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Personnel

Melvyn Ciment - Founder, Principal, Managing Member

Founder and Managing Member, The CS Cubed Group, (CSCG) providing strategic R&D consulting to science and technology performers and leaders in: academia, industry, government, and not-for-profit organizations in the development of cyberinfrastructure, computer and information science and technology research and education agendas, proposals and projects. Ciment serves as Principal Investigator for ASCEND, follow-on project to the Centers Development Initiative, a NSF-funded project to increase EPSCoR competitiveness in NSF’s large-scale programs by providing direct consulting services to EPSCoR universities.

Ciment has provided consulting services to strengthen proposals submitted to a wide variety of NSF Programs by numerous universities, including: University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Ohio Supercomputer Center, Drexel University, College of Information Science and Technology, Louisiana State University, North Dakota State University, Oklahoma University, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, University of Hawaii, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,  University of South Carolina,  and the University of Southern California: Information Sciences Institute,

Previously he:

• Served for 5 years as Senior Advisor in the Washington Office of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) providing policy guidance and scientific advice.
  
• Led in developing a NSF-supported proposal for HP-inspired workshop, “Accelerated Trustworthy Internetworking 2004”. He has provided consulting services to Dr. Stephen L. Squires, Chief Science Officer, HP, in organizing and executing a workshop program in the context of post 9-11 concerns for critical and pervasive applications with enhanced cyber-security.
• Served as a Senior Staff Consultant to The Implementation Group, developing enhanced competitive projects and program activities for a variety of academic and professional clients.
• Organized and lead review of proposals for the Cornerstone Program of Florida State University.  
• Provided consulting services to Erich Bloch, Principal, The Washington Advisory Group, on a variety of tasks in information technologies, and science and technology R&D programs, including benchmark analyses of the educational and research competitiveness of several major universities.

Dr Ciment completed his government service while serving for several years as Deputy Assistant Director for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF). While at NSF, Dr. Ciment served as founding Co-Chair of the Federal Information Services and Applications Council (FISAC) of the National Science and Technology Committee (NSTC). The FISAC is an interagency effort to develop an applied research program between the R&D community in government, academia and industry with the federal information services agencies. This R&D bridging effort was in collaboration between the NSTC and the Government Information Technology Service (GITS) Board. Dr. Ciment helped lead an effort to formulate a research agenda by convening a workshop "Towards the Digital Government of the 21st Century." This community building activity resulted in the development of a new NSF Digital Government Program.

From October 1995 to October 1996, Dr. Ciment was on special assignment, as a visiting scientist with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. During this period he also served as a consultant with the Council on Competitiveness (COC) and contributed to a COC study on R&D in the Information Technologies sector, as part of a larger study entitled, "Endless Frontier, Limited Resources: U.S. R&D Policy for Competitiveness".

Prior to coming to NSF, Dr. Ciment was a senior research scientist at the National Institutes for Standards and Technology and at the Naval Surface Weapons Center. He served as a Commerce Science and Technology Fellow with the U.S. Senate Commerce Science and Technology Committee from 1980-81. Dr. Ciment joined NSF in 1983 as a Program Director in Applied Mathematics. From 1986-91, he served as Deputy Director of the Division of Advanced Scientific Computing and helped establish the NSF Supercomputer Centers Program.

Dr. Ciment served on the Organizing Committee of the NSF Workshop on Large Scale Computing for Science and Engineering [Lax Report]. He also served on numerous Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) working groups on High Performance Computing and Communications(HPCC) including; Editor of the first HPCC Presidential Supplement, "Grand Challenges: High Performance Computing and Communications," and Co-Editor of the report, "Grand Challenges 1993: High Performance Computing and Communications."

Dr. Ciment received his bachelor's degree magna cum laude in mathematics from the University of Miami, and masters and doctoral degrees in mathematics from New York University. He also holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Washington College of Law of American University and is a member of the bar in Maryland, DC and Florida . Dr. Ciment was selected for inclusion in, "Who's Who in the USA " in 1995, and in "American Men and Women of Science" in 1978, and was elected to serve on the Council of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, from 1988-90.

