Committee: Depicting Innovation in Information Technology

Committee Membership Information


Project Title:	Depicting Innovation in Information Technology
PIN:	CSTB-L-08-02-A
Major Unit:	Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Sub Unit:	DEPS Computer Science & Telecommuncations Board
RSO:	Meyer, Emily Ann
Subject/Focus Area:	Computers and Information Technology

Committee Membership

Date Posted: 03/05/2009

Dr. Peter Lee - (Chair)
Microsoft Corporation

Peter Lee is a Distinguished Scientist and the Managing Director of Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. Prior to taking his position at Microsoft, Dr. Lee worked at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he was the founding director of the Transformational Convergence Technology Office. Prior to DARPA, Dr. Lee was a professor and the head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Peter Lee's research contributions are in areas related to the foundations of software reliability, program analysis, security, and language design. A Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, and Former Chair of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association, Peter Lee is called upon in diverse venues as a contributor in research, education, and policy making. He conducted his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Mark E. Dean
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

Mark E. Dean (NAE) is vice president of systems at IBM Almaden Research Center. Previously, he was an IBM fellow and vice president of systems research, and was responsible for the research and application of systems technologies spanning circuits to operating environments. Key technologies in his research team include cellular systems structures (Blue Gene), digital visualization, DA tools, Linux optimizations for Pervasive, SMPs & Clusters, Settop Box integration, MXT, S/390 & PowerPC processors, super dense servers, formal verification methods and high speed low power circuits. Prior to that, Dr. Dean was responsible for the IBM Austin Research Laboratory (ARL) in Austin, Texas. The primary focus of the laboratory is the development of high performance microprocessors, systems and software, including the circuits, tools and micro-architectures to support high frequency operation. Other ARL research activities include high MIPS/milliwatt embedded controllers, full system simulation, formal verification, design for manufacturability and low temperature cooling methods. Throughout his 20 year career with IBM, Dr. Dean has held several engineering positions in the area of computer system hardware architecture and design. He worked on establishing the strategy, architecture, design and business plan for proposed video server offerings and studied the technology and business opportunity for settop boxes. In addition, he has papers published in the IEEE Computer Society Press, MIT Press, and IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin. Dr. Dean was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for innovative and pioneering contributions to personal computer development. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. Deborah L. Estrin
University of California, Los Angeles

Deborah L. Estrin is a Professor of Computer Science at UCLA and is Director of the NSF-funded Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS). Before joining UCLA she was a member of the University of Southern California Computer Science Department from 1986 through the middle of 2000. She is also a member of the Computer Networks. In 1987, Dr. Estrin received the National Science Foundation, Presidential Young Investigator Award for her research in network interconnection and security. During the subsequent 10 years much of her research focused on the design of network and routing protocols for very large, global, networks, such as: scalable multicast routing and transport protocols, self-configuring protocol mechanisms for scalability and robustness, and tools and methods for designing and studying large scale networks. Since the late 90's Dr. Estrin has been collaborating with her colleagues and students to develop protocols and systems architectures needed to realize rapidly-deployable and robustly operating networks of many hundreds of physically-embedded devices, e.g., sensor networks. She is particularly interested in the application of spatially and temporally dense embedded sensors to environmental monitoring. Dr. Estrin has been a co-PI on many NSF and DARPA funded projects. She chaired a 1997-98 ISAT study on sensor networks and the 2001 NRC study on Networked Embedded Computing which produced the report Embedded Everywhere. Dr. Estrin serves on the Advisory Committees for the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Environmental Research and Education (ERE) Directorates. She was recently selected to join the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of The National Academies. Dr. Estrin is a fellow of the ACM, AAAS and the IEEE. She has served on numerous panels for the NSF, National Academy of Sciences/NRC, and DARPA. She has also served as an editor for the ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networks, and as a program committee member for many networking related conferences, including Sigcomm and Infocom. She is General Co-Chair for the first ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Sensys 2003. She is also an Associate Editor for the new ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks and a member of the National Academies Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) from 2004 to the present. In 2009, Dr. Estrin was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for the pioneering design and application of heterogeneous wireless sensing systems for environmental monitoring. She received her Ph.D. (1985) in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her M.S. (1982) from M.I.T. and her B.S. (1980) from U.C. Berkeley.

