"Inspiring young minds around the globe."  

Lately:

I'm enjoying life in the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at NIST, and working within the networking division and collaborating with members of other divisions (software, mathematics and statistics). At the lab, we have considerable freedom to formulate problems and investigate solutions that promise the highest public return on taxpayer investment. Most of my current research focuses on global behavior in large-scale information systems. At present, I am working on three things:

1. modeling and analyzing emergent behavior in computational economies,
2. assessing systems based on service-oriented architectures, and
3. investigating collective behavior and emergence in large-scale networks.

Recently, I proposed a research project ("Measurement Science for Complex Information Systems") approved as a NIST competence project starting in 2007. I also contributed to the formulation of an ITL program in Complex Systems. Starting in June 2007 I will be advising NRC post-doc Daniel Genin as he pursues research aimed to derive laws for spatiotemporal evolution of networks – in the context of the Internet. I continue to contribute to proposal reviews for other government agencies and  to paper reviews for journals and conferences. After ten years on the adjunct faculty at George Mason University, I have taken a break from teaching courses in networking and software engineering.

                "So it goes."