 

Robert R. Borchers - Founder - Chief Scientist

Robert R. Borchers has a half time appointment as the Chief Technology Officer of the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) in Kihei, Maui, Hawai'i. MHPCC is an Air Force Research Laboratory Center managed by the University of Hawai'i.

Before joining the UH team at MHPCC, he was Division Director of the Advanced Computational Infrastructure and Research (ACIR) Division at the National Science Foundation from November 1993 to October 2001. The primary role of ACIR has been to fund and manage the NSF Supercomputer Centers program, which became the Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) in 1997, and to support research in various aspects of high performance computing. For his work in ACIR/NSF, he was given a Senior Executive Service – Presidential Rank, Meritorious Executive award in 2000.

Borchers joined NSF following a 15 year association with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he was first Deputy Director of the Magnetic Fusion Energy program, then Laboratory Associate Director for Computation and finally the first Director of the University Relations Office.

Prior to coming to LLNL, he had a 27 year career in academia with appointments at the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1962-1977) and the University of Colorado - Boulder (1977- 1979). He received a PhD degree in Physics from UW in 1962, following an honors Bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1958.

Over the years he has received numerous honors., including Alfred P. Sloan, Guggenheim and NSF fellowships. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has been listed in Who's Who in the U.S. since the 1970's.

In 1998 Borchers, Ciment and several others were the founding group for the Annual Supercomputing Conference and Borchers has worked on every conference since 1988, in a variety of volunteer positions, including General Conference Chair in 1993.

Rick Adrion - Affiliated Senior Consultant

Rick Adrion has over 40 years of experience in information and communications technology research, development and education. Over the last 25 years, he has served in various senior government positions. At the National Science Foundation, he held positions as Senior Advisor for CISE; Division Director of EIA/CISE; Senior Scientist for CISE; Deputy Director of Computer Research and Program Director for Networking, CSNET, Coordinated Experimental Research, Special Projects, and Theoretical Computer Science. At the National Institute for Standards and Technology, he was Manager of Software Engineering Group. Adrion served as an advisor or consultant for NSF, NIST, the National Library of Medicine, the National Institute Neurological Disorders and Strokes, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, the Office of Naval Research, the National Academy of Science, the National Research Council, the Superconducting Super Collider National Laboratory, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Council, the Science Foundation Ireland, the Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development, and the Internet Activities Board. He has consulted for ACSIOM Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, the National Bureau of Standards, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Applied Theory Associates, Inc., Tektronix, and Honeywell. He chaired and/or served on visiting committees for University of Illinois-Chicago, University at Stony Brook, University of Colorado-Boulder, Michigan State University, University of Utah, Temple University, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, University of Iowa, University of California Irvine, and the University of New Hampshire.

Adrion founded and, from 1988-2000, served as president and chair of the board of the Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts --- a corporation designed to transfer technology developed at the University of Massachusetts. He is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Co-Director of RIPPLES and Director of CRICCS. He was chair of the CS Department from 1986-1994. Previously, he held academic positions with The University of Texas, Austin, Oregon State University, the American University, Georgetown University, the University of California, Berkeley and the Universite' de Paris-Sud Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique. Adrion is a fellow of the ACM and of the AAAS.

James R. Bottum - Affiliated Senior Consultant

James R. Bottum became Purdue University's first vice president for information technology in August of 2001. He is responsible for planning and coordinating all computing and information systems across the university. He heads up the Office of the Vice president for Information Technology that reports jointly to the provost and the executive vice president and treasurer of Purdue University. Mr. Bottum was Executive Director forthe National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. NCSA was established in 1986 as part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Supercomputer Centers Program and receives support from NSF, the state of Illinois the University of Illinois, and other partners.

In 1997, NCSA became the leading-edge site for the National Computational Science Alliance, a partnership of more than 50 research institutions dedicated to prototyping the computing and information infrastructure of the twenty-first century to facilitate the advancement of science and engineering and ensure the pre-eminence of U.S. competitiveness worldwide.

