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Appendix B: The Committee on Science, Security, and Prosperity Biographies
Appendix B: The Committee on Science, Security, and Prosperity Biographies
Pages 85-98
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Dr. Hennessy is a recipient of numerous medals, including the 2000 IEEE John von Neumann Medal and the 2000 ASEE Benjamin Garver Lamme Award.
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A graduate from West Point, his 29-year military career in the Air Force included service as Deputy National Security Advisor; as Professor of Russian History at West Point; as Assistant Air Attaché in Belgrade, Yugoslavia; as Head of the Political Science Department at the Air Force Academy; in Air Force Long Range Plans; in the Office of the Secretary of Defense International Security Assistance; as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and as Military Assistant to President Nixon. Out of uniform, he continued in a public policy capacity by serving on the President's Advisory Committee on Arms Control, the Commission on Strategic Forces, and the President's Special Review Board, also known as the Tower Commission.
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He also served on the Defense Science Board study on the Acquisition of National Security Space Programs and on the Missile Defense Agency Independent Review of missile defense system test failures in the mid-2000s.
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Canizares Claude Canizares is the Vice President for Research and Associate P rovost at MIT and the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics there. He has overall responsibility for research activity and policy at the Institute, overseeing more than a dozen interdisciplinary research laboratories and centers, including the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Broad Institute, the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, the Research Laboratory of Electronics, the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology, the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, the Haystack Observatory, and the Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
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Dr. Cassell has received national and international awards and an honorary degree for her research in infectious diseases.
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Epstein Gerald Epstein is Senior Fellow for Science and Security in the Homeland Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he is working on issues that include biological weapons threats and potential tensions between the scientific research and national security communities. He is also an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
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John Gage John Gage is one of the founders of Sun Microsystems and served as Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office of Sun until this year. Today, he is a Greentechnology partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that helped create Sun, Google, Netscape, Genentech, Ausra, Bekon, and many other technology pioneers.
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Professor Jones is a fellow of several professional societies and she has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees by Carnegie Mellon University and Duke University. She has been awarded the Department of Defense Award for Distinguished Public Service, the Ada Lovelace Award from the Association of Women in Computing, and the Founder's Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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. As general counsel she had responsibility for advising the S ecretary of Defense and his leadership team on the breadth of legal and policy issues that came before the department, including mergers and acquisitions, international affairs and intelligence matters, operations law, acquisition and business reform, major procurements, significant litigation, and investigations.
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An expert in biological defense and medical research, Parker recently retired as commanding general of the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (MRMC) in Fort Detrick, Maryland, where he was responsible for the Army's medical research, product development, technology assessment, rapid prototyping, medical logistics management, health facility planning, medical information management, and advanced technology.
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While at the international law firm of Bryan Cave, LLP, Dean Rindskopf Parker counseled clients on public policy and international trade issues, particularly in the areas of encryption and advanced technology, U.S.-Sino relations, and nuclear non-proliferation. Dean Rindskopf Parker is a leading expert on anti-terrorism law.
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in 1995, Ms. Siemer was in private law practice for 15 years as a partner at the Washington, D.C., firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and in the Washington office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.
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Wallerstein served on the faculty at MIT, and from 1991 to 1997, he was an adjunct professor at the Paul H Nitze School for Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University; and he was Distinguished Research Professor at the National Defense University from 1997 to 1998.
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