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Committee and Panel Members Biographies
COMMITTEE FOR THE REVIEW OF NASA'S
PIONEERING REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY
(PRT) PROGRAM
RAYMOND S. COLLADAY, Chair, is a senior indus-
try executive with extensive experience and demon-
strated success in exploiting technology leverage,
structuring international alliances, fostering creativity
and innovation, and motivating organizations to
achieve goals. Dr. Colladay is a retired corporate of-
ficer of Lockheed Martin Corporation and formerly
held positions as president of Lockheed Martin Astro-
nautics, agency director of DARPA, and associate ad-
ministrator for aeronautics and space technology at
NASA. Currently he serves as president and CEO of
RC Space Enterprises, Inc., in Colorado and as a senior
associate of Burdeshaw & Associates, Ltd., in the
Washington, D.C., area, providing management sup-
port, business strategy, and technical services to client
organizations. Dr. Colladay is a fellow of the Ameri-
can Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
and of the American Astronautical Society. He has also
served in various capacities on several NRC panels and
boards, including chair of the Committee on Advanced
Space Technology and member of the Committee on
the Space Station, the Aeronautics and Space Engineer-
ing Board, and, most recently, the Committee on the
Future of the U.S. Aerospace Infrastructure and Aero-
space Engineering Disciplines to Meet the Needs of
the Air Force and Department of Defense.
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BENJAMIN BUCHBINDER has more than 40 years
of experience in the development and application of
risk assessment methods, in the use of quantitative
methods to support management decision making re-
lated to safety and programmatic risk, and in the com-
munication of risk assessment results. While working
in reliability analysis for the General Electric Company
on the Apollo program at Daytona Beach in the 1960s,
he served as an adjunct assistant professor at the Uni-
versity of Florida, teaching graduate-level courses in
probability and statistical methods. At the National
Bureau of Standards (now NIST) Center for Fire
Research, he applied decision analysis and risk assess-
ment methods to the analysis of fire risk and the devel-
opment of fire safety standards. He was chief, Method-
ology and Data Branch, in the Office of Research of
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The NRC
developed the modern approach to the probabilistic
assessment of risk in the operation of engineered sys-
tems. As manager of the Risk Management Program,
Office of Safety and Mission Assurance, NASA Head-
quarters, he pioneered NASA's probabilistic approach
to risk assessment in the post-Challenger era. He di-
rected the initial probabilistic risk assessments for the
space shuttle and presented workshops on risk assess-
ment processes and consulted on risk assessment meth-
ods for NASA programs at most of the field centers. In
1994, he joined the Futron Corporation, where he was
responsible for business development and project man-
agement in probabilistic risk assessment and program-
matic risk management until 1997.
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LEONARD H. CAVENY, an aerospace consultant,
retired in 1997 from the Ballistic Missile Defense Or-
ganization (BMDO), Science and Technology Direc-
torate, where he had served as director since August
1995. While in the Strategic Defense Initiative Organi-
zation (SDIO, which later became BMDO) from 1985
to 1997, Dr. Caveny initiated and managed fundamen-
tal research and development of high-risk technology.
He was the program manger for four space flight ex-
periments on solar power, electric propulsion, and UV
signatures. In 1984 and 1985, Dr. Caveny was a staff
specialist in the Office of the Deputy Undersecretary
for Research and Advanced Technology, at the Penta-
gon. Between 1980 and 1984, he was program man-
ager for energy conversion in the Air Force Office of
Scientific Research (AFOSR), Aerospace Sciences Di-
rectorate, Washington, D.C., where he managed the
basic research programs on space propulsion, rocketry,
and reacting flow diagnostics. Between 1969 and 1980,
he was a senior member of the professional staff in the
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences,
Princeton University. Dr. Caveny's areas of expertise
include space propulsion and power, high-temperature
materials, sensors, and space systems. Dr. Caveny
served as chair of the National Research Council Panel
to Review Air Force Office of Scientific Research
(AFOSR) Proposals in Propulsion in 2003. As an aero-
space consultant, his present involvements include ad-
vanced solid rocket propulsion systems, electric pro-
pulsion, energetic materials, combustion, and ignition
in high-speed flows. He has authored over 50 refereed
technical articles and received 11 U.S. patents. He is a
fellow of AIAA and recipient of the AIAA Wyld Pro-
pulsion Medal.
SERGIO GUARRO is the director of the Risk Plan-
ning and Assessment Office at the Aerospace Corpora-
tion. The office provides technical expertise and assis-
tance to a broad spectrum of Air Force and NASA
launch vehicle and spacecraft programs in the areas of
probabilistic risk assessment, risk management, and
reliability engineering. Dr. Guarro has 30 years of pro-
fessional engineering experience, with more than 20
years spent on both the research and application sides
of risk assessment, systems logic modeling, fault diag-
nosis, and reliability engineering. Before joining the
Aerospace Corporation, Dr. Guarro was a project
leader with the Nuclear Systems Safety Program at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. During his
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career, he has had appointments and recognition in
academia, as an international Fulbright scholar at the
University of California, Berkeley, and a research as-
sociate and lecturer at the University of California, Los
Angeles, and also in government institutions, as a fel-
low of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In the last
13 years he has been specifically working in space sys-
tems risk management and mission assurance, making
key contributions to major programs and missions such
as the NASA Cassini mission and the U.S. Air Force
Titan launch vehicle and Evolved Expendable Launch
Vehicle (EELV) programs.
