Dubois, Lawrence

David R. Rea of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company prepared the presentation summaries of Richard M. Gross, Allen Clamen, Elsa Reichmanis, and Lawrence H. Dubois. The summaries for the presentation of Mary L. Good, James R. Heath, Francis A. Via, and Kenneth A. Pickar were prepared by Ned D. Heindel. Andrew Kaldor wrote the summaries of the presentations by Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Michael Schrage, and Richard K. Koehn. 

Lawrence H. Dubois, SRI International As an alumni of Bell Labs and a current resident of Silicon Valley, I can tell you that the SIA Roadmap is an incredibly powerful tool. It drives a number of different industries to focus on where they want to go and a number of different disciplines to develop new kinds of resists, etching tools, lasers, deposition chemistries, and the like. Having said that, the SIA Roadmap also stifles creativity. If you come up with an idea or a concept 5 years too early, nobody cares. It will sit on the shelf until it s time for it to be on the road map. There are clearly pluses and minuses to road maps. 

Lawrence Dubois joined SRI International as vice president and head of the Physical Sciences Division in March 2000. Prior to that, he spent 7 years at DARPA, finishing his tenure there as director of the Defense Sciences Office, which is responsible for an annual investment of approximately 300 million toward the development of technologies for biological warfare defense, biology, defense applications of advanced mathematics, and materials and devices for new military capabilities. 

Lawrence H. Dubois Using DARPA as an example, what are some of the critical issues facing the safety of the nation today I think a lot of people would say biological warfare defense is an issue we may have to deal with. You will get some consensus with that issue. 

Lawrence H. Dubois I think that is a very good question, and it certainly is open to a wider debate. Putting all your eggs in one basket is probably the wrong thing to do, however. You can look at the possibilities of success in different areas to determine where to put your money or effort, but because the probability and timing of an attack are uncertain, it is necessary to act in the shorter term. 

Lawrence H. Dubois In part, the issue depends on whether you are working in a mission-oriented agency that has a responsibility to accomplish something. Then you have got to decide what it is you want to accomplish. 

Lawrence H. Dubois Clearly, you have to tailor what it is you are trying to do technically with the ultimate goals of the organization. This takes somebody who is a proactive decision maker, not a passive bureaucrat. 

David L. Cocke, Lamar University Richard J. Colton, Naval Research Laboratory Walter G. Copan, The Lubrizol Corporation Lawrence H. Dubois, SRI International Joseph S. Francisco, Purdue University Brian G. Frederick, University of Maine... 

Lawrence H. Dubois received his B.S. degree in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976 and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980. Dubois then joined AT T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, to pursue studies of the chemistry and physics of metal, semiconductor, and insulator surfaces chemisorption and catalysis by materials formed at the metal-semiconductor interface and novel methods of materials growth and preparation. 

Ralph G. Nuzzo and Lawrence H. Dubois AT T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974... 

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