This is an alphabetical listing of all presenters / speakers who participated
in STC 2001. Brief biographical information is provided for each.
Andrew, Emily
Emily is a Major in the U.S. Air Force serving as the Program Manager
for the National Air and Space Model (NASM), and the Joint Synthetic Battlespace
(JSB) initiative for the Electronic Systems Center (ESC) Modeling and Simulation
and Interoperability Test Division (CXC). Additionally, she provides oversight
for the Air Warfare Simulation (AWSIM) capability that is currently the
operational air component simulation that will eventually be replaced by
NASM. Emily has held many positions commensurate with her rank and occupational
specialty. Among many other assignments, she served as a software evaluator
at the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center on the Follow-on
Test and Evaluation Team for the B-1 B Bomber, she served as Chief of Software
Engineering and as the Executive Officer at the Joint National Test Facility
(JNTF), and she served at the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO)
where she was responsible for a number of information technology areas
to include managing BMDO's entire Year 2000 program, providing technical
leadership and direction for the BMDO Wargame 2000 simulation, and managing
BMDO's wide area networks. Currently at the Electronic Systems Center,
Emily provides technical and program leadership to a number of critical
USAF simulation capabilities. She currently is the Branch Chief for Synthetic
Environments. Emily holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of Connecticut,
a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado, and a
M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado Technical University.
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Baxter, Dave
Dave is currently working in the Joint Precision Strike Demonstration
(JPSD) Program Office on the Rapid Terrain Visualization (RTV) Advanced
Concepts Technology Demonstration (ACTD) project. He is actively engaged
in LIDAR sensor development, operation, and data processing support activities
for the project. His former duties included being the Project Manager for
the LIDAR Toolkit and the Feature Attribution Module of the RTV Data Generation
Software Suite. Dave has formally been employed by the National Imagery
and Mapping Agency (NIMA), the U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center,
and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).
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Berner, Paul
Paul is a SEDRIS Core Team member with over twenty-three years of experience
in systems analysis, operations research, modeling and simulation ranging
from mass action kinetics to undersea warfare. He has worked in naval acoustic
combat system tactics development, test and evaluation, training systems
R&D, and acquisition IV&V, and has developed technology for acoustic
signal synthesis and underwater acoustic combat system trainers.
Birkel, Paul
Paul is a Senior Principal Scientist for The MITRE Corporation.
He currently provides technical support and guidance to the DARPA Synthetic
Theater of War (STOW) program in the area of environmental modeling, the
DMSO Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification
(SEDRIS) project, and the Joint Simulation System (JSIMS) SNE Working Integrated
Product Team (WIPT). In addition, he provides guidance and support
as needed to other DoD M&S and C4ISR programs via the US Army Topographic
Engineering Center (USATEC). In support of SEDRIS, Paul provides
leadership in the areas of the Environmental Data Coding Specification
and the Spatial Reference Model.
Brutzman, Don
Don is an Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, and
chair of the X3D task group for the Web3D Consortium. He also leads development
of the virtual reality transfer protocol (vrtp). Don is a retired submarine
officer whose research interests include interactive 3D graphics, underwater
robotics, artificial intelligence and high-performance networking.
Campos, Jesse
Jesse is a Software Engineer with Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC) in Orlando, FL. He has been working on SEDRIS for the
past four years, concentrating on the SEDRIS Transmittal Format (STF).
Jesse holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central
Florida.
Carson, Steve
Steve is President of GSC Associates in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He
specializes in the development of real-time signal and information processing
systems. Steve holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California
at Riverside.
Carswell, John
John is a Simulation Engineer with Reality by Design (RBD), an Advanced
Interactive Systems (AIS), Inc. company. Since 1988, he has been actively
engaged in the design, implementation and use of systems that import, generate,
transform, and export environment databases. John has held positions in
software engineering, systems engineering and research with General Electric,
Lockheed Martin, and SAIC, and joined RBD in January of 2000. As a member
of the SEDRIS core team since 1996, he has lead the design and development
of the SEDRIS Transmittal Format (STF), the Write API, and the new Reference
API Implementation Framework (RAIF). He has also contributed to the general
development of the SEDRIS DRM and API. John holds a B.A. in Computer Science
from Stetson University.
