Edward Frank

Trustee Co-chair
Vice President
Apple, Inc.

Dr. Edward (Ed) Frank is currently a Vice President at Apple, Inc. Prior to Apple he was Corporate Vice President Research and Development at Broadcom, where he was responsible for Broadcom's overall engineering execution and played a key role in corporate business and IP strategy. Prior to becoming Corporate VP of R&D, Dr. Frank co-founded and led the engineering group for Broadcom's Wireless LAN business, which is now one of Broadcom's largest business units. Dr Frank joined Broadcom in May 1999 following its acquisition of Epigram, Inc., where he was the founding CEO and Executive Vice President. From 1993 to 1996, he was a co-founder and Vice President of Engineering of NeTpower Inc., a computer workstation manufacturer. From 1988 to 1993, Dr. Frank was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he co-architected several generations of Sun's SPARCstations and was a principal member of Sun's Green Project, which developed the precursor to the Java(tm) cross-platform web programming language. Dr. Frank holds over 40 issued patents.

He is a Life Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University and a member of its Board's Executive Committee.

Dr. Frank received a B.S.E.E. and an M.S.E.E. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Peter D. Blair

Academic Co-chair
Executive Director, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
National Research Council (NRC)  

Peter D. Blair is executive director of the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences of the National Research Council (NRC) in Washington, DC. Dr. Blair is responsible for the NRC’s technology and policy program portfolio in defense, space and aerospace, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, materials, physics, astronomy, mathematics, information technology, and telecommunications. He also directed the NRC’s America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation series of studies, initiated in the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering at the request of Congress to inform the national debate about the role of science and technology in shaping the nation’s energy future. 

From 1992 to 1996, Dr. Blair served as Assistant Director of the of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) and director of its Division of Industry, Commerce, and International Security and earlier as OTA’s energy research program manager.  He was executive director of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, and publisher of American Scientist from 1997 to 2001.  Dr. Blair was cofounder (in 1978) and principal of Technecon Analytic Research, Inc., which was acquired by the Reading Energy Corporation in 1985. He served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania (1976–1996) and as an adjunct faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1997–2001).

Dr. Blair is the author or coauthor of the books Multiobjective Regional Energy Planning, Geothermal Investment Decision Analysis, and Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions; and co-edited Trends in Industrial Innovation: Industry Perspectives & Policy Implications.  He has authored over a hundred technical articles in areas of energy and environmental policy, electric power systems, operations research, economics and regional science, and science policy.

Dr. Blair has served on numerous boards and committees including the National Institute for Statistical Sciences, NRC’s Board on Assessment of NIST Programs, various NRC study committees, and advisory committees for national laboratories.  He is a fellow of the AAAS and received OTA’s distinguished service award in 1991.

Dr. Blair holds a B.S. in engineering from Swarthmore College (1973) and graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania: M.S.E. in systems engineering (1974) and M.S. (1975) and Ph.D. (1976) in energy management and policy.

Susan Bailey (CIT '83, 88)

Vice President, Architecture and Network Realization
AT & T

Dr. Susan (Bobbi) R. Bailey is Vice President - Architecture and Network Realization at AT&T.  She began her career in AT&T as a Member of Technical Staff in the Quality Engineering and Software Technologies Department of AT&T Bell Laboratories and is now a technical leader with 20 years of experience in developing, deploying and operating advanced communications technologies and support systems. She has held numerous positions in planning, network operations, and product research and development.

In her current role, Dr. Bailey is responsible for defining the strategic target architecture for all layers of AT&T’s wireline and wireless network, operational support systems and business support systems. Her team also defines networking and mobility solution architectures, which are specific designs that drive toward the target architecture. Dr. Bailey is also responsible for overall product realization support.

In prior assignments, Dr. Bailey has served as Vice President of Global Network Operations and Planning.  She has held positions in process engineering, hardware and software design, systems engineering, and product architecture.

Dr. Bailey has represented AT&T’s technical interest in network management policy-making with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and state Public Utility Commissions. She has been a member of the FCC’s Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC), the Advisory Board for New York University’s Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), and the Advisory Board for University of Texas – El Paso’s College of Engineering and Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Engineering and Public Policy. She is active in support of AT&T’s board representation on the National Action Council for Minority Engineers. She is a frequent spokesperson for AT&T in forums with Fortune 500 companies, as well as government defense and intelligence organizations. She also supports AT&T’s involvement in the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME).

Dr. Bailey earned her bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1983 and her doctorate in Engineering and Public Policy in 1988, both from Carnegie Mellon University.

Susan Everingham

Director, RAND Pittsburgh
RAND Corporation

Susan Everingham became the Director of RAND’s Pittsburgh office in October, 2008.  This office, established in 2001, is the home for nearly 200 staff members.

