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About
the Speakers
Angela
Belcher
Dr. Angela Belcher is a materials
chemist with expertise in the fields
of biomaterials, biomolecular materials,
organic-inorganic interfaces and solid
state chemistry. Dr. Belcher, who
joined MIT in 2002 as the John Chipman
Associate Professor of Materials Science
and Engineering and Bioengineering,
has pioneered research that unites
biological materials—proteins
from bacteria, viruses, and DNA—with
inorganic materials such as semiconductor
and metal particles. Her work is paving
the way for the development of a host
of technological marvels, including
potential building blocks for transistors,
wires, connectors, sensors, and computer
chips far smaller than anything manufactured
so far.
The
focus of Dr. Belcher’s research
is understanding and using the process
by which nature makes materials in
order to design novel hybrid organic-inorganic
electronic and magnetic materials
on new length scales. Her research
is very interdisciplinary in nature
and brings together the fields of
inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry,
biochemistry, molecular biology and
electrical engineering.
Among
her awards are the Presidential Early
Career Award in Science and Engineering
(2000), and the Du Pont Young Investigators
Award (1999). Her research was mentioned
in a July 2001 Forbes magazine cover
story on nanotechnology. She received
the 2000 Presidential Early Career
Award for Science and Engineering,
regarded as the highest honor bestowed
by the U.S. government on outstanding
scientists and engineers as they begin
their careers. She received her BS
and PhD degrees from the University
of California at Santa Barbara.
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Rocco
Casagrande
Rocco Casagrande is a Director in
the Homeland Defense practice at Abt
Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dr. Casagrande, who was previously
a United Nations weapons inspector
in Iraq, is building the company's
Homeland Defense program with an emphasis
on bioterrorism defense, including
agricultural biosecurity and public
health preparedness.
Dr.
Cassagrande has extensive experience
in biosurveillance and biological
threats. Prior to his role as a weapons
inspector, Dr. Casagrande was a scientist
at Surface Logix, Inc., where he was
responsible for developing and testing
detection platforms for biological
warfare agents. He has been widely
published on the subjects of agricultural
and biological terrorism and is a
prominent lecturer on these subjects.
He has been a researcher for the Defense
Threat Reduction Agency and was a
member of the Controlling Dangerous
Pathogens Project at the Center for
International and Security Studies.
Dr.
Casagrande is a graduate of Cornell
University with degrees in chemistry
and biology, and holds a Ph.D. in
biology from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
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David
Clark
David Clark is Senior Research Scientist
at the MIT Laboratory for Computer
Science. Since the mid 1970s, Dr.
Clark has been leading the development
of the Internet; from 1981-1989 he
acted as Chief Protocol Architect
in this development, and chaired the
Internet Activities Board. Recent
activities include extensions to the
Internet to support real-time traffic,
explicit allocation of service, pricing
and related economic issues, and policy
issues surrounding local loop employment.
New activities focus on the architecture
of the Internet in the post-PC era.
Dr.
Clark is chairman of the Computer
Science and Telecommunications Board
of the National Research Council.
His recent publications include “Rethinking
the design of the Internet: The end
to end arguments vs. the brave new
world” (with M. Blumenthal),
to appear in ACM Trans. Internet Technology.
The
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
(LCS) is an interdepartmental laboratory
whose principal goal is research in
computer science and engineering.
It is dedicated to the invention,
development and understanding of information
technologies which are expected to
drive substantial technical and socio-economic
change.
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Joshua
Cohen
Currently Head of the
Political Science Department at MIT,
Joshua Cohen joined the faculty in
1978. Prof. Cohen, who holds joint
appointments in the Political Science
Department and the Philosophy Section
of the Linguistics and Philosophy
Department at MIT, is the first incumbent
of the Leon and Anne Goldberg Chair
in the Humanities.
Prof.
Cohen is a political theorist, trained
in philosophy, with a special interest
in issues that lie at the intersection
of democratic norms and institutions.
He is an outstanding scholar of political
philosophy, a renowned teacher, and
author and editor of 21 books and
nearly 60 articles. He is also editor-in
chief of the political and literary
magazine Boston Review. He
has written extensively on issues
of democratic theory, particularly
on the theory of deliberative democracy,
and the implications of that idea
for issues of personal liberty, freedom
of expression, electoral finance,
and new forms of associative and direct-democratic
participation. He is currently working
on issues of global justice, including
the foundations of human rights, distributive
fairness, and supra-national democratic
governance.