DAVID J. KASIK is a Boeing technical fellow. He is
the geometry and visualization architect for Boeing
Commercial Airlines. His responsibility extends
throughout the commercial airplane design, build, and
maintenance processes. He is currently bringing to the
factory applications based on wireless connectivity.
Recently, he acted as the technical architect for the
Single Glass project. Single Glass is a unified system
that makes over 1,000 applications available to 6,000
workstations in the Puget Sound area. The project re-
quired carefully designed system architecture to ensure
scalability and extensibility. As the geometry and visu-
alization architect, he routinely capitalizes on his user
interface and graphics background. He has been a key
developer of the underlying technology needed for 3D
graphics and to improve human-computer dialogue se-
quences through User Interface Management Systems.
In his role as exposition chair for advanced technology
exhibits for the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM) and the Special Interest Group in Computer
Graphics (SIGGRAPH), he has become familiar with a
broad range of innovative computing technology. He is
the chair of the Battelle Pacific Northwest National
Laboratories Information Technology Peer Review
Committee and a member of the Technical Advisory
Board of the Fraunhofer Center for Research in Com-
puter Graphics. He received a bachelor's degree in
quantitative studies from Johns Hopkins University and
a master's degree in computer science from the Uni-
versity of Colorado.
DIMITRI MAVRIS is Boeing Associate Professor for
Advanced Aerospace Systems Analysis, codirector of
NASA's University Research Engineering Technology
Institute (URETI) in Aeropropulsion and Power and
director of General Electric Aircraft Engine's Univer-
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sity Strategic Alliance (USA) Center for Robust De-
sign Methods and Optimization. He received his doc-
torate from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1988 in
the field of aerospace engineering, joining the faculty
of the School of Aerospace Engineering in 1995. Dr.
Mavris pioneered the Robust Design Simulation meth-
odology as well as a method for technology impact
forecasting (TIF), which led to the development of the
technology identification, evaluation, and selection
(TIES) methodology. All of these methodologies sup-
port decision making for complex system design. In
1998, Dr. Mavris worked with Boeing under the Boeing
A.D. Welliver Faculty Fellowship. He has 228 refer-
eed and conference publications and serves on many
national boards and committees, including as deputy
director for AIAA's Aircraft Technology, Integration
and Operations Group, chair of the AIAA's Aircraft
Design Technical Committee, editor of the Interna-
tional Society of Parametric Analysts' Journal of
Parametrics, and member of AIAA's Air Transporta-
tion and Operation Technology Committee and its Mis-
sile Systems Technical Committee. Dr. Mavris has sev-
eral significant accomplishments in the area of
multidisciplinary design, particularly in advanced
probabilistic design methodology. The bulk of this
work is focused on finding ways to account for uncer-
tainty in the design process and to produce robust de-
signs that are insensitive to changes in the design and/
or operational environment. Dr. Mavris is currently a
principal or coprincipal investigator of 24 grants worth
approximately $13.52 million.
DENNIS K. McBRIDE is president of the Potomac
Institute for Policy Studies, a Washington think tank
specializing in science and technology policy. Cur-
rently serving also as vice president for research (act-
ing), Dr. McBride continues to lead nationally focused
technical programs, including significant support to
DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, the National
Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sci-
ences, and private industry. Dr. McBride is also an ad-
junct research professor at the Krasnow Institute for
Advanced Study, George Mason University. He served
previously as executive director, Institute for Simula-
tion and Training, University of Central Florida, and
professor (with dual appointments in the Department
of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems,
College of Engineering and Computer Science, and in
the Department of Psychology, College of Arts and
Sciences). Dr. McBride completed a 20-year career at
the grade of captain, Medical Service Corps, as a naval
aerospace experimental psychologist and flight test
engineer. Captain McBride served at six Navy labora-
tories, as program officer for biomedical S&T at the
Office of Naval Research, and as program manager
(simulation technology) at the Defense Advanced
Projects Research Agency. Dr. McBride's formal edu-
cation includes enrollment at the University of Geor-
gia, University of Southern California, and the London
School of Economics. He earned a Ph.D., three master
of science degrees, and an MPA. Dr. McBride was a
summer scholar at the Santa Fe Institute. He holds
professional credentials from the Board of Certifica-
tion in Professional Ergonomics and in Professional
Modeling and Simulation. Dr. McBride is vice presi-
dent of the Policy Studies Organization, editor of the
Review of Policy Research, and is a member of edito-
rial boards, including the International Journal for
Human Computer Interaction and Human Nature Re-
view, as associate editor. Dr. McBride has received
numerous awards and military decorations, including
the Defense Superior Service Medal and the Legion of
Merit. Among his civilian awards is the L.P. Coombes
Medal, presented by the Australian Institution of Engi-
neers. He has published and presented more than 125
scientific papers, technical reports, and book chapters
in the fields of psychobiology, experimental psychol-
ogy, medical and pharmacological research, engineer-
ing science, operations research, complexity science,
political science, economics, and public policy.
