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Appendix F: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 213-218

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... Following a faculty position at Pennsylvania State University, he joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) , first as director of the Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction Division, then as director of NCAR.
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... Arms is a professor of computer science at Cornell University. Although his background is in mathematics and operational research, his career has focused on applying computing to academic activities, particularly educational computing, computer networks, and digital libraries.
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... General Hoover currently chairs the NRC's Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board. lessica Litman is a professor of law at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where she teaches courses in copyright law, Internet law, trademarks, and unfair competition.
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... Nathan has spent the past five years developing strategies for allowing businesses sensitive to the vagaries of weather to protect themselves against changes in costs and sales linked to variations in climate. Prior to working in the weather derivatives industry, he spent five years as an associate professor of finance at Northeastern Oklahoma State University and five years as a manager at Grindiays ANZ Bank in Bombay, India.
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... Karen R Sollins is a principal research scientist in the Advanced Network Architecture Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS)
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... Shannon Ruddy is a senior project assistant with the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources at the National Research Council. She holds a B.A.
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