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Dr. Melvyn Ciment Joins the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies 20 February, 1999 The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a nonprofit foundation in Arlington, Va., announced the appointment today of Dr. Melvyn Ciment as its first Director for Information Technologies (IT). Founded in 1994, the Institute specializes in technology policy issues, including "dual use" policies for defense and commercial purposes, for government clients like the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). "Dr. Ciment will direct the Institute's work in tracking and assessing trends in information technologies," said Institute president Michael Swetnam. "He will also recommend strategies for improving cooperation between government, industry, and academia. Given the growing disparity between slowly growing federal R&D in IT and the far higher growth in industrially funded R&D, we see such cooperation becoming more important every day." Dr. Ciment joins the Potomac Institute after a distinguished career at NSF, where he served as Deputy Assistant Director for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering. While at NSF, he founded and co-chaired the Federal Information Services and Applications Council of the White House's National Science and Technology Committee. He was instrumental in the formation of the interagency Federal High Performance Computing and Communications (HCCP) program, the government's "flagship" IT research project, and in starting up NSF's Supercomputer Centers Program. He also served as NSF's Deputy Division Director for Advanced Scientific Computing and as program director for Applied Mathematics. He has also studied U.S. competitiveness in IT. During a 1996 [NSF] sabbatical as a visiting scientist with the University of Maryland's department of computer sciences, he surveyed the IT sector for the Washington-based Council on Competitiveness study, "Endless Frontier, Limited Resources: U.S. R&D Policy for Competitiveness." Before coming to NSF, Dr. Ciment served as a senior research scientist at the National Institutes for Standards and Technology (NIST) and at the Naval Surface Weapons Center. He served as a Commerce Science and Technology Fellow with the U.S. Senate Commerce Science and Technology Committee from 1980-81. Dr. Ciment received his doctoral degree in mathematics from New York University. He also holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Washington College of Law of American University and is a member of the bar in Maryland, DC and Florida. Dr. Ciment can be reached at the Institute by telephone (703-525-0770) or e-mail mciment@potomacinstitute.com. |
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