Among
his many honors are the Harold E.
Edgerton Award, the highest honor
given to young faculty at MIT, and
the James and Ruth Levitan Prize in
the Humanities. He received his BA
and MA in philosophy from Yale University
and his PhD in philosophy from Harvard
University.
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Gerald
Fink
Gerald Fink is a founding Member of
the Whitehead Institute and American
Cancer Society Professor of Genetics
at MIT. He was director of the Whitehead
from 1990 to 2001. Dr. Fink received
his PhD degree in genetics from Yale
University and served for 15 years
on the faculty of Cornell University.
A past president of the Genetics Society
of America, he is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences (1981),
a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences (1984), and a member
of the Institute of Medicine (1996).
Most
recently, Dr. Fink chaired the Committee
on Research Standards and Practices
to Prevent the Destructive Application
of Biotechnology under the National
Research Council of the National Academies.
The charge to the Committee was to
consider ways to minimize threats
from biological warfare and bioterrorism
without hindering the progress of
biotechnology, which is essential
for the health of the nation. Their
report, “Biotechnology Research
in an Age of Terrorism: Confronting
the Dual Use Dilemma,” has just
been released.
Among
his many honors and awards are the
National Academy of Sciences/U.S.
Steel Foundation Award in Molecular
Biology, the Medal of the Genetics
Society of America, and the Yale Science
and Engineering Award. He received
the first honorary doctorate awarded
by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in
1999.
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Marc
Goldberg
Mr. Goldberg co-founded the Massachusetts
Biotechnology Council in 1985, and
has served four terms as President
and was a Director from its inception
in 1985 until 1997. His is currently
Managing Director of BioVentures Investors
in Cambridge, MA. He has also served
as a board member of numerous privately
held companies. He was a member and
principal author of the Governor’s
Task Force, Subcommittee on Biotechnology
and Pharmaceutical Development. He
was a Governor of the Harvard Business
School Association of Boston and was
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
at Worcester State College.
From
1991 to 1997 Mr. Goldberg was President
and CEO of Massachusetts Biotechnology
Research Institute (Worcester, Massachusetts).
From 1987 to 1991, Mr. Goldberg held
senior positions at Safer, Inc. (Newton,
Massachusetts), including Chief Financial
Officer and Vice President, Finance
and Corporate Development.
Mr. Goldberg earned his A.B. from
Harvard College (Phi Beta Kappa, magna
cum laude), his J.D. from Harvard
Law School (cum laude), and his M.B.A.
from Harvard Business School.
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Daniel
Hastings
Daniel Hastings is Professor of Aeronautics
and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
and Co-Director of the Engineering
Systems Division. Dr. Hastings’
recent research has concentrated on
issues of space systems and space
policy, and has also focused on issues
related to spacecraft-environmental
interactions, space propulsion, space
systems engineering, and space policy.
He serves as Principal Investigator
on an NSF Integrated Graduate Education
and Research Traineeship program on
"Assessing the Implications of
Emerging Technologies."
Dr.
Hastings served as Chief Scientist
of the Air Force from 1997 to 1999.
In that role, he served as chief scientific
adviser to the chief of staff and
the secretary and provided assessments
on a wide range of scientific and
technical issues affecting the Air
Force mission. He led several influential
studies on where the Air Force should
invest in space, global energy projection,
and options for a science and technology
workforce for the 21st century.
Dr.
Hastings is a Fellow of the AIAA and
a member of the International Academy
of Astronautics. He is serving as
a member of the NASA Advisory Council,
the National Academies Government
University Industry Research Roundtable
and is the chair of the Applied Physics
Lab Science and Technology Advisory
Panel as well as the Air Force Scientific
Advisory Board. He is a member of
the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Advisory
Committee and is on the Board of Trustees
of the Aerospace Corporation. He also
served as a member of the National
Academy of Engineering's 1996 and
1997 Organizing Committee for Frontiers
of Engineering and is a consultant
to the Institute for Defense Analysis.
Dr.
Hastings holds a Ph.D. from MIT in
Aeronautics and Astronautics, which
he received in 1980.