Mr. Bottum started with NCSA in 1986. His responsibilities included overall management of operations at NCSA. Prior to his appointment at NCSA, Mr. Bottum was Associate Director of the Supercomputer Centers Program in the NSF's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing where he played a key role in the establishment of the Foundation's Advanced Scientific Computing Initiative, including the early plans for NSFnet. At NSF, Mr. Bottum was responsible for the oversight of the five NSF-sponsored supercomputer centers. The expertise he gained in this position was useful in facilitating the growth of NCSA.

Mr. Bottum has served on several national panels and committees, including the Coalition of Academic Supercomputing Centers (CASC) and the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Executive Committee. Prior to his work with NCSA and NSF, Mr. Bottum was involved in oversight of other national research centers, including the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Kitt Peak and Sac Peak National Observatories.

Mr. Bottum is a graduate of Florida State University and attended law school at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Thomas A. DeFanti - Affiliated Senior Consultant

Thomas A. DeFanti, PhD, is director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), a distinguished professor in the department of Computer Science, and director of the Software Technologies Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

DeFanti is an internationally recognized expert in computer graphics. In the 30 years he has been at UIC, DeFanti has amassed a number of credits, including: use of EVL hardware and software for the computer animation produced for the 1977 "Star Wars" movie; contributor and co-editor of the 1987 National Science Foundation-sponsored report "Visualization in Scientific Computing;" recipient of the 1988 ACM Outstanding Contribution Award; appointed an ACM Fellow in 1994; and appointed one of several USA technical advisors to the G7 GIBN activity in 1995. Currently, he is principal investigator of the NSF Science, Technology And Research Transit Access Point (STAR TAP/Starlight) and EuroLink initiatives to provide a persistent infrastructure to facilitate the long-term interconnection and interoperability of advanced international networking. He shares recognition along with EVL director Daniel J. Sandin for conceiving the CAVE virtual reality theater in 1991.

DeFanti has also been active in the ACM SIGGRAPH organization and in the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing (SC) conferences. Current and past activities include: secretary of SIGGRAPH (1977-1981); co-chair of the SIGGRAPH 79 conference; chair of SIGGRAPH (1981-1985); and continuing editor of the "SIGGRAPH Video Review" video publication, which he founded in 1979.

Douglas S. Gale - Affiliated Senior Consultant

Doug Gale, founder, Information Technology Associates, with more than 30 years of higher education and information technology experience, provides higher education and non-profit organizations assistance in utilizing information technology more effectively.

Dr. Gale understands the role of technology in higher education having served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at two research universities (the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and George Washington University) and as a tenured faculty member in both Computer Science and Physics. During his career he has authored over 80 publications and received $7.7 million dollars in external grants. His career also includes service as a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation where he received the Director’s Award for Program Officer Excellence for his work on the NSFNET initiative.

He in nationally recognized as one of higher education’s network visionaries have played a key role in the creation of the Internet, Internet2, and more recently national and regional dark fiber networks. An early advocate of higher education dark fiber networks, he has been the architect of two, the Third Frontier Network in the State of Ohio and the Five Colleges Dark Fiber Network in Massachusetts.

His practical experience in wide area networking includes designing and deploying two high performance campus networks as well as two regional networks (MIDnet and the Washington Research and Education Network) and managing a non-profit Internet Service Provider that provided Internet connectivity to over 88 colleges and universities and over two million end users.

Gale has served on the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Research and Education Networking (CREN) where he was Vice President, the Board of Directors of CAUSE where he was treasurer, the Board of Directors of the MINDS Institute that developed software for the K-12 sector, and the Akamai Technologies Education Advisory Board.

Gale received his Ph.D. in Physics from Kansas State University in 1972 and resides in Big Sky, Montana.

Robert Grossman - Affiliated Senior Consultant

Robert Grossman is the Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Computing (LAC) and the National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The Lab and Center perform research, sponsor standards, manage an international data mining testbed, and engage in outreach activities in the areas of data mining and data intensive computing.

Robert Grossman became a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1988 and is currently Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science and Professor of Computer Science. From 1984-1988 he was a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton in 1985 and a B.A. from Harvard in 1980. He currently holds a part time appointment at UIC.

Robert Grossman is also the Founder and CEO of Open Data Partners, LLC, which provides services and products so that businesses can use their data more effectively.