Clover, Bob
Bob is a retired U.S. Army Officer who has been working with virtual
reality modeling and simulation since October 1985. He was responsible
for the fielding and initial operation of the SIMNET sites. Bob is currently
the Technical Director of the Simulation Center at the Institute for Defense
Analyses in Alexandria, Virginia. Bob holds a B.S. in Engineering from
the United States Military Academy and a M.S. in Industrial Management
from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Colleen, David
David Colleen, founder and President of Planet 9 Studios, has become
known in the industry as a "Cyber Architect". His interest in
computers began in the computer graphics labs at Cornell University. Graduating
as an Architect in 1981, he realized how valuable the computer was as a
tool to design structures quickly and with great accuracy. In San Francisco,
David began his career designing and building high rise office buildings.
He began his own architecture firm in 1991, Colleen Architects, which was
the first all digital architectural firm on the West Coast. In 1992, Colleen
Architects started supplying 3D city simulations for other architectural
and engineering firms. When VRML became the new standard for 3D on the
Internet in March 1995, David's new company, Planet 9 Studios began creating
real-time 3D virtual cities. Today, Planet 9 Studios is the largest supplier
of 3D for the Internet with clients in real estate, the military and in
entertainment. Their roster of 45 virtual cities includes San Francisco,
New York and Tokyo.
Crain, Wm. Forrest
Forrest is a Colonel in the U.S. Army currently serving as the Director
of the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO), Alexandria, Va. He
assumed his present position on March 1, 2000. Colonel Crain served as
the Deputy Director of DMSO from May 24, 1999 until assuming the directorship.
Colonel Crain has held many positions commensurate with his rank and occupational
specialty. Among many other assignments, he served as a Mechanized Infantry
Battalion Task Force Operations Officer during the Gulf War. Before joining
DMSO, Colonel Crain deployed with the 1st Cavalry Division as Chief of
Strategic Plans for the Multi National Division (North) in Tuzla, Bosnia.
Colonel Crain holds a B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy,
an M.S. from the University of Southern California, and is currently pursuing
a Ph.D. in Information Technology at George Mason University.
Foley, Paul
Paul is an Information Systems Engineer with Quantum Research International,
and is currently the DMSO Environmental Representation Lead. A retired
Corps of Engineers Officer, he has over 30 years experience in Army topographic
and digital geospatial system operations. Paul holds advanced degrees
in Photogrammetry from Purdue University, and R&D Systems Management
from the the University of Southern California. Paul is also a graduate
of the Army War College.
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Gardner, Jim
Jim is a Research Geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Menlo Park, California. He joined the USGS Western Region Coastal &
Marine Geology in 1975, and currently serves as Project Chief for Pacific
Seafloor Mapping. His technical specialities include paleoceanography,
marine sedimentology, sidescan sonar processing and interpretation, continental
margin sedimentology and geostatistics. Jim holds a B.S. from San Diego
State University, and a M.S. and a Ph.D. from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University.
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Gravitz, Peggy
Peggy is a Simulation Engineer with AEgis Technologies Group, Inc.
She has specialized in DoD Modeling and Simulation standards with a focus
in the areas of data and software quality. Peggy has over 18 years of IT
experience in systems analysis, systems/database design and implementation,
data/process/enterprise modeling, software development, software quality
assurance, configuration management, systems administration and project
management. She currently serves as an EDCS Instructor as well as the Steering
Group Coordinator for the Navy Modeling and Simulation Standards Project.
Peggy holds a B.A. in Foreign Language, a Secondary Education Certification,
the DoD Programmer Analyst Internship, a M.B.A., and a M.S. in Systems
Management.
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Hembree, Louis
Louis is a Meteorologist in the Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology
Division. He supports the Air and Space Executive Agent for M&S as
a subject matter expert in the development of SEDRIS. Louis is also a task
leader for the Master Environmental Library (MEL) project and is involved
with making SEDRIS data sets available via MEL. He has been participating
in the DIS and SISO workshops, and served as Chair of the Atmospheric Working
Group and the Sensor Modeling Forum. Louis has also been involved with
several M&S projects.
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Hull, Greg
Greg is a Software Engineer with Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC) in Orlando, FL. He has been working on SEDRIS for the
past eighteen months, concentrating on modification of the SEDRIS Transmittal
Format (STF) for Release 3.0. Greg holds a B.S. in Computer Science and
a B.S. in Math from the University of Central Florida.
