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Committee on Materials and Processes Research and the InformationHighway
JERRY WOODALL (chair),
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
FRANK W. CROSSMAN,
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, Palo Alto, California
ALAN J. HURD,
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
LOUIS T. MANZIONE,
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey
CALTON PU,
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Portland, Oregon
LESLIE SCHNEIDER,
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
GIO WIEDERHOLD,
Stanford University, Stanford, California
National Materials Advisory Board Staff
ROBERT M. RUSNAK, Senior Staff Officer
CHARLES HACH, Research Assistant
AIDA C. NEEL, Senior Project Assistant
National Materials Advisory Board Liaison
MICHAEL I. BASKES,
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California
Liaison Representatives
ROBERT CROWE,
Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia
ANDREW CROWSON,
U.S. Department of the Army, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
DONALD U. GUBSER,
Naval Research Laboratories, Washington, D.C.
LAWRENCE KABACOFF,
Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia
STEVE LeCLAIR,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
RUTH PACHTER,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
RALPH WACHTER,
Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia
National Materials Advisory Board
ROBERT A. LAUDISE (chair),
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey
G.J. ABBASCHIAN,
University of Florida, Gainesville
JAN D. ACHENBACH,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
MICHAEL I. BASKES,
Sandia/Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, California
I. MELVIN BERNSTEIN,
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
JOHN V. BUSCH,
IBIS Associates, Inc., Wellesley, Massachusetts
HARRY E. COOK,
University of Illinois, Urbana
EDWARD C. DOWLING,
Cyprus Amax Minerals Company, Englewood, Colorado
ROBERT EAGAN,
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
ANTHONY G. EVANS,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
CAROLYN HANNSON,
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
MICHAEL JAFFE,
Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Summit, New Jersey
LIONEL C. KIMERLING,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
RICHARD S. MULLER,
University of California, Berkeley
ELSA REICHMANIS,
Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey
EDGAR A. STARKE,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
KATHLEEN C. TAYLOR,
General Motors Corporation, Warren, Michigan
JAMES WAGNER,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
JOSEPH WIRTH,
Raychem Corporation, Menlo Park, California