TODD J. MOSHER is an assistant professor at Utah
State University (USU) in the mechanical and aero-
space engineering department. His research is in small
satellites and payloads, advanced space system con-
cepts, and new design methodologies. He teaches
courses in astrodynamics, propulsion, and space sys-
tem design. He joined USU in 2002 after serving as the
associate director of the Space Architecture Depart-
ment at the Aerospace Corporation. He has 14 years of
experience in space systems analysis, especially NASA
science missions and space transportation. Dr. Mosher
originated and led the development of a lunar Discov-
ery proposal, where he was responsible for both the
mission architecture and the organization of the gov-
ernment, industry, and academia team. He has partici-
pated in evaluation of many of NASA' s programs, in-
cluding Mars Scout, Mars Sample Return, Discovery,
New Millennium, Medium Explorers (MIDEX),
Europa Orbiter, Pluto Kuiper Belt mission, Earth Sci-
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ence System Pathfinder (ESSP), and Small Explorers
(SMEX). Dr. Mosher has also supported launch pro-
grams such as the Advanced Launch System, Atlas,
National Launch System, Space Shuttle, and Titan. He
also led many of Aerospace's efforts in small space-
craft design and was instrumental in creating new de-
sign and cost models reflecting the latest changes in
technology and management in the design of these
spacecraft. He also served as an instructor at UCLA,
teaching the courses Introduction to Space Technol-
ogy, Spacecraft Design, and Space Hardware Design.
JAMES ODOM recently retired as deputy group man-
ager and senior vice president of the Science Applica-
tions International Corporation (SAIC), Inc., Huntsville
Group. He currently works part-time with SAIC as a
consulting employee. Before coming to SAIC in 1994,
he was president and CEO of Applied Research for 5
years, immediately after retiring from NASA. Mr.
Odom served at NASA for 33 years and was directly
involved in several of NASA's major projects, includ-
ing the Hubble Space Telescope, the space shuttle, the
Apollo program, and the space station Freedom. Mr.
Odom's work with NASA began in an engineering
position with the U.S. Army' s rocket research and de-
velopment team at Redstone Arsenal; he was later
transferred to Marshall Space Flight Center. At
Marshall, Mr. Odom was actively involved in the de-
velopment of early satellites, unmanned space probes,
launch vehicles, and propulsion systems. He was then
assigned to lead the engineering design and testing for
the second stage of the Saturn V/Apollo lunar launch
vehicle. Thereafter he was selected to direct the devel-
opment of the space shuttle's external tank during its
initial design phase and saw it through its first six
launches. Mr. Odom also played a major role in the
development of the Hubble Space Telescope. He
capped his NASA career as associate administrator for
the space station Freedom.
LEE D. PETERSON is associate professor of aerospace
engineering sciences at the University of Colorado,
Boulder. He has been an associate professor or assis-
tant professor at the University of Colorado since 1991.
Dr. Peterson is also director of the McDonnell-Dou-
glas Aerospace Structural Dynamics and Control Labo-
ratory and is a member of the Center for Aerospace
Structures. From 1989 to 1991 Dr. Peterson was assis-
tant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue
University. Prior to his work at Purdue, Dr. Peterson
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was a member of the technical staff at Sandia National
Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He obtained
his S.B. (1982), S.M. (1983), and Ph.D. (1987) in aero-
nautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology. He has authored or coauthored over
100 publications in space structure mechanics, dynam-
ics, control, and design. His research interests are in
the development of large, lightweight precision space
structures for optical telescopes and interferometers.
This includes experimental and theoretical research in
the stability of structures and structural components at
nanometer scales of deformation.
JOSEPH B. REAGAN (NAE), an independent consult-
ant, is retired vice president and general manager of
research and development at Lockheed Martin Missiles
and Space and was a corporate officer of the Lockheed
Martin Corporation. Dr. Reagan, a member of the NAE,
has a strong background in defense technology devel-
opment, particularly in optics, electro-optics, informa-
tion software, guidance and control, electronics, and
materials. Dr. Reagan joined Lockheed as a scientist,
where he led the Space Instrumentation Group for 10
years and was responsible for the development and on-
orbit deployment of over 20 scientific payloads for
NASA and the DOD. His research interests included
space sensors, radiation belt and solar particles, nuclear
weapon effects, and the effects of radiation particles on
spacecraft systems. As general manager of the R&D
Division, he led over 750 scientists and engineers in
the development of advanced technologies in optics,
electro-optics, information software, cryogenics, guid-
ance and controls, electronics, and materials. Today,
Dr. Reagan is chairman of the board of Southwall Tech-
nologies, Incorporated, a high-technology company
specializing in the manufacturing of thin-film coatings
for high-performance residential, industrial, and auto-
motive windows. He is also a director on the board of
the Tech Museum of Innovation, where he is the chair-
man of the Exhibits Committee. He is involved in nu-
merous activities that foster the improvement of sci-
ence and mathematics education. Dr. Reagan is
currently vice chair of the Naval Studies Board.
CYNTHIA R. SAMUELSON is a senior fellow and
program manager at the Logistics Management Insti-
tute. In this role, she serves as researcher and technical
advisor for Information Technology studies and analy-
ses for federal organizations. She came to LMI follow-
ing retirement as principal director for information
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management at the Department of Defense and 3 years
in private industry. In total, she has more than 20 years
of experience in leading and managing complex public
and private organizations responsible for providing in-
formation technology services. In recognition of her
work, she has received numerous awards, including the
Secretary of Defense Medals for Meritorious Civilian
Service and Exceptional Civilian Service and the De-
partment of Transportation's Bronze Medal.
MARC SNIR has been the Michael Faiman and Saburo
Muroga Professor of Computer Science and head of
the Computer Science Department at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since the fall of 2001.
Until August 2001 he was a senior manager at the IBM
T.J. Watson Research Center, where he initiated and
led the IBM Blue Gene project. Previously, he led the
Scalable Parallel Systems research group and was re-
sponsible for major contributions to the IBM SP scal-
able parallel system: architecture, parallel operating
environment, message-passing libraries, tools, parallel
file system, parallel algorithms, and applications. Dr.