A senior operations research analyst, Susan joined RAND in 1988.  She has been involved in a diverse array of studies, mainly in defense and criminal justice.  She specializes in the mathematical modeling of complex systems as well as cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness. Previously, she directed RAND’s International Programs, which consists of five internationally-focused centers that support RAND’s globalization agenda.  She has also served in several management roles in RAND’s National Security Research Division, and is a Professor in the Pardee RAND Graduate School. 

Since moving to Pittsburgh, she has become very involved the community, including serving as a fellow of the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute of Politics and on the boards of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, the Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania, the Carnegie Science Center, POWER, the Pittsburgh Regional Business Coalition for Homeland Security, and the Regional Indicators project.

She earned a B.A. in mathematics and biology from Williams College, and an M.A. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Robert Fri

Visiting Scholar
Resources for the Future

Bob Fri has been active for more than 35 years as both an administrator and analyst of energy and environmental policy. As the first deputy administrator of both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Research and Development Administration, he was instrumental in organizing the federal government’s programs in environmental regulation and energy technology. He served as president of Resources for the Future and of the National Museum of Natural History during major transitions in the role of these institutions. 

M.B.A., Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration

Manuel Heitor

Secretary of State of Science, Technology and Higher Education
Portugal Instituto Superior Técnico

Currently the Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education in Portugal, Manuel Heitor was the founding director of the Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), the engineering school of the Technical University of Lisbon.  After completing in 1985 a PhD at the Imperial College, London, and a post-doctoral training in 1986 at the University of California San Diego, both focused on combustion research, he has served as a Professor at IST, as well as its Deputy-President (1993-1998). He is also a Research Fellow of the University of Texas at Austin’s Innovation, Creativity, and Capital (IC2) Institute. He has been published widely.  Books, such as Combusting Flow Diagnostic and Unsteady Combustion, have made significant contributions to science. He chaired during the period 1996-2005 the Organizing Committee of the series of International Conferences on “Technology Policy and Innovation”, and his co-editor of a related book series launched through Greenwood Publishers, Connecticut and continued through Purdue University Press. He is also on the editorial boards for several journals, including Technological Forecasting and Social Change and the International Journal of Technology, Policy, and Management. In 2005, the IST “Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research,” of which he was the founding director, was named one of the top 50 global centers for research on “Management of Technology” by the International Association of Management of Technology, IAMOT.

His research work includes publications in the area of the management of technology and the development of engineering and innovation policies and engineering design. At the OECD he has represented Portugal in the project “Steering and Funding of Public Research” and in the “Futures Programme.”  In 2003 he coordinated a national exhibition on “Engineering in Portugal in the 20th century,” which was awarded with the Dibner Award of the Society for the History of Technology, SHOT. He was co-founder in 2002 of “Globelics - the global network for the economics of learning, innovation, and competence building systems.” He is a member of the Science and Technology Council of the “International Risk Governance Council”, IRGC.

Received his Ph.D. from the Imperial College, London.

Kathryn Jackson (CIT '87, '90)

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Westinghouse Electric Company LLC

Kathryn J. Jackson is currently senior vice president and chief technology officer at Westinghouse Electric Company, responsible for leading the company's research and development activities. She also leads the company's environmental sustainability initiatives aimed at minimizing the impact of global business activities on the environment.

Previously Dr. Jackson held the position of vice president of Strategy, Research and Technology at Westinghouse, responsible for the development of technology-based growth strategies.

Dr. Jackson joined Westinghouse from Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), where she was the executive vice president of River System Operations and Environment and the corporate environmental officer. In her 17 years with TVA, she was responsible for the management of the 6,000 megawatt hydropower system, flood control, navigation, dam safety, public lands management, environmental services, and research and development activities.

Formerly, Dr. Jackson worked for Alcoa Corporation as a technology forecaster and was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Jackson serves on the board of directors for ISO New England, Inc., responsible for operating New England's bulk power system and wholesale electricity market and managing the region's comprehensive planning processes. Dr. Jackson is also an advisor to Carnegie Mellon University's Engineering School and the Complex Engineered Systems program, and is on the advisory board of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center. Previously she served on the board of directors of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), as well as its Governance & Nominating and Executive committees.

Dr. Jackson earned a bachelor's degree in Physics from Grove City College, holds a master's degree in Industrial Engineering Management from the University of Pittsburgh and master's and doctorate degrees in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

Oliver Morton

Energy and Environment Editor
The Economist

Oliver Morton is a writer and editor who concentrates on scientific knowledge, technological change and their effects. He is currently the Energy and Environment Editor at The Economist. 

From 2005 to 2009 he was Chief News and Features Editor at Nature, the world’s leading interdisciplinary science journal, supervising its journalistic output in print and online.  From 1995 to 1997 he was editor in chief of Wired UK, Wired’s European sister magazine, and from 1991 to 1995 he was editor of The Economist’s Science and Technology section.

