Biographies

 

• Ms. Nancy Ellen Abrams
  
• Dr. James S. Albus
  Senior NIST Fellow, Intelligent Systems Division, National Institute of Standards & Technology
  
• Dr. Angela Belcher
  Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
• Dr. Cynthia Breazeal
  Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab Director of the Robotic Life Group and LG Group career development chair, MIT
  
• Major General Charles A. Cartwright
  Program Manager, Future Combat Systems (FCS) Brigade Combat Team (BCT), US Army
  
• Dr. Justine Cassell
  Director, Center for Technology & Social Behavior and Professor, Departments of Communication Studies and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Northwestern University
  
• Dr. Robert Clark
  Director, Centre for Quantum Computer Technology
  Program Manager: Quantum measurement & control chip
  Professor of Experimental Physics (Chair) and Scientia Professor, University of New
  South Wales, Sydney NSW, Australia
  
• Dr. Evelyn Hu
  Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Scientific Director of the California Nanosystems Institute
  
• Dr. John D. Joannopoulos
  Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics (Chair) and Director, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
• Dr. Thomas H. Killion
  Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology/Chief Scientist, US Army
  
• Mr. Roger A. Krone
  President, Network and Space Systems, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
  
• Dr. Ray Kurzweil
  Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
  
• Dr. Eve Marder
  Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Neuroscience and Chair, Biology Department, Brandeis University
  President of the Society for Neuroscience
  
• Dr. Yoky Matsuoka
  Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, and Director, Neurobotics Laboratory, University of Washington
  
• Dr. Raja Parasuraman
  Professor of Psychology at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
  Director of the Graduate Program in Human Factors and Applied Cognition
• Dr. John A. Parmentola
  Director for Research and Laboratory Management, US Army
  
• Dr. Tomaso A. Poggio
  Eugene McDermott Professor at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Co-Director of the Center for Biological and Computational Learning; and Member, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
• Mr. Dean G. Popps
  Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, US Army
  
• Sergeant Major Kenneth O. Preston
  US Army
  
• Dr. Joel R. Primack
  Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz
  
• Dr. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath
  Founding Director of the National Brain Research Centre, India
  
• Dr. Betsy M. Rice
  Research Chemist, Weapons and Materials Research Directorate of the Army Research Laboratory, US Army
  
• Dr. Michelle Sams
  Director, US Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI)
  
• Dr. Stefan Schaal
  Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and the Neuroscience Program, University of Southern California (USC)
  Invited Researcher, ATR Human Information Sciences Laboratory, Japan
  
• Dr. William Swartout
  Director of Technology, USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT)
  Research Professor of Computer Science, USC
• Dr. Joe Z. Tsien
  Professor of Neurology and Co-Director, Brain Discovery Institute, Medical College of Georgia
  
• Dr. Robert Walker
  Assistant Deputy Minister (Science and Technology) of the Department of National Defence and the Chief Executive Officer of Defence R&D Canada
  
• General William S. Wallace
  Commanding General
  United States Army Training And Doctrine Command