Snir is an ACM fellow and IEEE fellow. He is on the
editorial board of Parallel Processing Letters and A CM
Computing Surveys and serves as co-chair of the NRC' s
Committee to Study the Future of Supercomputing.
MICHAEL J. ZYDA is the director of the Modeling,
Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES) Insti-
tute, located at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS),
Monterey, California. He is also a professor in the De-
partment of Computer Science at NPS. Professor
Zyda's research interests include computer graphics,
large-scale, networked 3D virtual environments, agent-
based simulation, modeling human and organizational
behavior, interactive computer-generated story, com-
puter-generated characters, video production, entertain-
ment/defense collaboration, and modeling and simula-
tion. He is the principal investigator of the America's
Army PC game funded by the Assistant Secretary of
the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. Profes-
sor Zyda was a member of the National Research
Council's Committee on Virtual Reality Scientific and
Technological Challenges and was the chair of the
National Research Council's Computer Science and
Telecommunications Board Committee on Modeling
and Simulation: Linking Entertainment and Defense.
From that report for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of
the Army for Research and Technology, Professor
Zeta drafted the operating plan and research agenda
for the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT).
Professor Zyda began his career in computer graphics
in 1973 as part of an undergraduate research group, the
Senses Bureau, at the University of California, San
Diego. Professor Zyda received a B.A. in bioengineer-
ing from the University of California, San Diego, in La
Jolla in 1976, an M.S. in computer science from the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1978, and a
D.Sc. in computer science from Washington Univer-
sity, St. Louis, in 1984.
PANEL ON COMPUTING, INFORMATION, AND
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
MICHAEL J. ZYDA, Panel Chair (see biography
above)
WILLIAM COHEN was a senior research scientist
with the Center for Automated Learning and Discov-
ery at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his
bachelor's degree in computer science from Duke Uni-
versity in 1984 and a Ph.D. in computer science from
Rutgers University in 1990. From 1990 to 2000 Dr.
Cohen worked at AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Labs-
Research. Dr. Cohen is currently an associate editor for
the journal Machine Learning, has served as the action
editor for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Re-
search, co-organized the 1994 International Machine
Learning Conference, and has served on more than 20
program committees or advisory committees. Dr.
Cohen' s research interests include information integra-
tion and machine learning, particularly text categoriza-
tion and learning from large data sets. He holds four
patents in these areas and is the author of more than 50
refereed publications.
DELORES M. ETTER (NAE) joined the electrical en-
gineering faculty at the United States Naval Academy
on August 1, 2001, as the first recipient of the Office of
Naval Research Distinguished Chair in Science and
Technology. From June 1998 through July 2001, Dr.
Etter served as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
for Science and Technology. In that position she was
responsible for the Defense Science and Technology
strategic planning, budget allocation, and program ex-
ecution and evaluation for the $9 billion per year DOD
science and technology program. She was also respon-
sible for the Defense Modeling and Simulation Orga-
nization, the DOD High Performance Computing Mod-
ernization Office, and for technical oversight of the
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Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded re-
search and development center (FFRDC). Prior to that
she was a tenured professor in electrical/computer en-
gineering at the University of Colorado for 9 years
and at the University of New Mexico for 10 years. She
also spent a year at Stanford University as a visiting
professor in the Information Systems Laboratory of the
Electrical Engineering Department. Her academic
background includes experience as associate vice presi-
dent for academic affairs at the University of New
Mexico. She received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering
from the University of New Mexico in 1979 and M.S.
and B.S. degrees in mathematics from Wright State
University in 1972 and 1970, respectively.
MARY JEAN HARROLD is the NSF ADVANCE Pro-
fessor of Computing in the College of Computing at
Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is a mem-
ber of the Center for Experimental Research in Com-
puter Systems (CERCS). Her research to date has in-
volved program-analysis-based software engineering,
with an emphasis on regression testing, analysis and
testing of imperative and object-oriented software, and
development of software tools. Her research is funded
by the National Science Foundation, under several of
its programs, and by industry, with which she has
worked extensively to improve the processes by which
software is developed and maintained. She received the
National Science Foundation's National Young Inves-
tigator Award for her work in testing and analysis of
object-oriented software and the 1998 College of Engi-
neering Annual Research Award while at Ohio State
University. She serves on editorial boards for IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering and ACM
Transactions on Programming Languages and Sys-
tems. She served as program co-chair for the 23rd In-
ternational Conference on Software Engineering 2001
and as program chair for the ACM SIGS OFT Interna-
tional Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
2000 and for the IEEE International Conference on
Software Maintenance 1997. Dr. Harrold currently
serves as vice chair of ACM SIGSOFT and co-chair of
the Computing Research Association's Committee on
the Status of Women in Computing (CRA-W).
CHANDRIKA KAMATH is a computer scientist at the
Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, where she has led the
Sapphire project in large-scale scientific data mining
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since 1998. Specifically, her research investigates the
practical applications of large-scale data mining and
pattern recognition, image processing, feature extrac-
tion, dimension reduction, and classification and clus-
tering algorithms. Prior to joining LLNL in 1997, Dr.