Dr. James T. Kajiya
Microsoft Corporation

James T. Kajiya (NAE) is currently a director of research at Microsoft Corporation. From 1994 to 1997, Dr. Kajiya was a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, where he built and led the graphics group. His recent work has focused on very high-quality computer graphics. This work has included nonlinear anti-aliasing algorithms for the display of text on raster screens; invention of several new techniques for ray-tracing primitives such as swept volumes, parametric patches and fractal surfaces; an early paper on volume rendering; a hierarchical bounding box technique for accelerating ray tracing; the introduction of anisotropic light reflection models for surfaces; the introduction of algebraic geometry in patch computations; a new technique extending the ray-tracing process via an integral equation, or Monte Carlo algorithm, called the rendering equation; and a solution to the problem of rendering fuzzy surfaces. Most recently, Dr. Kajiya has returned to graphics hardware design. He was the principal architect on Talisman, a low-cost hardware architecture for very high-quality real-time 3-D graphics. Dr. Kajiya also served as the principal investigator on a joint research project with IBM that produced an implementation of Prolog yielding a speed of 0.9 megalips and a new object-oriented systems programming language called FITH. In other work, he explored parallel ray tracing on the IBM RP3 and specified software architecture for scientific visualization in the IBM SVS, which became the Power Visualisation Station. In joint work with TRW, he has served as architect for the FISC-1 and FISC-2 machines, supercomputers oriented toward military signal and image-processing tasks. Dr. Kajiya has served on the external advisory board of the Defense Mapping Agency, on the National Neurocircuitry Database Committee for the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine, and on the SIGGRAPH executive committee. He received the SIGGRAPH Technical Achievement Award in 1991 and served as the technical program chair for SIGGRAPH 93. In 1997, Dr. Kajiya, along with Dr. Timothy Kay, received an Academy Award (technical certificate) for work on rendering hair and fur. In 2002 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to formal and practical methods of computer image generation. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah.

Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan
Yahoo! Research

Prabhakar Raghavan (NAE) has been Head of Yahoo! Research since July 2005. His research interests include text and web mining, and algorithm design. He is a Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM. Dr. Raghavan received his
Ph.D. from Berkeley and is a Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE. Prior to joining Yahoo, he was Senior
Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer at Verity; before that he held a number of technical and managerial positions at IBM Research.

Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi
Viterbi Group, LLC

Dr. Andrew Viterbi is a co-founder and retired Vice Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of QUALCOMM Incorporated. He spent equal portions of his career in industry, having previously co-founded Linkabit Corporation, and in academia as Professor in the Schools of Engineering and Applied Science, first at UCLA and then at UCSD, at which he is now Professor Emeritus. He is currently president of the Viterbi Group, a technical advisory and investment company. He also serves as a chaired Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. His principal research contribution, the Viterbi Algorithm, is used in most digital cellular phones and digital satellite receivers, as well as in such diverse fields as magnetic recording, voice recognition and DNA sequence analysis. More recently, he concentrated his efforts on establishing CDMA as the multiple access technology of choice for cellular telephony and wireless data communication. Dr. Viterbi has received numerous honors both in the U.S. and internationally. Among these are six honorary doctorates, from universities in Canada, Israel, Italy and the U.S., the Marconi International Fellowship Award, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell, the Claude Shannon and the James Clerk Maxwell Awards, the NEC C&C Award, the Eduard Rhein Foundation Award, the Christopher Columbus Medal, the Franklin Medal, the Robert Noyes Semiconductor Industry Award and the Millennium Laureate Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received an honorary title from the President of Italy and the National Medal of Science from the President of the United States. Viterbi serves on boards and committees of numerous non-profit institutions, including the University of Southern California, MIT Visiting Committee for Bioengineering, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Scripps Research Institute, Burnham Institute, Scripps Translational Science Institute and the National Academies’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.

Committee Membership Roster Comments

Dr. Peter Lee resigned as the chair of the Depicting Innovation in Information Technology Committee in January as he took a two year appointment with DARPA.
Dr. Eugene Spafford accepted the position of chair of the committee on November 14, 2009.
Dr. Eugene Spafford resigned from the position of chair of the committee on January 11, 2011.
Dr. Peter Lee was reappointed as chair of the Depicting Innovation in Information Technology Committee on February 1, 2011.