmas Parade and Holiday Festival
  • San Diego 2002 Headliner of the Year, Technology Category, San Diego Press Club
  • Named Swanlund Chaired Professor, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000)
  • Champaign County Most Valuable Citizen Award, Champaign County Chamber of Commerce (1998)
  • National Academy of Engineering, Section 5 (Computer Science and Engineering) (1995)
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)
  • Listed in Fortune Magazine, Special Issue, Spring/Summer 1991, "The New Century" in the article "Twenty Five Who Help The U. S. Win"
  • Fellow, American Physical Society (1991)
  • Franklin Institute's Delmer S. Fahrney Gold Medal for Leadership in Science or Technology (1990)
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award, College of Arts and Science, University of Missouri at Columbia, 1985 (2nd recipient)
  • Included in the 1984 Esquire "Register of Outstanding Americans Under Age 40" (272 listed)
  • Max-Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics Fellowship (summers 1982 and 1983)
  • Beckman Fellow (1980 - 1982)
  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1980 - 1984)
  • Junior Fellow, Harvard University (1976 - 1979)
  • NSF International Travel Grant (1974)
  • Lane Scholar (1973 - 1974) - outstanding work in classical physics at University of Texas
  • National Science Foundation Fellow (1970 - 1973)
  • Woodrow Wilson Independent Study Award (1971) - top 10% of Woodrow Wilson Fellows
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1970)