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Wyn
Jennings
Wyn Jennings is on leave from his
position as Program Director of the
Integrative Graduate Education and
Research Traineeship program (IGERT)
at the National Science Foundation
in order to focus on science and education
issues at the Science and Technology
Directorate of the Department of Homeland
Security. Dr. Jennings had been at
the National Science Foundation since
1994, when he began as a Program Officer
in the Chemistry. Prior to that, he
was a tenured faculty member in the
Department of Chemistry at Montana
State University.
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Richard
Lester
Richard K. Lester is the director
of the MIT Industrial Performance
Center and a professor of nuclear
engineering at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. Dr. Lester's research
focuses on technological innovation,
productivity, and industrial competition.
His latest book, The Productive
Edge: How American Industries are
Pointing the Way to a New Era of Economic
Growth, examines the origins
of America's industrial revival.
Dr.
Lester founded the MIT Industrial
Performance Center in 1992. As director
of the Center, Lester works with faculty
and students from all five of MIT’s
Schools on a broad range of interdisciplinary
research projects concerning the uses
of science and technology in industry
and the implications of these developments
for productivity and society. Dr.
Lester’s current research projects
include a study of globalization and
its implications for productivity,
innovation, and job creation in five
industries, and an international comparative
study on the economic role of the
research university. He is also participating
in an MIT study on the future of nuclear
power.
Dr.
Lester received his undergraduate
degree in chemical engineering from
Imperial College, London, and was
awarded a Kennedy Scholarship to study
at MIT, where he received a doctorate
in nuclear engineering. He has been
a member of the MIT faculty since
1979.
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Lawrence
E. McCray
Lawrence McCray is Senior Consultant
to the Center for International Studies
at MIT . Dr. McCray spent most of
the 1980s and 1990s at the National
Academy of Sciences. As project director
and then program director at NAS,
Dr. McCray led many evaluative studies,
primarily reviewing policy programs
of the U.S government.
From
1993 to 1998, Dr. McCray served as
the founding director of the Academy's
Policy Division within the National
Research Council. As Director of the
Policy Division, Dr. McCray was a
participant in many major technology
assessments. Prior to his time at
NAS, Dr. McCray was Program Director
in the Executive Office of the President,
where he led government-wide reform
projects on program evaluation and
on the use of market-compatible incentive
systems in the nation's regulatory
agencies. These projects were located
in the U.S. Regulatory Council and
the Office of Management and Budget.
From 1977 to 1979, he was head of
the Regulatory Reform Unit at the
Environmental Protection Agency:
Dr.
McCray received dual bachelors degrees
and an MBA from Union College, and
his PhD in Political Science from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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David
Mindell
David Mindell is Frances and David
Dibner Associate Professor of the
History of Engineering and Manufacturing
in the MIT Program in Science, Technology
and Society, and MacVicar Fellow
Associate Professor of Engineering
Systems in the Engineering Systems
Division. Professor Mindell is also
an adjunct researcher at the Institute
for Exploration in Mystic, CT, and
a visiting scientist at the Deep Submergence
Laboratory of the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution.
His
research interests include technology
policy (historical and current), the
history of automation in the military,
the history of electronics and computing,
and deep-sea archaeology.
Professor
Mindell heads MIT's "DeepArch"
research group in Deep Sea archaeology.
He is the author of War, Technology
and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor
(2000), and Between Human and
Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing
before Cybernetics (2002). He
is working on a book on the history
of systems engineering, guidance,
and computing the Apollo program in
the 1960s.
Professor
Mindell received his B.S. (Electrical
Engineering) and his B.A. (Literature)
from Yale University and his Ph.D.
from MIT (History of Technology).
He was a National Science Foundation
Graduate Fellow and a fellow at the
Dibner Institute for the History of
Science and Technology.
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Dava
Newman
Dava J. Newman is Professor of Aeronautics
and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
and the Director of Technology and
Policy Program. She is also a MacVicar
Faculty Fellow. Together with Dan
Hastings, Kenneth Oye, and Merritt
Roe Smith, Dava Newman serves as co-PI
on an NSF Integrated Graduate Education
and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program
on "Assessing the Implications
of Emerging Technologies."
Her
expertise is in multidisciplinary
research that combines aerospace biomedical
engineering, human-in-the-loop modeling,
biomechanics, human interface technology,
life sciences, systems analysis, design
and policy. Dr. Newman's research
studies are carried out through space
flight experiments, ground-based simulations,
and mathematical modeling. Current
research efforts include: advanced
space suit design, dynamics and control
of astronaut motion, mission analysis,
and engineering systems design and
policy analysis. She also has ongoing
efforts in assistive technologies
to augment human locomotion here on
Earth.
