Attendee: Stephen Kaisler

Dr. Stephen Kaisler (GWU - D.Sc. 1997) is a computer scientist who has served as a Program Manager in the Strategic Computing Program at DARPA; Chief Scientist for Analytics; Director of Systems Architecture and Technical Advisor to the U.S. Senate Sergeant At Arms; and Senior Scientist at several small companies. At DARPA he managed programs in High performance Computing and Fleet Command Center Battle Management and Geopolitical Simulation. At the U.S. Senate, he managed programs resulting in business systems modernization and the Legislative Branch Alternate Computing Facility. He is the author of four books on Computer Science and is currently working on a five volume work entitled Historical Computing Machines. He has taught as adjunct faculty at George Washington University's Dept of Computer Science for 34 years and also in the School of Businesses' Information Systems Technology Management department for 6 years. He has also taught in Stanford University's Western Institute of Computer Science (WICS) and George Mason University's Eastern Institute of Computer Science (EICS). He has been the Enterprise and Business Systems Architecture minitrack co-chair at the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science for 12 years; the Big Data minitrack co-chair for 2 years. He has given tutorials on Computational Social Science (w/ Claudio Cioffi-Revilla of GMU); Complex Adaptive Systems (w/ Greg Madey of Notre Dame); Large-Scale Computational Infrastructure (w/ Greg Madey of Notre Dame); IT Greening (w/ Frank Amour of American University); Big Data (w/ Frank Armour of AU) - all at HICSS.