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150 YEARS OF LASALLIAN EDUCATION 110 YEARS OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION
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SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ACADEMIC CONVOCATION #1
November 14, 2002 Room 205, Leo Engineering Building 3825 Corlear Avenue, Bronx, NY 10463-2348 For information call: Dean's Office, 718-862-7281 |
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Academic in Washington: The Best of Both Worlds Establishing
Federal Priorities in Science and Technology
Duncan
T. Moore Rudolf
and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering University
of Rochester Rochester,
NY |
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Dr.
Duncan T. Moore has built a remarkably successful career by blending his
interests in research, teaching, business, and public service. In this
talk he will share a variety of personal experiences and anecdotes
gathered from activities ranging from his participation on the
Commission overseeing the initial repair of the Hubble Space Telescope
to his serving as Associate Director of the Office of Science and
Technology in the Clinton White House. Dr.
Moore will use his broad experience in correlating national public
policy with existing and projected levels of science and technology to
discuss how various priorities in the United States affect the budgeting
of science and technology projects and how this greatly impacts the
citizenry of the Country. By using such currently "hot topics"
as nanotechnology and information technology as examples, he will show
how these priorities can significantly affect innovation. Further he
will illustrate how various barriers to innovation, e.g. shortages in
the intellectual and technological workforce and government-imposed
regulations, can shape and too often impede the priority-setting and the
innovation processes. Dr.
Moore will conclude with a look into the future and describe the science
and technology policies being set into place for 2010 and beyond. |
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Biographical
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Dr.
Moore is currently the Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical
Engineering at the University of Rochester, and he has served as Dean of
Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University.
He has served as President of the Optical Society of America and
is currently a Senior Science Advisor at OSA.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Moore in the fall of 1997 for the
position of Associate Director for Technology in The White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
In this position, which ended in December 2000, he worked with
Dr. Neal Lane, President Clinton's Science Advisor, to advise the
President on U.S. technology policy, including the Next Generation
Internet, Clean Car Initiative, elder tech, crime tech, and NASA.
From January through May 2001, Dr. Moore served as Special
Advisor to the Acting Director of OSTP. Dr.
Moore has extensive experience in the academic, research, business, and
governmental arenas of science and technology. He is an expert in
gradient-index optics, computer-aided design, and the manufacture of
optical systems. He served a one-year appointment as Science Advisor to
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia in 1993. He chaired the
successful Hubble Independent Optical Review Panel organized in 1990 to
determine the correct prescription for the Hubble Space Telescope.
Dr. Moore is also the founder and former president of Gradient
Lens Corporation of Rochester, NY.
Dr.
Moore is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
He received the Science and Technology Award of the Greater
Rochester Metro Chamber of Commerce (1992), the Distinguished Inventor
of the Year Award of the Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association
(1993), the Gradient-Index Award of the Japanese Applied Physics Society
(1993), and an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of
Maine (1995). He also
received the 1999 National Engineering Award of the American Association
of Engineering Societies and the 2001 OSA Leadership Award. |