Robert Grossman is the Founder and Chairman of Magnify, Inc. Magnify’s software, services and hosted solutions provide out-sourced predictive analytics for financial services companies. The privately-held, venture-backed company is headquartered in Chicago.

Grossman is currently the spokesperson for the Data Mining Group (DMG), an industry consortium responsible for the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), an XML language for data mining and predictive modeling.

Grossman is on the advisory board of InfoBlox, a company providing network appliances.

He has published over 100 papers in refereed journals and proceedings on data mining, internet technologies, high performance computing, e-business, and related areas and edited six books. He is a frequent speaker and often participates on panels at conferences and shows about data mining, internet technologoies, data warehousing, knowledge discovery, and e-commerce.

Richard S. Hirsh – Affiliated Senior Consultant

Richard Hirsh has just completed two years as a Consultant and ICT Research Advisor to Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), an agency of the Irish government similar to a combination of both NSF and DARPA. SFI was founded in 2001 with the largest investment in research ever undertaken in Ireland, and is the outcome of an intensive study commissioned by the Irish government in 1998 that assessed the state of the Irish economy and its future. The panel concluded that for Ireland to maintain its unprecedented economic growth of the past 15 years, an additional strategic component of government investment was necessary to generate a knowledge-based economy in Ireland.

In his role at SFI Dr. Hirsh was responsible for reviewing all proposals submitted in many areas of Information and Communications Technology such as: software and applications; networking and communications; data technologies; and systems, including distributed or parallel systems. In addition to many individual investigator awards, he was instrumental in funding two large centers, the Irish Software Engineering Research Center, and the Irish Center for High End Computing.

Prior to leaving for Ireland in the summer of 2003, he spent 16 years at the National Science Foundation, 13 of them in the Division that has been variously called Advanced Scientific Computing, Advanced Computational Infrastructure (ACI), and currently is called the Office of Cyberinfrastructure. He has been Program Director in the New Technologies (subsequently Advanced Computational Research) program, Program Director for Centers in the program that funded the NSF Supercomputer Centers, Deputy Division Director, and Division Director of ACI from September 2001 until he retired from NSF in August 2003. His role was to oversee NSF's funding of its "Supercomputer Centers", stimulate the generation of new software and techniques for High-end computing (through the ACR program), coordinate NSF internal activities in computational science, and act as a liaison to other government agencies engaging in similar scientific pursuits.

He was responsible for effecting the NSF Centers move to encompass parallel systems in the early 90s; early funding of NCSA Mosaic; expanding the participation in the NSF Centers program through the Metacenter Regional Alliances initiative; and the creation of the Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure. In 2000 he wrote the solicitation for the first NSF Terascale systems. Early in his tenure he participated on the FCCSET team that laid the groundwork for the National HPCC Act of 1991, and in 2003 was on the High End Computing Revitalization Task Force that wrote the Federal Plan for High-End Computing.

While at NSF, he also had responsibility for other large, visible programs and initiatives other than supercomputing, such as the NSF Grand Challenge Application Groups, Multidisciplinary Challenges, and Science and Technology Centers. From December 1999 to January 2000, he served as the NSF Science representative at the South Pole.

Micthell K. Hobish – Affiliated Senior Consultant

Dr. Mitchell K. Hobish has been self-employed as a consultant for over 21 years, working at the interfaces between science, technology, business, and society. He has worked in many capacities on projects in basic research, strategic planning, education and outreach, documentation and publishing, organizing and running workshops and conferences, and lending his leadership and management skills to organizations in academia, the private sector, and state, federal, and international agencies, including NASA, NIST, DoD, DoE, NSF. USDA, and the United Nations.

Hobish’s wide-ranging interests and in-depth experiences in several sciences and technologies and the organizations that support such endeavors provide a unique tool set that has enabled him to work on projects that range from the molecular level to cosmological pursuits. Only a representative few will be summarized here.

Some of the molecular research projects with which he has been involved include studies of the physicochemical origins of genetic code and the origin of optical activity in biomolecules; analysis of ligand binding to biomacromolecules; characterization of nucleoprotein complexes and associated enzyme assemblies; the effects of drugs on RNA synthesis; and ultrasonic absorption properties of hemoglobins.

