Date:
- December 5, 2017
- Time:
-
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
- Event Categories:
- Community, Professional, Technical,
- Undergraduate Student, Young Professional
- Website:
- https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/48586
This IEEE technical session will explore the social implications of technology and how the choices we make today influence the world we want to live in. It will explore how our world is increasingly managed by algorithms reflected in technologies such as artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, autonomous vehicles, renewable energy, and biomechanical innovations. Technology is complex. Technology requires applications of knowledge, exploits natural resources that exist in finite quantities, and must yield benefits to humans. A common belief is technology can solve any problem, but both the problems and the solutions are the result of human choices. The session will discuss why technical professionals must occupy a space within every field, making them multi-disciplinary. Their practices require ethical and societal scrutiny, wisely pursuing understanding of the societal impact of technology This session will leverage the presenter’s unique view into the world of technical professionals dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. The evening will provide opportunities for questions from the audience, dinner and networking. Join the conversation as we explore the social implications of technology, namely, engaging the future!
Organizer/Moderator
- Jacquelyn D. N. Cunningham jdnc@ieee.org
Speaker:
Dennis M. Moen, Ph.D., P.E. of NBM Technologies, Inc
Topic:
The Social Implications of Technology: Engaging the Future!
Biography:
Ph.D., Information Technology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
BS, General Engineering, US Military Academy, West Point, NY
Space Science Fellow, Office of Space Science, NASA, Washington, D.C.
Certificate, Executive Engineering Management Seminar, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Graduate, Defense System Management College, Fort Belvoir, VA
Research Interests
Network performance modeling and analysis, survivable network architectures, adaptive Internet protocols and healthcare IT infrastructure.
Accomplishments
- Principle Investigator on a number research projects including healthcare, interoperable communications systems, new adaptive Internet protocols, and wireless networking.
- More than 10 years of experience in DoD research and development activities supporting electronic warfare systems and advanced tactical and strategic communications systems.
- Authored and delivered the update to the enterprise goal architecture for the Command Control Survivability Program in support of the Pentagon Metro area common user (40,000 users) enterprise based on Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and Information Technology System Management (ITSM) standards concepts for operations management.
- Performed the optimization analysis of best network deployment strategy as a contribution to the modernization of the Federal Aviation Administration Flight Service Support Centers.
- Technical Director of software development organization leading development of the major healthcare applications used by the Department of Defense Healthcare Services globally today: Blood Management, Hospital Laboratory Management, and Pharmaceutical Logistics Management.
- Led the development and implementation of Program Management processes and software developer training certification program to meet CMM level 3 certification requirements in a 600 person health services application development organization.
- Developed new system engineering model and situational awareness concepts for real-time management of large healthcare facilities as part of research project with Sandia National Labs.
- Spearheaded strategy for implementation of broadband networking in the Department of Defense.
- Developed space shuttle science experiment program plan for evaluating technologies needed in support of building a gravity relativity experiment satellite (Gravity Probe-B).
- Conducted research and published numerous papers on adaptive Internet protocols for real time data distribution applications and autonomous network management systems.