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Fellow, Information
Sciences Institute
Research Professor, ISE, Chemical
Engineering and Materials Science, Astronautics
Address:
Do we really want to put an address
here? I wouldn't recommend it
Email Address: not sure what to put here. Surely want to spell it out so bot's don't harvest it.
Research Interests:
Research
Interests: Robotics, Space, MEMS, design and manufacturing
Education:
1960 Ph.D., Faculty of Science
(Non-Linear Systems), University of Aberdeen, Scotland
1958 B.Sc.
(ENG) 1st Class Honors, Electrical Engineering, University of
Aberdeen, Scotland
USC/ISI Positions:
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2004- |
Research Professor, Astronautics and Space Technology Division |
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2002- |
ISI Fellow |
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2000- |
Research Professor, Department of Materials Science |
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1997- |
Research Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering |
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2000-02 |
Division Director |
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1994-2000 |
Director of Distributed Scalable Systems Division |
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1992-94 |
Director of High Performance Computer & Communications Division |
Other Professional Positions:
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2001 |
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Zyvex Corp. |
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2000-01 |
Chief Technical Officer, Akroria Networks |
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1990-92 |
Director of Design Strategy Product Generation, Corporate Headquarters, Hewlett-Packard Co. |
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1988-90 |
Director of the Measurement and Manufacturing Center, HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Co. |
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1987-88 |
Director of the Manufacturing Research Center, HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Co. |
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1986-87 |
Director, VLSI Systems Research, Fairchild Semiconductor |
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1983-86 |
Director of Systems Research, Schlumberger-Doll Research Laboratory |
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1980-83 |
Director of Product Systems, Schlumberger Well Services, Houston |
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1978-80 |
Industry Technical Advisor for Advanced Manufacturing Systems, IBM Corp. |
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1965-78 |
Manager Automation Systems, Yorktown Heights Research Center, IBM Corp. |
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1966-71 |
Teaching, (part-time), University of Connecticut, Stanford, CT |
Honors and Awards:
2003: USC Faculty Research Recognition Award from Phi Kappa
Phi
1990: Joseph E. Engelberger Medal in Robotics
1958-60:
Carnegie Fellowship
IBM Awards for Outstanding Contribution,
Outstanding Innovation, and Four Invention Plateau Awards
Professional Service:
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2002- |
Member, NASA MARS Technology Advisory Board |
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2001- |
Chairman, NIST Manufacturing Systems Integration Division Review Panel |
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1995 |
Founder, Laboratory for Molecular Robots, USC |
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1993-94 |
Chairman, NRC study on Information Technology in Manufacturing |
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1988-94 |
Member DARPA Information Science and Technology Group |
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1980s |
National Science Foundation (NSF) Scientific Advisory Committees: |
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Chairman, Microelectronics Information Processing Committee |
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Chairman, Design, Manufacturing and Computer Engineering Committee |
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Member, Optics, Communications and Systems Committee |
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1982-86 |
Member of the Computer Science and Technology Board of the National Research Council |
Founded and operated for 8 years (1994-2002) the MEMS
ClearingHouse, an information utility that supports student and
faculty researchers, world-wide in their research activities in MEMS
field. The activity was recently transferred to CNRI, see
http://www.memsnet.org.