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Appendix A Committee Membership
Pages 11-16

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... Alan Berman is an independent consultant whose current clients include the Applied Research Laboratory of Pennsylvania State University and the Center for Naval Analyses.
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... He has served on a number of national committees, including chairmanship of the NAS Physics Survey and the National Research Council Committee on Solid-State Sciences. He is past president of the American Physical Society and is currently chairman of the National Laboratories Operations Board of the Department of Energy.
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... He received his BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and his MS and PhD from Ohio State University. His research interests include statistical pattern recognition, computer vision, and biometric authentication.
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... He is a member of numerous professional societies, including the Marine Corps Association, the Marine Corps Aviation Association, the Expeditionary Warfare Division of the Naval Defense Industry Association, the Navy League, and the Adjutants General Association of the United States. Major General Jenkins is a member of the Naval Studies Board.
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... Andrew W Moore directs Google's Pittsburgh research facility and is a professor of robotics and computer science at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
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... Dr. Trogler's research group is exploring the use of photoluminescent and electroluminescent silole polymers as sensors for detecting electron-deficient organics and explosives, the design of sensors specific for the fluorophosphonate G nerve agents, micellar catalysts incorporated into a porous silicon sensor to detect Sarin, and chemoresponsive transistors as manufacturable chemical sensors.
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