Kamath was a consulting software engineer at Digital
Equipment Corporation (DEC), developing high-per-
formance mathematical software for DEC Alpha sys-
tems. She was responsible for the design, implementa-
tion, optimization, and parallelization of the sparse
linear system solvers in the Digital Extended Math Li-
brary (DXML). Dr. Kamath earned her Ph.D. in 1986
and her M.S. in 1984, both in computer science, from
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She
has filed six patents in data mining and co-edited the
book Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Ap-
plications, which was published in 2001.
DAVID J. KASIK (see biography above)
ALFRED U. MacRAE (NAE) is president of MacRae
Technologies. He is a consultant on communications
satellite technology and systems and telecommunica-
tions equipment for customers that include satellite
manufacturers, satellite system operators, communica-
tions equipment developers, and investment bankers.
Before this, he was director of AT&T Skynet Satellite
Communications Laboratory, with responsibility for
AT&T satellite technology, including satellite service
development, satellite ground equipment development,
satellite design and development, and oversight of sat-
ellite manufacture, test, launch, and operations. Prior
to the satellite responsibility, he was director of the
Advanced Integrated Circuit Laboratory at Bell Labs,
with responsibility for the development of SIC fabrica-
tion technology and circuit design and their transfer
into manufacturing. Honors include election as mem-
ber of the National Academy of Engineering; fellow,
American Physical Society; fellow, Institute of Electri-
cal and Electronic Engineers; Scientific Member,
Bohmische Physicalische Society; 1994 IEEE J.J.
Ebers Award for contributions to integrated circuit
technology; over 50 papers published in refereed tech-
nical journals; over 100 talks at professional society
meetings and universities; and 18 patents, including a
high-revenue-generating patent that was singled out for
special AT&T recognition. He serves on several IEEE
committees as well as on the Executive Committee of
the Electron Devices Society.
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DUANE T. McRUER (NAE) is concurrently an inde- Richard M. White to found the Berkeley Sensor and
pendent consultant and chairman of Systems Technol- Actuator Center (BSAC). Dr. Muller has been awarded
ogy, Inc. (STI). He received his undergraduate and
graduate education at the California Institute of Tech-
nology. Since 1950, his research has focused on aero-
space and ground vehicle and human pilot dynamics,
automatic and manual vehicular control, and vehicle
flying/handling qualities. He has published more than
125 technical papers and seven books, including Analy-
sis of Nonlinear Control Systems (Wiley, 1961; Dover,
1971) and Aircraft Dynamics and Automatic Control
(Princeton, 1973~. He has also been involved with ap-
plications of these topics in more than 50 aerospace
and land vehicles, and he has five patents on flight con-
trol and stability augmentation systems. Besides a ca-
reer as president and technical director of STI (until
1993), he has been Regent's Lecturer at the University
of California, Santa Barbara, and was the 1992-1993
Hunsaker Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT). His past service for various gov-
ernmental and professional societies includes terms as
president of the American Automatic Control Council
and chairman of the National Research Council Aero-
nautics and Space Engineering Board, the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Technical Committee on Guidance and Control, and
the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Aerospace
Control and Guidance Systems Committee. He was a
long-time member of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA) Advisory Council. He
is an honorary fellow of the AIAA and a fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
SAE, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
and a member of the National Academy of Engineer-
ing. Other honors include the Caltech Distinguished
Alumni Award, the NASA Distinguished Public Ser-
vice Medal, the AIAA Mechanics and Control of Flight
Award, the Franklin Institute's Levy Medal, and the
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's Alexander
Williams Award.
RICHARD MULLER (NAE) joined the EECS faculty
at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962. His
initial research and teaching on the physics of inte-
grated-circuit devices led to collaboration with T.I.
Kamins of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in writing
Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits. Dr. Muller
changed his research focus in the late 1970s to the gen-
eral area now known as microelectromechanical sys-
tems (MEMS) and he joined in 1986 with colleague
NATO and Fulbright research fellowships; an
Alexander von Humboldt Senior-Scientist Award; the
University of California Berkeley Citation (1994~;
Stevens Institute of Technology Renaissance Award
(1995~; the Transducers Research Conference Career
Achievement Award (1997), the IEEE Cledo Brunetti
Award (with Roger T. Howe, 1998) and an IEEE Mil-
lennium Medal (2000~. He is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering, a life fellow of the IEEE, an
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE/ASME Journal of
Microelectromechanical Systems editor in chief (since
1998), a trustee of the Stevens Institute of Technology,
past member of the NRC National Materials Advisory
Board, and on the board of the Transducers Research
Foundation. He is the author or coauthor of more than
200 technical papers and of 16 patents.
CYNTHIA R. SAMUELSON (see biography above)
JUDE SHAVLIK is a professor in the Department of
Computer Science and the Department of Biostatistics
and Medical Informatics at the University of Wiscon-
sin-Madison. His research centers on developing ma-
chine learning systems within the artificial intelligence
field, with a primary focus on applications in computa-
tional biology. Dr. Shavlik has organized or partici-
pated as a panel member at numerous artificial intelli-
gence conferences and is widely published in the field.
He is a member of the board of directors of the Interna-
tional Machine Learning Society. He received his Ph.D.
in computer science from the University of Illinois in
1988 and his master's in molecular biophysics and bio-
chemistry from Yale University in 1980. He has held
positions at either the University of Illinois or the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin since 1983. He served as a mem-
ber of the technical staff of MITRE Corporation from
1980 to 1982. Dr. Shavlik's current funding is from the
National Library of Medicine, to investigate adaptive
information monitoring and extraction, and from
DARPA, to study pattern discovery in richly intercon-
nected data sources.
