Apr 2010 – Dec 2014 · 4 yrs 8 mos

• As a full-time MITRE assignee to ONR, I support the Code 30 Research Director in finding, studying, and assessing new government, university, and industrial research directions for software and computer science, hard sciences (physics, biology, chemistry, materials, nanotech), soft sciences (human, social, cultural, and human/machine dynamics), and autonomous systems (robotics and robotic systems with a focus on cost-effective self-sufficiency), all with the long term goal of expanding automated support for expeditionary warfighters (the Marines).

Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 · 0 mo

• At QI-2010 I gave an invited talk on how there may be a deep link between biological cognition and some very fundamental physics, specifically the extremely powerful quantum physics model known as Quantum Electrodynamics, or QED. As formulated by Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman, QED in effect describes every particle as constantly "exploring" all its possible future histories in parallel, with new information causing a "collapse" (usually called decoherence in current physics terminology) into a specific state. The growing body of insights from neurology have helped make it clear that biological intelligence uses a strikingly similar mechanism of parallel exploration of what could happen next to help otherwise slow neurons respond quickly and appropriately when new information comes in, resulting in a simplification and "certainty of state" that is strikingly similar to collapse or decoherence events in quantum physics. I remain firmly convinced that to create truly intelligent machine systems, similar mechanisms of "pre-exploration" of future events will prove to be a fundamental concept, and also one that when extended fully leads to the remarkable ability of human intelligence to explore entirely imaginary worlds and futures that do not yet exist.

May 2004 – Jun 2010 · 6 yrs 1 mo

• As a full-time MITRE assignee I was the chief technology analyst for DeVenCI. I analyzed emerging IT and hard science technologies for how they might be relevant to DoD and other federal needs. This included helping to convey DoD needs to volunteer Venture Capitalists, and assessing how recommended technologies might be relevant to DoD needs.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2010 · 6 yrs

• Finding and connecting emerging private sector technologies and innovations to potential U.S. DoD users. Also, collecting and organizing content for a book on five years of DoD-sponsored cyber security research.

Mar 2002 – Jan 2003 · 10 mos · Reston, Virginia

• Researched and wrote this report while working at The MITRE Corporation

Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 · 2 yrs

• In this job I supported Steve McConnell, then Editor in Chief of IEEE Software and also the author of Code Complete, in selecting topics and papers for regular and special issues of IEEE Software.

Mar 1997 – Jul 2016 · 19 yrs 4 mos

• Technology Analyst focusing on IT, security, and hard sciences.

Mar 1997 – Jul 2016 · 19 yrs 4 mos

• Supporting new and cross-Services approaches to Autonomy research and applications.

Jan 1985 – Jan 1988 · 3 yrs

• Most of my research work at SPC involved software process and software reusability. While there I wrote a paper that received a Best Paper award from IEEE Software. The paper documented and critiqued a number of serious flaws in Watts Humphrey's early version what later became the SEI Capability Maturity Model. The second half of the same paper proposed an entirely new, more information-theory based approach to process maturity that included a broader cognition-based spectrum of process types and development risk types. Alas, IEEE Software decided not to publish that second part after complaints from SEI about fairness.

Jan 1983 – Jan 1988 · 5 yrs · Greenbelt, MD

• Headed a small group that did artificial intelligence work for NASA, including a prototype load balancing AI for use on the Space Shuttle.

Jan 1981 – Jan 1982 · 1 yr