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Kaul, Dean
Dean is with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
and serves a the Principle Investigator for the Consequences Assessment
Tool Set (CATS) with the Joint Assessment of Catastrophic Events (JACE)
project, sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). He has
worked in the areas of nuclear weapons radiation, shielding, nuclear weapons
effects, their supporting software development and its verification and
validation for 35 years; first for the predecessors of DTRA and for SAIC.
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Liu, Jesse
Jesse is the President of AcuSoft, Inc. AcuSoft is a simulation software
company; specializing in DIS, HLA, real-time visual software, and synthetic
environment database development. AcuSoft is a SEDRIS associate member
specializing in database conversion, visualization, and validation tools.
Jesse holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida.
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Louie, Gilman
Gilman has nearly twenty years of experience in product design and
development, and strategic business development within the interactive
entertainment industry. Prior to his current position, he was Hasbro Interactive's
Chief Creative Officer and General Manager of the Games.com group, responsible
for creating and implementing the business plan for Hasbro's Internet games
site. Prior to joining Hasbro, Gilman held a number of chief executive
positions with Nexa Corporation, Sphere, Inc., Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.,
and MicroProse, Inc., which was sold to Hasbro in 1998. During this period,
he managed a number of mergers and acquisitions, developed a host of financing
arrangements with venture capital and public markets, and negotiated major
licensing deals while remaining actively engaged in the design and development
of award winning interactive entertainment products. As a member of several
corporate Boards of Directors within the interactive entertainment industry
including Wizards of the Coast, Total Entertainment Network and FASA Interactive,
Gilman has contributed his expertise to start-up enterprises. He has also
served on the boards of companies outside his industry, focusing on educational
software, and translation and media services for traditional media and
web based publishing.
Lukes, George
George is a Research Staff Member in the Simulation Center, Institute
for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, Virginia. From 1994 to 2000, he served
as a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency where
he was responsible for the Synthetic Environments Program, and subsequently
the Image Understanding Program. His research interests include computer
vision, terrain analysis, digital mapping and autonomous navigation as
well as synthetic environments for simulation and modeling. George holds
a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. from the
American University, Washington, D.C.
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Lyon, John
John is Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA)
Office of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory
Environmental Sciences Division, and a member of the Senior Executive Service.
The Division conducts research on remote sensing and GIS technologies as
applied to environmental issues including landscape characterization and
ecology, and hazardous wastes. Other research activities include development
of geophysical characterization and monitoring methods, and advanced analytical
chemistry methods, as applied to multiple media and chemicals and waste
products. The Division has Branches in Las Vegas, NV, Research Triangle
Park, NC and Reston, VA. John's own research involves advanced remote sensing
and GIS applications to water and wetland resources, agriculture, natural
resources and engineering. He is an expert on these technologies as well
as photogrammetry and surveying, and is the author of best selling books
on wetlands and environmental applications of remote sensing and GIS. He
has previously served as a Professor of Civil Engineering and Natural Resources
at Ohio State University, was a Civil Engineer on an IPA with the Detroit
District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and was a Visiting Scientist
with the USEPA in Las Vegas, NV. John attended Reed College in Portland,
Oregon and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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Macchi, Warren
Warren is a Software Engineer with Arteon Corporation and AcuSoft,
Inc. He has been working on computer graphics and simulation research for
over 7 years. His experience includes computer vision, 3D rendering, real-time
simulation systems, database modeling, networking, and synthetic environment
manipulation and analysis tools. Warren has been a member of the SEDRIS
team since 1997. He was the lead developer of the Side-By-Side Viewer,
the Java Browser, and the lead conversion expert for CCTT databases. Warren
has also worked with the SEDRIS core team in the design and development
of the Reference API Implementation Framework (RAIF), Level 1 API, EDCS
tools, and currently the SEDRIS Inter-Application Interface API. Warren
holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida.
Mamaghani, Farid
Farid has worked in the field of interactive networked simulation since
1984. He is one of the original designers of the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) Simulation Networking (SIMNET) computer image generation
system, and has worked as systems engineer and project manager on a variety
of networked simulation projects. Farid is one of the people primarily
responsible for the establishment of the SEDRIS project. He is currently
an independent consultant (with clients in both the DoD and commercial
sectors), serving as the SEDRIS Technical Director and managing the day-to-day
activites of the project.