SANDEEP SINGHAL, CTO, chief architect and co-
founder of ReefEdge, Inc., is a recognized expert in the
mobile intranet and internet, handheld computing, and
distributed systems. Currently, Dr. Singhal serves as
chief product architect, responsible for the company's
technical strategy. Prior to cofounding ReefEdge, he
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was chief architect for IBM's Pervasive Computing Santa Monica, 1999~; Teams and Technology (Harvard
Division, with responsibility for IBM's suite of mobile Business School Press, Boston, 1996~; Universal Ac-
connectivity, middleware, server, and applicationprod- cess to E-mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications
ucts for enterprise and carrier customers. He previously (RAND, Santa Monica, 1995~; and Preserving the
served as a researcher in IBM's T.J. Watson Research Present (Sdu Publishers, The Hague, 1993~. She holds
Center and as a software engineer at NASA. Dr. Ph.D. degrees in philosophy (University of Missouri)
Singhal's credits include 27 issued patents and dozens and psychology (UCLA). She has chaired RAND's In-
of publications, including two books and a featured stitutional Review Board since 1986. Dr. Bikson has
contribution to the recently published book Wireless also served on special task forces, panels, and planning
Local Area Networks The New Wireless Revolution. committees concerned with digital information and
He is active in various standards organizations, includ- communication media for the National Academy of
ing the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), IEEE, Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the
and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He holds National Academy of Public Administration, and the
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Social Science Research Council.
Stanford University, as well as B.S. degrees in com-
puter science and mathematical sciences and a B.A. in
mathematics from Johns Hopkins University. He is an
adjunct professor at North Carolina State University.
MARC SNIR (see biography above)
PANEL ON ENGINEERING FOR
COMPLEX SYSTEMS
DENNIS K. McBRIDE, Panel Chair (see biography
above)
TORA K. BIKSON, a senior behavioral scientist at
RAND Corporation since 1976, is recognized for her
research on the introduction of advanced communica-
tion and information technologies and their effects in
varied contexts of use. She recently completed a project
to define organizational needs and identify best prac-
tices for creating, managing, and distributing digital
documents (including compound, multimedia, and in-
teractive documents) among United Nations organiza-
tions based in Europe, North America, and South
America. In previous projects for clients, including the
National Science Foundation, the World Bank, the Or-
ganization for Economic Cooperation and Develop-
ment, the Markle Foundation, and others, she addressed
such issues as the factors that affect the successful
transfer and implementation of new technologies in
ongoing communities of practice, how innovations in-
fluence intra- and interorganizational structures and
processes, their impact on task performance and social
outcomes, and their policy implications. Dr. Bikson has
coauthored four recent books addressing such issues:
Sending Your Government a Message: E-mail Com-
munication Between Citizens and Government (RAND,
BENJAMIN BUCHBINDER (see biography above)
PHILIP R. COHEN is professor and codirector of the
Center for Human-Computer Communication at the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Oregon Health and Science University and the Oregon
Graduate Institute's School of Science and Engineer-
ing. Dr. Cohen specializes in multimodal human-ma-
chine interfaces and multiagent systems. His recent
projects include multimodal interaction for the com-
mand post of the future and robust agent-based sys-
tems incorporating teams of communicating agents,
both sponsored by DARPA, and multimodal interac-
tion for virtual environments and augmented reality,
sponsored by ONR. He recently served on the DARPA
ISAT study panel on RAP teams (teams of robots,
agents, and people). He received his Ph.D. in computer
science from the University of Toronto in 1978 and has
been a staff research scientist at Bolt Bernanek and
Newman, the Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intel-
ligence, and SRI International. Dr. Cohen is a fellow of
the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
and is a past president of the Association for Computa-
tional Linguistics.
SERGIO GUARRO (see biography above)
MYRON HECHT is cofounder and president of
SoHaR, a research, development, and consulting firm
specializing in computer dependability. He has experi-
ence in software and systems reliability and in soft-
ware fault tolerance. His activities in basic research
and development at SoHaR have resulted in new ar-
chitectures for real-time distributed systems, method-
ologies for the development and verification of fault-
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tolerant software, and designs for fault-tolerant distrib-
uted systems. Mr. Hecht recently headed efforts for
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on programming
guidelines for high-level languages in safety-critical
systems and requirements for safety-critical systems.
Mr. Hecht currently manages SoHaR's support of the
Federal Aviation Administration Office of Air Traffic
Maintenance in the analysis of reliability and outage
data. He holds a B.S in chemistry, an M.S. in engineer-
ing, an M.B.A with a specialty in information systems,
and a J.D. degree, all from the University of Califor-
nia, Los Angeles.
JAMES LARUS, a senior researcher at Microsoft Re-
search, leads the Software Productivity Tools research
group. His previous research applied programming lan-
guage and compiler technology to a wide range of prob-
lems, most notably efficient program measurement,
parallel programming, and fine-grain distributed shared
memory. He is now working on applying these tech-
nologies to improve software development. His group's
research goal is to develop and demonstrate new tools
for program design, coding, debugging, and testing that
fundamentally improve software development. Prior to
joining Microsoft, Dr. Larus was an associate profes-
sor in the Computer Sciences Department at the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin-Madison. There, he co-led the
NSF and DARPA-funded Wisconsin Wind Tunnel re-
search project, which investigated the design and pro-
gramming of shared-memory parallel computers. Dr.
Larus's master's and Ph.D. were from the University
of California, Berkeley.
