December 2002
An
Inventive Idea
Moise Solomon
Moise Solomon, a MITRE senior principal integrated electronics engineer,
had the opportunity to apply for and receive a patent for his development
of a new type of Global Positioning System (GPS) antenna.
November 2002
Military
Robotics
Alan Christiansen
Alan Christiansen, principal engineer in the Cognitive Science and
Artificial Intelligence Department, leads a team that is exploring
approaches to the command and control of robot platoons that could
be used in the battlefield.
October 2002
Spreading
the Information Net
Theresa Dillon
Theresa Dillon has turned flextime into flexibility. Despite a part-time
schedule, she continues to expand her skills, using experience as
a corporate information sleuth to teach MITRE staff how to get the
most from internal resources and the Web.
October 2002
Making
Sense of Metadata: The Benefits of XML
Dock Allen
The Internet has a problem. And as MITRE's Dock Allen sees it, we
all have a problem because of it.
September 2002
Powerhouse
of Efficiency
Paulette Osterberg
Paulette Osterberg has managed the logistics of the MITRE Technology
Symposium since its beginning, nine years ago. The Symposium gives
MITRE an opportunity to showcase some of its most advanced and innovative
technology research and to share discoveries with MITRE staff and
various sponsors.
August 2002
Internship
Complements Academics
Julia Packer
Julia Packer, a junior at Smith College, is spending her second summer
as a technical intern for MITRE's Center for Air Force Command and
Control Federally Funded Research and Development Center in Bedford,
Massachusetts, and is a project team member for the Air Force weather
project.
April 2002
Dr.
Quantum
Gerry Gilbert
For Gerry Gilbert, a theoretical physicist with a penchant for quantum
mechanics, his first day of work at MITRE in the fall of 1996 was
both disconcerting and yet crammed with opportunity.
March 2002
MITRE
Assists Sponsor in Using XML in the Military Space Arena
Mary Pulvermacher
Mary Pulvermacher, a senior principal engineer with MITRE-Colorado
Springs for the past 16 years, shares her view of MITRE and the opportunities
available to research and explore new technologies for our sponsors.
February 2002
The
New CAASD Labs Unveiled
Urmila Hiremath
Urmila Hiremath, the associate department head of research computing
capability at MITRE-CAASD, discusses her work in developing and running
simulations in CAASD's new laboratories and how sponsors and customers
use the labs for aviation research and development.
January 2002
Augmenting
the GPS System: New Signals for Civilian and Military Users
Jose Torres
MITRE, in a cross-company effort, has been providing ongoing support
to our sponsors in developing, implementing and testing new signals
for civilian and military users in the next generation of GPS satellites.
