Rashid A. Chotani holds the positions of a senior scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, academic faculty at the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University and medical epidemiologist in the Preventive Medicine Department of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Dr. Chotani graduated from Eugenio Maria de Hostos, School of Medicine in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1991. After completing his training in general medicine in Pakistan, he spent two years as the chief medical officer, and public health advisor to the board, at the Cement Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan (1994-1995). Dr Chotani undertook hospital epidemiology and microbiology training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1998-1999), followed by training at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics in bio-medical engineering (1999-2000). Dr. Chotani received his Masters in Public Health from the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in 1996. Subsequently, he worked at the Maryland State Health Department as an infectious disease epidemiologist in the divisions of surveillance and vaccine preventable diseases (1997-1998). During the same year he completed a post-doctorate fellowship under Dr. D. A. Henderson in the Department of International Health at the SHPH-JHU. He has also received certification in Tropical Medicine and Public Health from SHPH-JHU (2000). Dr. Chotani's research has focused on the epidemiology of nosocomial infections and development of information technology tools to detect and predict infectious diseases, in particular pathogens on the bioterrorism list. Additionally, he is studying risk factors and epidemiology acute diarrhea, vitamin A deficiency, and areca nut use, indoor pollution among children in Pakistan as well as, working on leaded gasoline and road traffic accident policy related issues. Christian Davenport is an Associate
Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland -
College Park as well as a Senior Fellow and Director of Research
at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management.
Primary research interests include human rights violations, social
movements, measurement, and racism. He is the author of numerous
articles appearing in the American Political Science Review, the
American Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, the
Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science
Quarterly, the Journal of Political and Military Sociology, and
the Monthly Review (among others). One solo-edited volume has
recently been published: Paths to State Repression: Human Rights
Violations and Contentious Politics (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield.
2000), and he is currently working on a book entitled Rashomon
Effect in the Social Sciences: Contentious Politics, Data Generation
and the Importance of Perspective. K. Eric Drexler is a researcher
concerned with emerging technologies and their consequences for
the future. In the mid 1980s, he introduced the term 'nanotechnology'
to describe atomically precise molecular manufacturing systems
and their products. Advanced nanotechnologies will make possible
many dreams (and nightmares) first articulated in the literature
of science fiction. After presenting the basic concepts of molecular
manufacturing in a scientific paper (Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, 1981), he wrote
Engines of Creation (1986) to introduce a broad audience to
the prospect of advanced nanotechnologies -- their nature, promise,
and dangers -- and
Nanosystems (AAP 1992 Most Outstanding Computer Science Book)
to provide a graduate-level introduction to the fundamental physical
and engineering principles of the field. Mark S. Frankel, Ph.D., is director
of the Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program, where
he develops and manages the Association's activities related to
professional ethics, science and society, and science and law.
He is staff officer for two AAAS committees -- the Committee on
Scientific Freedom and Responsibility and the AAAS-American Bar
Association National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, and
editor of the Association's quarterly publication, Professional
Ethics Report. Louis W. Goodman has been Professor
and Dean since 1986 of American University's School
of International Service, the largest school of international
affairs in the United States. Prior to assuming this position,
he directed the Latin America Program at the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars (1981-1986), the Latin America and Caribbean
Program at the Social Science Research Council (1973-1978), and
served on the faculty of Yale University (1969-1973, 1978-1981).
He has served as President of the Association of Professional
Schools of International Affairs (1992) and the Chair of the Board
of Directors of the Public Policy and International Affairs Graduate
Scholarship Program for Minority Students (1999-present). Donald M. Kerr is the Deputy Director for Science and Technology at the Central Intelligence Agency. Previous to his position at the CIA, Dr. Kerr served as an Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was responsible for the Laboratory Division, which conducts forensic examinations; develops surveillance and tactical communications technologies; and supports law enforcement through research, training, and operational deployments. Dr. Kerr has held several key positions in private industry. From 1996 to 1997, he was Executive Vice President and Director at Information Systems Laboratories, Inc. From 1993 to 1996, he was Corporate Executive Vice President and Director at Science Applications International Corporation. Dr. Kerr was President and Director of EG&G, Inc. from 1989 to 1992. He had also served as Senior Vice President and Executive Vice President, respectively, at EG&G from 1985 to 1989. Dr. Kerr was Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1979 to 1985. He had begun his career in 1966 at Los Alamos working in high altitude weapons effects, nuclear test detection, and ionospheric physics. Dr. Kerr is a Fellow of the AAAS and has served as a member of the DCI's Nonproliferation Advisory Committee, the Defense Science Board, and the DOD Treat Reductions Advisory Council. He is a member of the external review committee for the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories dealing with national security and arms control matters. Dr. Kerr received his B.E.E. in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1963 and went on to earn a M.S. in microwave electronics and a Ph.D. in plasma physics and microwave electronics at Cornell. John H. Marburger III has been confirmed by the Senate to serve as the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He is the former Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, a position he has held since March 1998. Prior to joining Brookhaven, Dr. Marburger led a distinguished career in both science and education. From 1980 to 1994, he served as President of Stony Brook University. In the fall of 1994, he returned to the Stony Brook faculty, teaching and conducting research in optical science. Three years later, he became President of Brookhaven Science Associates - a partnership founded by Stony Brook University and Battelle, a nonprofit applied science and technology organization - which was awarded the contract to manage and operate Brookhaven Lab for the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Marburger received a B.A. in physics from Princeton University in 1962 and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University in 1967 Kevin McCurley is President of
the International Association for Cryptologic Research,
and a former member of the President's Export Council Subcommittee
on Encryption. He is a Research Staff Member at the Computer Science
Department at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.