DIMITRI MAVRIS (see biography above)
RONALD WESTRUM is a professor at Eastern Michi-
gan University with a dual appointment in sociology
and interdisciplinary technology. Dr. Westrum special-
izes in organizational dynamics, technological acci-
dents, and safety, with an emphasis on sociology of
science and technology, creativity and invention, and
anomalous events. He has been an invited speaker in-
ternationally on organizational dynamics in the avia-
tion field and related topics at the Sorbonne in Paris,
the U.S. Naval War College, NATO Advanced Re-
search Institutes, FAA- and NTSB-sponsored seminars,
and the World Bank seminar on Systems Safety. In the
past, he was invited to be one of two keynote speakers
at the United Nations International Civil Aviation Or-
ganization Regional Seminar in Addis Ababa, Ethio-
pia. Ron Westrum is also the author of a book on the
Sidewinder development team and the creative culture
of the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Center.
F. GORDON WILLIS is the founder and president of
Vulcan Works, LLC, which specializes in the imple-
mentation of high-performance software systems that
dramatically reduce time and cost of product develop-
ment. Prior to founding Vulcan Works, he worked at
Ford Motor Company from 1976 until 1999. During
his time at Ford, he served as chief engineer for a num-
ber of different departments within Ford Motor Com-
pany, including automatic transmission engineering,
vehicle engineering at the Small and Medium Vehicle
Center, and automotive chassis engineering, and as the
director for Product and Manufacturing Systems for car
product development. Mr. Willis served on the NRC
Advanced Engineering Environments committee that
evaluated NASA programs in computing and collabo-
ration.
PANEL ON ENABLING CONCEPTS
AND TECHNOLOGIES
LEE D. PETERSON, Panel Chair (see biography
above)
CLINTON A. (ANDY) BOYE is the deputy director of
national space programs for Sandia National Laborato-
ries, in the Center for Monitoring Systems and Tech-
nology. As the program manager, he is responsible to
customers in the national space community. For the
past 18 years, he has been involved in the development
of space-based electro-optical and radio-frequency sys-
tems for remote sensing and communications, systems
research in the remote detection and characterization
of laser systems, and research on the optical spectra of
terrestrial lightning. Prior to joining Sandia, Mr. Boye
enjoyed a 10-year career in the U.S. Air Force, work-
ing in the areas of electronic countermeasures (ECM)
and high-energy laser beam propagation, adaptive op-
tics, and laser antisatellite (ASAT) systems. Mr. Boye
is a member of the Optical Society of America, the
Society for Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
(SPIE), and the American Society for Photogrammetry
and Remote Sensing (ASPRS).
LEONARD H. CAVENY (see biography above)
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STANLEY V. GUNN capped an almost 40-year career
at Rocket~yne as program manager for advanced pro-
grams in both nuclear thermal rocket propulsion and
free electron lasers. Dr. Gunn began his career at
Rocket~yne in the aerophysics laboratory and worked
through positions of increasing responsibility, serving
as program manger for high-energy lasers, gas dynamic
lasers, and nuclear propulsion projects. During this pe-
riod he also evaluated potential applications for ad-
vanced launch and space propulsion systems, includ-
ing advanced chemical rocket propulsion, nuclear
rocket propulsion, electric propulsion, and photon pro-
pulsion. Lt. Gunn served in the U.S. Army before re-
ceiving his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michi-
gan State University in 1947. Dr. Gunn also received
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering
from Purdue University in 1949 and 1953, respectively.
He worked for General Electric in guided missiles
before joining North American Aviation (now Rocket-
dyne) in 1953. Dr. Gunn has been awarded various na-
tional awards for his work in nuclear thermal propul-
sion and his role in the Saturn/Apollo rocket system.
ANTHONY K. HYDER is associate vice president for
graduate studies and research and professor of physics
at the University of Notre Dame. From 1991 to 1993,
he served as associate vice president for research while
he continued his teaching responsibilities as a profes-
sor of aerospace engineering at Notre Dame. His re-
sponsibilities included development and administra-
tion of the research activities of the university; strategic
planning and formulation of university policy related
to research, industrial activities, and research compli-
ance issues; the evaluation of research quality and in-
frastructure; decisions related to the commitment of
university resources to research activities; and repre-
senting the university on research and associated
graduate-studies matters. From 1991 to 1995, Dr.
Hyder also worked as a research fellow for the Space
Power Institute at Auburn University. During this pe-
riod, he completed several research-related activities
under way at the time of accepting the appointment at
Notre Dame, including editing a book on the nature of
the space environment; advising graduate students; and
investigating space applications of advanced batteries
and fuel cells, radioisotope thermoelectric generators,
and high-power microwave tubes. Dr. Hyder also
served as associate vice president for research from
1984 to 1991 and was founding director of both the
Center for Advanced Technologies and the Space
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Power Institute while a professor at Auburn Univer-
sity. Since arriving at Notre Dame, he has authored a
text on spacecraft power technologies and has edited
books on defense conversion strategies and multi-
sensor fusion. Dr. Hyder will also be able to provide
expertise in the area of space environments, sensors,
and spacecraft power systems.
