Lightfleet® Corporation, a technology company that uses advanced technologies for faster, smaller, and more energy-efficient computing solutions, has announced the members of the newly created Science and Technology Advisory Board (STAB). The Science and Technology Advisory Board includes recognized experts in several disciplines and will inform Lightfleet executives about developments that are relevant to the company. Selected members of the board are: Dr. Maarten Boasson, Dr. Joel R. Stiles, M.D. Ph.D, Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, and Dr. Marc L. Simpson.
“Lightfleet’s optical interconnect technology is so groundbreaking that it’s essential for us have advanced expertise in various areas,” says John Peers, Lightfleet Chairman and CEO. “The Science and Technology Advisory Board will complement our company’s personnel with experts working in various fields. These experts, along with our employees, will assist us in keeping abreast of worldwide developments for relevant new technologies, and to incorporate developments into future products.”
STAB members are selected by the CEO of Lightfleet and will serve two-year renewable terms. Members of the first Lightfleet Science and Technology Advisory Board include:
Dr. Maarten Boasson, chairman of the STAB, is a professor of computer science at the University of Amsterdam, where he holds a chair in industrial complex computer systems. He is also the founder and owner of Quaerendo Invenietis, a consulting company that provides advice on systems design and engineering. Dr. Boasson was involved in the creation of a novel architecture for distributed reactive systems that is, more than 15 years after its introduction, still unsurpassed in its support for integration, fault tolerance, and component reuse. He served on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals, played a major role in establishing Dutch national research programs, and is co-founder of the Para Limes Institute for interdisciplinary research.
Jeffrey M. Birnbaum is the Chief Architect at Merrill Lynch and is the founder of 60East Technologies where he developed “AMPS” (Advanced Message Processing System), which delivers high performance for real-time environments. Previously, Birnbaum was Managing Director and Chief Technical Architect for the Institutional Securities division at Morgan Stanley where he spearheaded the development of a cost-effective and competitive computing platform. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Birnbaum was a systems engineer in the Aerospace Industry and the CIA.
Dr. Marc L. Simpson is a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) where he has worked for 24 years in the advanced laser and optical technologies group. Dr. Simpson is also a Senior Member of the IEEE where he served as Co-Chair of the annual IEEE Workshop on Interconnections within High Speed Digital Systems. He holds 13 US patents, one of which won an R&D 100 Award, and has published more than 35 peer-reviewed articles. He recently authored a chapter in the Encyclopedia of Modern Optics.
Dr. Joel R. Stiles, M.D. Ph.D., is Director of the National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and holds adjunct Associate Professorships in the Biology Department at Carnegie Mellon University, and in the Neuroscience and Computational Biology Departments at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a principal co-author of MCell, a Monte Carlo simulator of cellular microphysiology, and is also the principal architect of DReAMM (Design, Render, and Animate MCell Models). His work has helped create and distribute research and teaching software for spatially realistic simulations of cellular function.
“Interesting developments in science and technology abound in universities and other non-profit research organizations worldwide, and in research laboratories of large corporations,” explained Dr. Boasson. “It is next to impossible for Lightfleet to stay in touch with all of the new ideas. Science and Technology Advisory Board members will have the ability to entertain radically new ideas that do not necessarily fit in the traditional disciplines.”