At mid-scales, Hobish has done contract work for the Office of Naval Research in areas relating to development of computational tools and interfaces for the dissemination and use of declassified Arctic ice-cover data, including making such tools accessible to and usable by middle-school curriculum developers. He also works with several university and industry groups exploring the potential for carbon sequestration to alleviate possible human contributions to global warming, and possible roles for palladium in hydrogen production for use as an alternative fuel. Hobish has been a co-founder of several science and technology-based organizations and businesses, and has applied his strategic planning skills in support of NASA’s Astrobiology Program and as a consultant on computer systems in research for UNESCO and UNDP at the Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka.

At larger scales, Hobish has worked with NASA and its support contractors on the Earth Observing System and the erstwhile Mission to Planet Earth on developing science requirements and supporting sensor technologies and calibration/validation issues; the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and the Cosmic Background Explorer as manager on ground support equipment development; and the International Space Station as project manager.

Employing the scientific, technical, and communications skills he has honed over the years, Hobish been a consultant, facilitator, reviewer, editor, or writer on over $195,000,000 of successful research and business proposals, with a sterling track record supporting his clients’ efforts to attract funding in response to SBIR/STTR Broad Agency Announcements, from many federal agencies, including EPSCoR solicitations.

Hobish also does educational and outreach work, reviewing materials for NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise and the AAAS Science Books & Films publication, and was visiting NASA faculty member at the Scientific Knowledge for Indian Learning and Leadership (SKILL) program at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD. He was the concept developer and content provider for NASA GSFC Visitor Center’s Earth Sciences Gallery; an advisor for Earth System Science scenario development at the Challenger Center in Greenbelt, MD; a writer and co-producer of instructional videos. Hobish has also been a faculty research associate in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD; an adjunct professor at the Merrick School of Business of the University of Baltimore; and an adjunct instructor at the College of Business of Montana State University – Bozeman. For six years, he also wrote a weekly newspaper column on science and technology.

Mitch received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from The Johns Hopkins University in 1982, and has earned a B.A. in English (with a minor in electrical engineering) from The University of Rochester (1971) and a B.S. in biology from Tulane University (1974).

Paul Messina - Affiliated Senior Consultant

Paul Messina has a part-time appointment as a Distinguished Senior Computer Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory and is a Fellow of the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago. He also holds the position of Visiting Research Scholar at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California. During 2002-2003 he served as Senior Advisor to the Director of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research).

In April 2002 he retired from his positions at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) of Assistant Vice President for Scientific Computing, Faculty Associate in Scientific Computing, and Director of Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research. During a leave from Caltech from January 1999 to December 2000, he was Director of the Office of Advanced Simulation and Computing for Defense Programs in the National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy. In that capacity he had responsibility for managing the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, the world’s largest scientific computing program, which was defining the state of the art in that field. From 1997 to 2002, he held the position of Chief Architect for the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), a partnership established by the National Science Foundation and led by the University of California, San Diego. In the mid 1990s he established and led the Scalable I/O Initiative (SIO), a large scale-effort to address input/output scalability issues in large-scale computing; the SIO had over 15 participating institutions. In the early 1990s he was the Principal Investigator and project manager of the CASA gigabit network testbed. During that period he also conceived, formed, and led the Consortium for Concurrent Supercomputing, which created and operated the Intel Touchstone Delta System, which was at that time the world’s most powerful scientific computer. He held a joint appointment at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as manager of High-Performance Computing and Communications from 1988 to 1998. From 1973 to 1987 he held a variety of positions at Argonne National Laboratory, with the last being Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division. His research interests focus on creating advanced computer and data handling environments for large-scale computing applications in science and engineering.

Messina received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1972 and his M.S. in applied mathematics in 1967, both from the University of Cincinnati, and his B.A. in mathematics in 1965 from the College of Wooster. In 2001 he received the U.S. Department of Energy’s Distinguished Associate Award.