Dr.
Newman is the author of Interactive
Aerospace Engineering and Design,
an introductory engineering textbook
with accompanying CD-ROM, published
by McGraw-Hill, Inc. in 2002. She
has also published more than 100 papers
in journals and refereed conferences.
Dr.
Newman received her BS degree from
the University of Notre Dame and SM
degrees in 1989 from MIT's Technology
and Policy Program and department
of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Kenneth
Oye
Kenneth A. Oye holds a joint appointment
as Associate Professor of Political
Science and of Engineering Systems
at MIT. After serving two terms as
Director of the MIT Center for International
Studies (1992-2000), he is now forming
a Political Economy and Technology
Policy Program within the Center.
He has taught on the faculties of
the Kennedy School at Harvard University,
the University of California, Princeton
University, and Swarthmore College.
Together with Dan Hastings, Dava Newman,
and Merritt Roe Smith, Kenneth Oye
serves as co-PI on NSF Integrated
Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
(IGERT) program on "Assessing
the Implications of Emerging Technologies."
He
has published six books and numerous
short studies in international relations,
political economy, and science and
technology policy. His books include
Economic Discrimination and Political
Exchange, Cooperation Under Anarchy,
and a four volume series on Carter,
Reagan and Bush administration foreign
policies. His articles examine international
export financing issues, regulatory
diversity and trade, and a range of
science and technology issues. He
is now completing books on environmental
regulation and trade and on uses of
compensation in political economy.
Kenneth
Oye's teaching includes courses on
Science, Technology and Public Policy,
a Research Seminar in International
Relations, and a course on the International
Political Economy of Advanced Industrial
Countries. He received the 1998 Graduate
Student Council Outstanding Teaching
Award in Social Sciences, Humanities
and Arts and the 2003 Technology and
Policy Program Faculty Appreciation
Award.
He
holds a BA in Economics and Political
Science with Highest Honors from Swarthmore
College and a Ph.D in Political Science
with the Chase Dissertation Prize
from Harvard University.
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Merritt
Roe Smith
Merritt Roe Smith is the Leverett
and William Cutten Professor of the
History of Technology and is former
Director of the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society. His research
focuses on the history of technological
innovation and social change. Together
with Dan Hastings, Kenneth Oye, and
Dava Newman, Merritt Roe Smith serves
as co-PI on an NSF Integrated Graduate
Education and Research Traineeship
(IGERT) program on "Assessing
the Implications of Emerging Technologies.
"His
book, Harpers Ferry Armory and the
New Technology, published in 1977,
received a number of awards and was
nominated for the 1977 Pulitzer Prize
in History. Other publications include
Military Enterprise and Technological
Change (1985); Does Technology Drive
History? (1994), co-edited with Leo
Marx; Major Problems in the History
of American Technology (1998), co-edited
with Gregory Clancey; and numerous
articles and essays including "Technology,
Industrialization, and the Idea of
Progress in America" and "Industry,
Technology, and the 'Labor Question'
in 19th-Century America".
Professor
Smith is currently working on a textbook
in American history co-authored with
Pauline Maier, Alex Keyssar, and Daniel
Kevles and a monograph entitled "A
Mechanical Age: Technology and Social
Change in the Early American Industrial
Revolution." Professor Smith
is a Fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences and past president
of the Society for the History of
Technology from which he received
the Leonardo da Vinci Medal, the Society's
highest honor.
Professor
Smith’s Ph.D. is from The Pennsylvania
State University.
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Gary
W. Strong
Dr. Strong is currently on detail
from the National Science Foundation
to the Department of Homeland Security
to assist in establishing a new research
organization in the Science and Technology
Directorate. At NSF, Dr. Strong
assisted with interagency coordination
of national security and homeland
security related programs, managed
the computer science cluster of biology-related
research programs, and managed a large
cross-agency information technology
research program. Prior to this,
Dr. Strong was on detail to the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency
to manage the Translingual Information
Detection, Extraction and Summarization
Program and co-manage the Bio:Info:Micro
Program.
Dr.
Strong is currently co-chair of two
National Science and Technology Council
groups: the NSTC Biometrics Working
Group and the Social, Behavioral,
and Economics Research Subcommittee.
Previously, Dr. Strong was member
or chair of several interagency working
groups on Information Technology Research
and Development.
