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Steve Harris

Deputy Director, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory

Professional Preparation

  • Designated Aerospace Experimental Psychologist #58, US Navy, 1974.
  • University of West Florida, MA Psychology, 1974.
  • University of Oklahoma, BA Psychology, 1970.
  • Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Virginia Tech., 1982-84.
  • Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Penn. State Univ. Radnor Center, 1979-82.
  • Human Factors, University of Michigan, 1980.
  • Speech Understanding, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981.

Current Research

  • Geographically distributed high-performance computing (HPC) systems for research and applications in complex socio-technical systems:
    • Bioinformatics;
    • Policy informatics;
    • Strategy informatics;
    • Command-control applications of informatics;
    • Software requirements analysis and system architecture;
    • Intelligent guidance and control of computation;
    • Architecture for Comprehensive National Incident Management; System (CNIMS); and
    • User interfaces for advanced web-oriented services.
  • Human-system integration in policy-making applications.
  • Principles of hybrid intelligence in human-machine systems.
  • Systems for support of collaborative problem solving.
  • Complexity; analysis and synthesis of complex systems.

Previous Research

  • System requirements for simulation of advanced locomotive cab and distributed rail control systems.
  • Integration of airborne sensor systems and ground-based surveillance and command-control systems.
  • Intelligent radar/sensor integration and management systems for tactical aircraft.
  • Speech-understanding and interactive systems in tactical aircraft.
  • Digital wireless networks.
  • Space Shuttle crew information systems; enhanced caution and warning systems.
  • Advanced concepts for crewed orbital vehicles.
  • Applications of simulation in military mission rehearsal systems; distributed interactive simulations.
  • Crew resource management and team training.
  • Human performance in complex time-shared tasks.

Selected Publications

(Last updated: Thu Mar 13 09:46:46 EDT 2008)