Biography for Doug Dyer Name: Doug Dyer Organization: DARPA E-mail: ddyer@darpa.mil Go to the abstract

Major Doug Dyer (USAF) is a program manager in the Information Sciences Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA/ISO). He received undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and Louisiana Tech, an MS in Computer Science from the State University of New York, Utica, and a PhD in computer engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) for work in automated planning and explanation-based learning. At the USAF Rome Laboratory, he helped Steve Cross and Nort Fowler start a large research program in automated planning and scheduling. While at AFIT, he led a research team which developed a variety of intelligent agents for simulated air combat running in a distributed, interactive war game. Later, at the USAF Phillips Laboratory, he developed intelligent ground control systems for satellites. Now at DARPA, he is pursuing a program on agent-based systems. He can be reached at DARPA/ISO, 3701 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington VA 22203; ddyer@darpa.mil