In 1997 he was awarded an honorary degree in Computer Engineering by the University of Lecce, Italy, in recognition of his contributions to computational science. In 1993 he was awarded a plaque by the IEEE High-Performance Distributed Computing Conference for pioneering contributions to the field. In 1992 he received Federal Computer Week's ``Federal 100 Award'' for spearheading the acquisition of the Intel Touchstone Delta and overcoming politics and interagency rivalries in creating the Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium. FCW gives this award each year to recognize people from academia, government, and industry ``who have made a difference in the Federal systems community.''

William L. Scherlis - Affiliated Senior Consultant

William L. Scherlis is Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, and a member of CMU's International Software Research Institute (ISRI). He is the founding director of CMU's PhD Program in Software Engineering. He is Principal Investigator (with James H. Morris) of the five-year High Dependability Computing Project (HDCP) with NASA, in which CMU leads a collaboration with five universities to help NASA address long-term software dependability challenges. His research relates to software evolution, software assurance, and collaboration technology. Dr. Scherlis first joined the CMU faculty in 1980, after completing a PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University and an A.B. at Harvard University.

Scherlis is involved in a number of activities related to technology and policy, recently testifying before Congress on innovation, government information technology, and roles for a Federal CIO. He interrupted his career at CMU to serve at DARPA for six years, departing in 1993 as senior executive responsible for coordination of software research. While at DARPA he had responsibility for research and strategy in computer security, high performance computing, information infrastructure, and other topics.

Scherlis just completed chairing a National Research Council (NRC) study on information technology, innovation, and e-government, which released its final report in May 2002. He has led or participated in national studies related to crisis response, analyst information management, Department of Defense software management, and health care informatics infrastructure. He has served as program chair for a number of technical conferences, including the ACM Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) Symposium. He has more than 70 scientific publications.

Stephen L. Squires - Affiliated Senior Consultant

Dr. Stephen L. Squires is a consultant to industry, academia, and government in diverse areas of information technologies, information system security, and high performance computing and networking. He is a recognized IT expert with a demonstrated ability to provide leadership in formulating and translating long term visions into practical executable programs that build on existing and emerging science and technology.

He served as vice president and chief science officer for Hewlett-Packard Company with responsibility for providing leadership in establishing overall strategic scientific and technical directions, including the architecture of the digital renaissance for the 21st century Internet. During his five years at HP from November 2000 through January 2006, he made major contributions enabling HP to improve its position in National Security sectors. He led the Accelerating Trustworthy Internetworking and related community building activities in the aftermath of 9/11. He developed a Trusted Systems Initiative that provided important guidance to the HP information system security programs including its implications for HP Laboratories and HP Business. He introduced the concept of Critical and Pervasive Information Systems as essential to enabling sustained growth in the context of public and private sector information technology based systems. He also continued to work closely with DARPA and other parts of the US Government National Security Community. Most recently, he contributed to the vision and overall strategy for the National Terabits Initiative in the context of a Petaops Technology base within the US Government focused on enabling Integrated Reality.

Prior to joining HP in November 2000, Squires was the special assistant for Information Technology to the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). During his career at DARPA, he was responsible for advancing the frontier of progressively larger sectors of information technology. He developed plans for, managed, and directed the scalable systems parts of the DARPA Strategic Computing Program, the Federal High Performance Computing and Communications Program and its extension to the National Information Infrastructure. These programs are recognized as having helped enable the modern Internet, including its scalable parallel and distributed high-performance computing systems and the introduction of an explicit service layer. He formulated the vision and framework for the DARPA Bio/Info/Micro Initiative that became the foundation for the Nano-technology programs. He joined DARPA in 1983 as a program manager.

Squires was recruited by the National Security Agency (NSA) as a freshman undergraduate electrical engineering student at Drexel University. He worked as an engineering intern in the advanced computing and communications laboratories of the NSA. Throughout his career as an electrical engineer and computer scientist at NSA, gaining early access to the full range of advanced technologies as they emerged, including many in cooperation with DARPA, such as early interactive time sharing systems with graphics, UNIX, ARPAnet, extensible programming systems, local area networks, the early Internet, personal computing, VLSI design, rapid prototyping and the highest performance information system technologies. Squires earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University.