I was born in N.Y. N.Y. in 1958. I received my B.A from Cornell University in 1980. I began graduate school in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania and moved with my advisor, Alan Heeger, to Santa Barbara in 1982. After receiving my Ph.D. in Physics from U.C.S.B., I joined IBM Research in San Jose as a Post Doc. in 1984, and became a Research Staff Member in 1985.
I am now a Research Manager in the Department of Computer Science at the IBM Almaden Research Center where I lead an IBM Joint Program (with Haifa and Colleagues in Software Group) focused on creating technologies for an Interoperable Healthcare Information Infrastructure. I am a fellow of the American Physical Society. He received his B.A. in Physics from Cornell University and his PhD in Physics from U.C.S.B.
During my scientific career at IBM Research I was fortunate to work in several fields and made contributions in areas ranging from grid computing, distributed computing, simulation science, magnetic device technology, superconductivity, and experimental studies of the Moon Illusion. My current research interests include Interoperable Health Information Infrastructure, Electronic Health Records, and Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeling. We are currently working with the Eclipse Open Health Framework http://www.eclipse.org/ohf/ to make some of our technology for interoperability in healthcare available as open source.
My hobbies include martial arts (www.kokarate.com), water color painting, breeding tropical angelfish, and close-up photography. I enjoy playing with my kids, trying to understand nature, solving hard problems with computers, and building and repairing things.