In his freelance career he has been a contributing editor at Wired and at Newsweek International. His writing has appeared in magazines including The New Yorker, National Geographic, Discover, Time, The American Scholar, the New Scientist and Prospect, as well as in newspapers including The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal.

His first book, Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World was published in 2002 by Picador (US) and Fourth Estate (UK). It deals with scientific and other ways of understanding a place that cannot at present be visited. It was shortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Award and the British Science Fiction Award for best related book. He was also one of the authors of SAFE, a book on technology and terrorism published by HarperCollins in 2005. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet, was published by Fourth Estate in the UK in 2007. Listed as one of the “Ten Best Nature Books” in The Independent, and as a book of the year in The Spectator and the TLS, the reviewer Jon Turney wrote that it contains “everything you could possibly want from a popular science book. There is wonder here, and intellectual excitement; clear explanation and lyrical writing; and much new insight into how the world works.” He is currently working on a book about geoengineering.

While focusing in his current writing on climate policy and the energy business, as well as earth system science and other environmental issues, Oliver also maintains interests in molecular biology, fundamental physics, global public health issues, the technologies of manufacturing, entertainment and warfare, science fiction, and, now and then, industrial design. He has twice won the annual science writing award administered by the Association of British Science Writers, and has also won the David N. Schramm award from the American Astronomical Society and the Communications Award of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research. His articles have been anthologised in Best American Science Writing and Best American Science and Nature Writing, and his only published foray into science fiction was selected to appear in Year’s Best SF 11 (2006).  He has served as a consultant to the Near Earth Object working group of the International Astronomical Union and to the EU’s New and Emerging Science and Technology programme. He’s a founding fellow of the Hybrid Vigor Institute, a not-for-profit organisation devoted to studying and fostering successful interdisciplinary research, and a member of the World Technology Network. He has made numerous appearances on radio and television, and spoken at many conferences and other events on a range of issues. Asteroid 10716 Olivermorton is named in his honour.

Oliver has a degree in the history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University.

Cherry Murray

Dean, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University

Cherry Murray became Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science and John A. and Elisabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Professor of Physics in July, 2009.  As Dean, she manages new faculty recruitment and faculty relations; directs and leads strategic planning; coordinates fundraising and alumni relations; determines and implements educational, research, and administrative goals for the most recent new School of Harvard.  Previous to that she was Deputy Director and then Principal Associate Director for Science and Technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from December 2004. She led the Laboratory's science and technology activities including management of 3500 scientists and engineers and the development of the strategic science and technology plan. Formally Senior Vice President for Physical Sciences and Wireless Research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Dr. Murray first joined Bell Labs in 1978.

She is a member of the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Murray is on the board and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), as well as fellow and Past President of the American Physical Society (APS). She chairs the National Research Council Division of Engineering and Physical Science and served on the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.

Dr. Murray received her BS and Ph.D. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dava Newman

Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Dava Newman is a Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT and affiliate faculty in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program. She is also a MacVicar Faculty Fellow and Director of the Technology and Policy Program at MIT.

She leads the MIT–Portugal Program’s Bioengineering Systems effort. Dr. Newman specializes in investigating human performance across the spectrum of gravity. She was Principal Investigator (PI) for the Space Shuttle Dynamic Load Sensors (DLS) experiment that measured astronaut-induced disturbances of the microgravity environment on mission STS-62. An advanced system, the Enhanced Dynamic Load Sensors experiment, flew on board the Russian Mir space station from 1996–1998. Dr. Newman was a Co-Investigator on the Mental Workload and Performance Experiment (MWPE) that flew to space on STS-42 to measure astronaut mental workload and fine motor control in microgravity. She is an expert in the areas of extravehicular activity (EVA), physics-based modeling, biomechanics, energetics, human-robotic cooperation, and space policy. As a Co-I for NSBRI, her finite element modeling work provided NASA the first 3D representation of bone loss and loading for partial gravity missions.

She has an active research program in advanced EVA including advanced space suit design, human-robotic systems, and biomedical devices. Her exoskeleton innovations are now being applied to “soft suits” to study and enhance locomotion on Earth for children with Cerebral Palsy. Dr. Newman published an Engineering Design text and CDROM (2002). She was named one of the Best Inventors of 2007 for her BioSuit™ system by Time Magazine. Her BioSuit™ system has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Super Heroes show (May-Sept. 2008); the Boston Museum of Science (Fall 2008, Summer 2009); the London Museum of Science and Industry (2009), the MIT Museum (2009-2010), the Paris Le Cité des Sciences et Industrie 2010, and the American Museum of Natural History, New York (2011). She serves on the NASA Advisory Council’s Committee on Technology and Innovation and has served on numerous NRC Committees to review Human Spaceflight, Human-Robotic Interaction, Engineering Education and Innovation. She is the author of over 150 publications.

Dr. Newman received her B.S. degree from the University of Notre Dame and SM degrees from MIT’s Technology and Policy Program and department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and her PhD from MIT in Aerospace Biomedical Engineering.