Jonathan D. Moreno is the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics. Dr. Moreno is also a member of the National Human Research Protections
Advisory Committee, a senior consultant to the National Bioethics
Advisory Commission, Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy Institute
of Ethics at Georgetown University, and a Fellow of the Hastings
Center. Robert M. O'Neil is the Founding Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. He assumed the position in August, 1990, after serving five years as President of the University of Virginia. He continues as a member of the University's law faculty, teaching courses in constitutional and a new course on free speech and cyberspace. In 1963, after serving as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., O'Neil began three decades of teaching about free speech and press at the Universities of California (Berkeley), Cincinnati, Indiana, Wisconsin and Virginia. In addition to teaching, he has had a distinguished career in higher education administration, serving as Provost of the University of Cincinnati, Vice President of Indiana University for the Bloomington Campus, and President of the University of Wisconsin before coming to Virginia. He has chaired the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and served on the Executive Committee of the Association of American Universities. From 1992-99, he chaired Committee A (Academic Freedom and Tenure) of the American Association of University Professors, of which he was General Counsel in 1970-72 and again in 1990-92. He also now serves as a trustee or director of the Commonwealth Fund, the Fort James Corporation, the Media Institute, and Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA). A member of the Massachusetts Bar, O'Neil has argued cases before a number of Federal Courts of Appeals. A native of Boston, O'Neil holds three degrees from Harvard and honorary degrees from Beloit College and Indiana University. Anne A. Witkowsky is Director
of the CSIS Commission on Science and Security, a blue-ribbon
panel that is examining how best to integrate sound security measures
with the scientific missions of the Energy Department's national
laboratories. Prior to joining CSIS in October 2000, she served
as Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control at the National
Security Council (NSC), a position she held from February 1993.
At the NSC, Ms. Witkowsky was responsible for conventional arms
control and European security issues. From 1988 until joining
the NSC staff, she served in several capacities in the Office
of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). She began her career in government
as a Presidential Management Intern, which included rotational
assignments within OSD and the State Department. William A. Wulf was elected President of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in April 1997; he had previously served as Interim President beginning in July 1996. Together with the National Academy of Sciences, the NAE operates under a congressional charter and presidential orders that call on it to provide advice to the government on issues of science and engineering. Dr. Wulf is on leave from the University of Virginia, where he is a University Professor and the AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied Science. Among his activities at the University are a complete revision of the undergraduate Computer Science curriculum, research on computer architecture and computer security, and an effort to assist humanities scholars exploit information technology. In 1988-90 Dr. Wulf was on leave from the University to be Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) where he headed the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). CISE is responsible for computer science and engineering research as well as for operating the National Supercomputer Centers and NSFNET (the immediate precursor to the commercial Intrenet). Prior to joining Virginia, Dr. Wulf founded Tartan Laboratories and served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Wulf grew the company to about a hundred employees. Tartan developed and marketed optimizing compilers, notably for Ada. Tartan was sold to Texas Instruments in 1995. The technical basis for Tartan was research by Dr. Wulf while he was a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University. At Carnegie-Mellon Dr. Wulf's research spanned programming systems and computer architecture; specific research activities included: the design and implementation of a systems-implementation language (Bliss), architectural design of the DEC PDP-11, the design and construction of a 16 processor multiprocessor and its operating system, a new approach to computer security, and development of a technology for the construction of high quality optimizing compilers. Dr. Wulf is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Corresponding Member of the Academia Espanola De Ingeniera. He is also a Fellow of four professional societies: the ACM, the IEEE, the AAAS, and AWIS. He is the author of over 100 papers and technical reports, has written three books, holds two US Patents, and has supervised over 25 Ph.D.'s in Computer Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.
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