Moore, Ronald
Ronald is currently Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Infogrames,
Inc (formerly GT Interactive Software Corp.), the worlds second largest
entertainment software publishing company. Ronald has served as CTO within
Infogrames and GTIS for three years. As CTO, he provides overall technology
direction for Infogrames North American operations, and leads research
and development activities of new entertainment technologies. Prior to
joining the entertainment industry, Ronald worked for nine years as the
Manager of Ground and Helicopter Systems Applications Engineering at Evans
& Sutherland (E&S) Computer Corporation. For seven years, he was
also the E&S principal visual engineer on the U.S. Army Close Combat
Tactical Trainer (CCTT) system. Ronald was a core member of the Synthetic
Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification (SEDRIS)
standards development activity. He has been a member of the Simulation
Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) and served as Chairman of
the Environment Working Group for two years. He served as a member of the
Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) Standards Steering Committee and
Chair of the Simulated Environment Working Group for four years. Prior
to joining E&S, Ronald worked for The Boeing Company's Visual Flight
Simulation Laboratory for eight years where, as engineer and manger, he
contributed to research in cockpit automation technology and air combat
team training using distributed network technology. He has been involved
in 3D computer graphics, image generation, display, and database development
for over 18 years. Ronald holds a BSE from Brigham Young University.
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Pace, John
John is a meteorologist working at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
(DTRA), on assignment at DTRA from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(LLNL). He joined LLNL in 1992 and came to DTRA in April 2001. At DTRA,
John is the program manager for the DTRA Urban Dispersion Modeling Program,
actively involved in reviewing progress on model development and in planning
future modeling work. He is seeking to develop a method to acquire, process,
save, and share building height data for use in urban dispersion models.
At LLNL, John worked as an operational dispersion meteorologist in the
Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability program. Prior to 1992, he was
on active duty in the U.S. Air Force, and he is currently in the Air Force
Reserve. Through his career, John has held positions in terrestrial weather
forecasting, space weather forecasting, software engineering, weather model
development, dispersion meteorology, and program management. John holds
a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the State University of New York at
Albany, and a M.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Wyoming.
Perez, Juan
Juan is currently Program Manager for the Integrated Natural Environment
(INE) Program at the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO). His
primary responsibilities include overall lead for the development, integration
and demonstration of technologies for environmental representation including
interoperability standards - SEDRIS. On previous assignments at the U.S.
Army Engineering Research and Development Center -Topographic Engineering
Center, Juan served as Chief, Force Projection Branch and Chief, Synthetic
Environments Program Office where he led the TEC team participation in
the execution of Advanced Concepts Technology Demonstrations (Counter Multiple
Rocket Launcher, Rapid Terrain Visualization, Synthetic Theater Of War
and Theater Precision Strike Operations). Juan holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering
from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez and a M.S. in Remote Sensing
and Photogrammetry from Ohio State University.
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Polis, Michael
Michael is a co-founder and the Head of Visual Simulation at TerraSim,
Inc. He is the software architect for TerraTools®,
TerraSim's flagship simulation database generation product, which is used
on a variety of DoD programs (WARSIM, TSGA, FBE, VERTS) for the production
of synthetic natural environments in SEDRIS. Michael is also leading efforts
at TerraSim to link TerraTools with SEDRIS diagnostic programs and viewers.
Prior to founding TerraSim in 1996, he developed ITIN (Integrated Triangulated
Irregular Network) generation algorithms as a Research Programmer at Carnegie
Mellon University's Digital Mapping Laboratory. Michael holds a B.S. in
Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
Puk, Richard
Richard has been participating in the development of computer graphics
standards since the initial founding meeting for the ACM SIGGRAPH Graphics
Standards Planning Committee. He is a founding member of Accredited Standards
Committee H3. Richard is also a member of the U.S. delegation to international
computer graphics standards meetings. He has worked in education, government,
and industrial positions in the United States and is presently President
of Intelligraphics Incorporated, an independent consulting firm specializing
in the design of computer graphics systems architectures. Richard holds
a B.S. from the University of Arizona and both a M.S. and a Ph.D. from
Purdue University.
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Rees, Terry
Terry is the District Chief of the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS)
Nevada District based in Carson City, Nevada. He joined the USGS in 1978,
and has lead a variety of research projects studying the geochemical behavior
of radioactive waste, the geochemistry of ultra-fine particulars called
"colloids", the biochemical and geochemical changes to water
quality in the soil column above the water table, and the fate of nitrate,
organic materials, bacteria and viruses present in reclaimed water that
is used for irrigation or artificial recharge. Terry holds a B.S. from
Metropolitan State College in Denver, and a M.S. and a Ph.D. from the Colorado
School of Mines.
