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Appendix: Contributors
Pages 119-126

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... He is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society and the recipient of numerous awards, including Texas A&M University Faculty Fellow (2001) and Montague Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar (1995~.
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... in industrial engineering and operations research from Virginia Tech (1987~. Prior to attending graduate school, he spent one year as a research scientist at the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory Advanced Simulation Techniques Branch and four years as a human factors engineer and senior human factors engineer for Martin-Marietta Aerospace.
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... Since his arrival at the University of Maryland in 1999, Dr. Kane has devoted his attention to developing experimental methods for single spin detection using single electron transistors and scanned probe techniques on doped silicon devices.
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... He has received numerous awards, including the Helmholtz Award from the Federal Technical Institute (PTB) in Braunschweig, Germany, for a new determination of the Rydberg constant, and a START award from the Austrian Fonds zur Forderung der Wissenschaften, the highest award in Austria for junior researchers, for work in the field of quantum information.
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... He is on the editorial boards of several journals and a member of the Committee for Human Factors of the National Research Council/The National Academies. He has applied his extensive research on cognitive work analysis and human-computer interface design for complex sociotechnical systems to a number of diverse domains, including animation, aviation, engineering design, medicine, network management, nuclear power, and petrochemical processes.
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... All four international standards for digital cellular telephony use the Viterbi algorithm for interference suppression, as do most digital satellite communication systems, both for business applications and for direct satellite broadcast to residences. (andrew.viterbi@ viterbigroup.com)
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