From
1982-1994, Dr. Strong was a faculty
member at Drexel University.
Prior to completing his PhD, Dr. Strong
worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories
in the Data Communications Laboratory.
Gary Strong received his Bachelor
of Science in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Michigan.
He earned his Masters of Science in
Electrical Engineering from Columbia
University, and he received his Ph.D.
jointly in Computer and Communication
Sciences and in Anthropology from
the University of Michigan.
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Charles
M. Vest
Charles M. Vest has been president
of MIT since 1990. During this time
he has placed special emphasis on
enhancing undergraduate education,
exploring new organiza-tional forms
to meet emerging directions in research
and education, building a stronger
international dimension into education
and research programs, developing
stronger relations with industry,
and enhancing racial and cultural
diversity at MIT.
He
has also devoted considerable energy
to bringing issues concerning education
and research to broader public attention
and to strengthening national policy
on science, engineering, and education.
In this latter capacity, Dr. Vest
chaired the President’s Committee
on the Redesign of the Space Station
and has served as a member of the
President’s Committee of Advisors
on Science and Technology (PCAST),
the Massachusetts Governor's Council
on Economic Growth and Technology,
and the National Research Council
Board on Engineering Education.
In
addition, Dr. Vest chairs the U.S.
Department of Energy Task Force on
the Future of Science Programs and
is Vice Chair of the Council on Competitiveness
and immediate past Chair of the Association
of American Universities (AAU). He
sits on the board of directors of
both IBM and E. I. du Pont de Nemours
& Company. As a member of the
mechanical engineering faculty at
MIT, Dr. Vest has research interests
in the thermal sciences and the engineering
applications of lasers and coherent
optics.
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Cindy
Williams
Cindy Williams is a Senior Fellow
of the Security Studies Program at
MIT. Formerly she was Assistant Director
for National Security at the Congressional
Budget Office, where she led the National
Security Division in studies of budgetary
and policy choices related to defense
and international security.
Dr.
Williams has served as a director
and in other capacities at the MITRE
Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts;
as a member of the Senior Executive
Service in the Office of the Secretary
of Defense at the Pentagon; and at
Rand in Santa Monica, California.
Her areas of specialization include
the national security budget, command
and control of military forces, conventional
air and ground forces, and nuclear
weapons.
Dr.
Williams holds a Ph.D. in mathematics
from the University of California,
Irvine. She has published in the areas
of command and control and the defense
budget.
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Rosalind
Williams
Professor Williams came to MIT in
1980 as a research fellow in the Program
in Science, Technology, and Society.
In 1982 she joined the Writing Program
(now the Program in Writing and Humanistic
Studies) as a lecturer. In 1990 she
was named Class of 1922 Career Development
Professor, and in 1995 she was named
the Robert M. Metcalfe Professor of
Writing. From 1991 to 1993 she served
as Associate Chair of the MIT Faculty,
and from 1995 to 2000 as Dean of Students
and Undergraduate Education. In 2001-02
she served as Director of Graduate
Studies in the Program in Science,
Technology, and Society, and in July
2002 she become head of the Program
in Science, Technology, and Society.
Her
first book, Dream Worlds: Mass
Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century
France (University of California,
1982), explores the complicated relations
between technological change, cultural
values, and marketing techniques at
a critical moment in the development
of modern consumer society. Her next
book, Notes on the Underground:
An Essay on Technology, Society, and
the Imagination (MIT Press, 1990),
explores the implications for human
life in the transition from a predominantly
natural to a predominantly built environment.
As a cultural historian of technology,
she has also considered the implications
of this transition in studies of Lewis
Mumford, Jules Romains, Enlightenment
thinkers, and the issue of technological
determinism. Her latest book, Retooling:
A Historian Confronts Technological
Change (MIT Press, 2002) draws
upon her experiences as a historian
and MIT dean to comment upon our "technological
age." Her next book will use
literary texts to examine experiences
of the world in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries, when global
systems of transportation and communication
began to affect those experiences
in significant and complicated ways.
Her
main professional affiliation outside
of MIT is the Society for the History
of Technology (SHOT), where she has
served on and chaired a number of
committees. In 2002 she was named
as vice-president and president-elect
of SHOT.
Rosalind
Williams attended Wellesley College
and received degrees from Harvard
University (B.A., History and Literature),
the University of California at Berkeley
(M.A., Modern European History) and
the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst (Ph.D., History).
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