I worked in the Cornell Theory Center for 12 years, from 1987 until 1998. My last position in the Theory Center was leader of the Parallel Programming Tools team, with emphasis on deploying and promoting High Performance Fortran in the pursuit of scienfic programming.
My first position at the Theory Center was before it was formed. In the early eighties, Prof. Ken Wilson proposed that (a) the US should have a supercomputer program, and (b) Cornell should be one of the supercomputer sites. He had clout because he had just won a Nobel Prize in Physics. He also had "chops" because he and I had just finished a Fortran compiler for the highly parallel Floating Point Systems Array Processor, the first of many parallel systems to arrive at Cornell. Because of that compiler, I was called on to participate in the grant application process, and upon its success was incorporated early on into the Theory Center.
Most of my Theory Center presentations, reports, and papers
which had been stored
at http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Papers/ seem to have been
lost.