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Appendix C: Presenter Biographies
Pages 80-90

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From page 80...
... Dr. Brooks served for many years as a member of the International Scientific Advisory Group of National Information and Com munication Technology Australia and on the Global Innovation and Technology Advisory Council of John Deere & Co.
From page 81...
... He was cofounding editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision and is a member of the editorial boards of various journals, including Adaptive Behavior, Artificial Life, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Robots, and New Generation Computing. He starred as himself in the 1997 Errol Morris movie "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control," named for one of his scientific papers.
From page 82...
... Dr. Cerf has received numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the NAE, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the A.M.
From page 83...
... Dr. Goldsmith is a fellow of the IEEE and of Stanford University, and she has received several awards for her work, including the IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society joint paper award, the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award, the NAE Gilbreth Lecture Award, the IEEE ComSoc Communications Theory Technical Achievement Award, the IEEE ComSoc Appendix C 83
From page 84...
... She has been a distin guished lecturer for both societies, served as the president of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2009, founded and chaired the student committee of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and currently chairs the Emerging Technology Committee and is a mem ber of the Strategic Planning Committee in the IEEE Communications Society. At Stanford, she received the inaugural University Postdoc Mentoring Award and has been active in committees to innovate and revise both graduate and undergraduate education universi ty-wide.
From page 85...
... He has been an active advocate for how basic research can be uniquely central to an innovation ecosystem that drives global competitiveness and addresses national priorities. He received numerous awards for his innovative research, commitment to education, and technology commercialization activities.
From page 86...
... Besides Glass, his projects include a wireless glove that teaches how to play piano melodies without active attention by the wearer; a game for deaf children using sign language recognition that helps them acquire language skills; creating wearable computers to enable two-way communication experiments with wild dolphins; making wearable computers for working dogs to bet ter communicate with their handlers; recovering phrase-level sign language from brain signals; and recognizing speech without vocalizing.
From page 87...
... His research on social networks and collective dynamics has appeared in a wide range of journals, including Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters, the American Journal of Sociology, and Harvard Business Review. He has been recognized by the 2009 German Physical Society Young Scientist Award for Socio and Econophysics, the 2013 Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize for Complexity Science, and the 2014 Everett Rogers Prize.
From page 88...
... Dzau is president. The three Academies work together as the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to provide independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation and conduct other activities to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions.
From page 89...
... Public Response to Alerts and Warnings Using Social Media: Summary of a Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research Gaps (2013) Continuing Innovation in Information Technology (2012)


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