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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 174-182

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... , and chairman of the MIT Sloan Management Review. His research examines the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity and performance, Internet commerce, pricing models, and intangible assets.
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... His research interests are generally in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience. His recent research has focused both on machine learning approaches to extracting structured information from unstructured text and on studying the neural representation of language in the human brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging.
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... , Information and Organization, Engineering Studies, and the Journal of Organizational Ethnography. He has been the recipient the Academy of Management's New Concept Award and was named Distinguished Scholar by the Academy of Management's Organization and Management Theory Division (2006)
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... in social psychology in 1990 from the University of California, Davis. MELISSA CEFKIN is a principal scientist and design anthropologist at the Nissan Research Center, Silicon Valley, where she focuses on the development of autonomous vehicles from a social and cultural standpoint.
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... His work with the statistical agencies has been recently recognized in his being awarded the Julius Shiskin Award for economic statistics in 2013 and the Roger Herriott Award for innovation in federal statistics in 2014. He has published more than 100 academic articles and numerous books, including Job Creation and Destruction (with Steven Davis and Scott Schuh)
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... He has co-authored more than 450 journal articles and book chapters and has co-edited 27 books. His expertise includes assisting organizations in how to foster teamwork, design and implement team training strategies, facilitate training effectiveness, manage decision making under stress, develop performance measurement tools, and create a safety culture.
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... Her previous macroeconomic research focused on the political economy of exchange rates and exchange rate volatility in the Commonwealth Caribbean, the motivation for her M.S. thesis and a joint-publication at the Inter-American Development Bank.
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... drew widespread interest in the scientific and education communities. In 2011 and 2012, she directed two large national summits -- one on community college STEM education and one on assessment of informal and afterschool science learning.
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... For the National Academies' Committee on National Statistics, she directed a study of a large database of occupational information. Prior to joining the National Academies staff, as an analyst at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, Ms.


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