Richbourg, Bob
Bob is a member of the Research Staff, Simulation Center, Institute
for Defense Analyses. He is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who's last
assignment was an Academy Professor of Computer Science, and Director of
the Artificial Intelligence Center, USMA, West Point, NY. Bob holds a B.S.
in Mathematics, a M.S. in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence.
Shen, David
David is a Software Engineer with Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC). He is currently a member of the SEDRIS core team working
on the maintenance of the core software and tools development. Among previous
assignments, David was actively involved with the standardization of the
Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS), which led to the publication
of IEEE-1278. He performed research in the areas of High Level Architecture
(HLA) and simulation re-configurability. David worked under the U.S. Army
Close Combat Tactical Trainer (CCTT) program as the technical lead for
the design and implementation of the distributed command and control database
for the Semi-Automated Forces (SAF). He also directed the design and implementation
of the CCTT-SAF system migration from DIS to HLA. David holds a B.S. in
Statistics from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and a M.S. in Software
Engineering from the University of Central Florida.
Stone, Tim
Tim is a Research Programmer/Analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses
(IDA). He is a co-developer of the Synthetic Environment Evaluation - Inspection
Tool (SEE-IT) Application, and has been working in the Simulation Center
at IDA for the past four years dealing with a wide variety of topics relating
to simulation. Tim's interests include computational geometry, triangulated
irregular networks (TINs), simulation, algorithm design, and line of sight
(LOS). Tim holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Lewis
& Clark College, and a M.S. in Computer Science from New Mexico State
University.
Toms, Ralph
Ralph has more than thirty years of experience with real-time embedded
systems and high performance simulation development. He is a Senior Technical
Advisor at SRI International. His formal training is in applied mathematics
and numerical analysis. He has leveraged this experience and training to
develop new efficient procedures for SEDRIS coordinate transformation that
retain high accuracy.
Tosh, Andrew
Andrew Tosh is the lead engineer for AcuSoft's SEDRIS tool, the Side-by-Side
Terrain Viewer. After graduating from the University of Central Florida
with a degree in Computer Science, Andrew has developed real-time visual
systems and validation tools for AcuSoft.
Trott, Kevin
Kevin is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff of Logicon Sterling
Federal in Rome, NY. His areas of expertise include digital topographic
data, modeling and simulation, and object-oriented software engineering.
He has led successful software engineering and technology development projects
for the U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center, U.S. Army STRICOM, NIMA,
and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Kevin was responsible for
developing the mapping from NIMA's Vector Product Format (VPF) to the SEDRIS
data representation model, and for the software that implements that mapping.
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Wertman, Kevin
Kevin is a Software Engineer with Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC) in Orlando, FL. Since August of 2000, he has been a
member of the SEDRIS Core Team, involved with testing and general development
of the Application Programmer's Interface (API). In March 2001, Kevin became
the maintainer and developer of the SEDRIS to Compact Terrain Data Base
(CTDB) converter. Kevin holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University
of Central Florida.
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Wiggins, Eddie
Eddie is a Civil Engineer in the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical
Center Expertise (JALBTCX), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District,
Mobile, Alabama. He has worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile
District since 1992 in various positions related to hydrographic surveying
and navigation channel operations and maintenance. He currently serves
as Operations Manager for the state-of-the-art Scanning Hydrographic Operational
Airborne LIDAR Survey (SHOALS) System. Eddie holds a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering
from Mississippi State University.
Woodhouse, Charles
Charles is the Manager of the Simulation and Training Systems Department
of ITT Advanced Engineering & Sciences Division. For the last 8 years
he has been working to develop representations of the passive defense battlefield
for real time distributed simulation applications. Charles has lead and
been a member of teams developing tools for Simulation Based Acquisition
and training systems for Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the U.S. Army
Chemical School, the Program Manager for NBC Defense, and the Program Director
for Biological Defense. The tools have included Nuclear Chemical Biological
(NBC) and Radiological Environment Simulation, CB Dial-A-Sensor, and NBC
information digitization systems and information flow representations.
Charles holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the George Washington
University.
Worley, Michele
Michele is a Software Engineer at Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC), Orlando. She focuses on maintenance of the SEDRIS Data
Representation Model, the Read Application Programmer's Interface, and
other SEDRIS core applications. Michele has been supporting the SEDRIS
project since early 1997.