DIMITRIS C. LAGOUDAS is the Ford Professor of
Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University,
College Station. He is currently serving as director for
the Texas Institute for Intelligent Bio-Nano Materials
and Structures for Aerospace Vehicles (TiiMS), chair
of the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Materials
Science and Engineering, and as an associate vice presi-
dent for research. Lagoudas's educational background
includes his diploma in mechanical engineering in 1982
from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and
his Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1986 from Lehigh
University. Lagoudas's research interests include ac-
tive materials and smart structures, theories of defects
in solids, micromechanics of composite materials, dam-
age mechanics, and constitutive modeling and applica-
tions of shape memory alloys (SMAs). He has pub-
lished more than 200 papers (more than 90 in archival
journals). Lagoudas is the recipient of the Lockheed
Excellence in Engineering Teaching Award, the Neely
'52 Dow Chemical Faculty Fellow Award, TEES Se-
nior Research Fellow, and the most prestigious Texas
A&M Faculty Fellow Award. He is in Who's Who in
America and Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
He was selected as the inaugural recipient of one of the
two Ford Motor Company professorships and is an as-
sociate fellow of AIAA and fellow of ASME.
TODD J. MOSHER (see biography above)
JAY S. PEARLMAN is chief of science and applica-
tions for the Advanced Network Centric Operations
Systems in the Phantom Works organization of Boeing.
His background includes basic research, program man-
agement, and program development in sensors and sys-
tems. He has played an important role in the develop-
ment and implementation of new concepts and
capabilities for both the military and the civil sectors of
the U.S. government. At Boeing, he is working on the
Advanced Landsat System as chief scientist and is also
developing network-centric applications for govern-
ment applications. Dr. Pearlman remains active in
hyperspectral imaging and analysis as a continuation
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of his work at TRW and his role as scientist for the
NASA EO-1 Hyperion program. Prior to his employ-
ment at TRW, Dr. Pearlman was manager of advanced
technology commercial applications at Maxwell Labo-
ratories and spent several years at the Department of
Energy and S. andia National Laboratories. Dr.
Pearlman earned his Ph.D. in aeronautics from the
University of Washington.
JOSEPH B. REAGAN (NAE) (see biography above)
NANCY R. SOTTOS is a professor in the Department
of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Beckman
Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her re-
search interests include mechanics of complex hetero-
geneous materials (advanced composites, thin-film de-
vices, smart materials); mesoscale characterization; and
autonomic materials systems. Her work at the Beckman
Institute addresses issues in the development of auto-
nomic materials systems that have the ability to achieve
adaptation and response in an independent and auto-
matic fashion. Dr. Sottos's research group is investi-
gating new experimental methods to quantify auto-
nomic response (e.g., the healing efficiency of a
self-healing polymer) and understand this response in
terms of the material's chemistry, processing, and mi-
crostructure. Dr. Sottos began her career at the Univer-
sity of Illinois in 1991, serving as an assistant profes-
sor. In 1997 she became an associate professor, in 1998
she served a 1-year rotating term as assistant dean of
engineering, and in 2002 she was promoted to full pro-
fessor. She received an ONR Young Investigator
Award in 1992, Outstanding Engineering Advisor
Award in 1992, 1998, 1999, and 2002, the Robert E.
Miller award for Excellence in Teaching in 1999, and
was designated a University Scholar in 2002. She
serves as the senior technical editor for the journal Ex-
perimental Mechanics, as an editorial board member
for the journal Composites Science and Technology,
and a technical reviewer for multiple technical jour-
nals. Dr. Sottos received her B.S. and Ph.D. in me-
chanical engineering from the University of Delaware.
She also serves as the faculty advisor for the Student
Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers and as
National Student Chapter Coordinator for the Society
of Engineering Science.
GREGORY G. SPANJERS has been program manager
for the PowerSail Program at the Air Force Research
Laboratory (AFRL), Space Vehicles Directorate, at
Kirtland Air Force Base since October 2002. He was
previously the deputy chief of the Spacecraft Propul-
sion Branch and Group Leader of the Electric Propul-
sion Laboratory of the Air Force Research Laboratory,
Propulsion Directorate, at Edwards Air Force Base in
California, where he directed advanced engineering
development for two flight payloads: a propulsive atti-
tude control flight demo on FalconSat3 and the
micropropulsion flight demo on TechSat21. Prior to
this he was a research scientist with HY-Tech Research
Corporation, where he focused on pulse-power simula-
tors for nuclear effects testing, MHD, and plasma pro-
cessing. Dr. Spanjers holds a B.S. in mathematics and a
B.S. in physics from the University of Minnesota, an
M.S. in nuclear engineering from the University of
Washington, and a Ph.D. in plasma physics from the
University of Washington. Dr. Spanjers is an associate
editor for the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power
and serves on the AIAA Electric Propulsion Technical
Committee. In 2002 he was a member of the National
Space Capability Protection Study.
MICHAEL J. STALLARD is senior project engineer
in the Space Technology Division at the Aerospace
Corporation. He provides strategic planning and tech-
nical support to the Space Vehicles Directorate of the
Air Force Research Laboratory for advanced space
technology, including formation flying and
microsatellite research. He also provides support to the
MILSATCOM Joint Program Office on advanced sat-
ellite communications technologies. Dr. Stallard joined
the Aerospace Corporation in 1989 and has been in-
volved with numerous Air Force space missions and
flight experiments, providing structural and
multidisciplinary analyses, systems engineering, and
technology integration. Stallard has several recent pub-
lications on low-cost microsatellites, distributed satel-
lite missions, and virtual satellite technologies. He was
also awarded a patent for smart docking surfaces for
nano- and microsatellites. Dr. Stallard earned his Ph.D.
in continuum mechanics from the University of Cali-
fornia in 1990 and his M.S. and B.S. in mechanical
engineering from the University of California, Berke-
ley, and California State Polytechnic University.
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