The Data Center

David L. Brock

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02139

Professional Preparation:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering B.S.M.E., June 1984

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mathematics, Theoretical Mathematics   B.S.Math., September 1989

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering M.S.M.E., June 1987

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., January 1993

Appointments:

2004                           Founder and Director

                                    Data Center

                                    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

1999 – Present            Founder and Director

                                    Auto-ID Center

                                    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

1999 – Present            Principal Research Scientist

                                    Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity

                                    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

2000 – Present            Associate Research Professor of Surgery

                                    Tufts University, School of Medicine, Boston, MA

1998 - 2001               Founder and Chief Technical Officer

                                    endoVia Medical, Inc.

1998                           Instructor of Mechanical Engineering

                                    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

1994 – 1998              Research Scientist

                                    Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

                                    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

1993 – 1994              Postdoctoral Associate

                                    Research Laboratory for Electronics

                                    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

1990 – 1994              Software Engineer

                        Lockheed-Martin Advanced Distributed Simulation

                        Loral Advanced Distributed Simulation

                        BBN Systems and Technologies

Awards:

World Technology Award nominee 2003 and 2004, Computerworld Honors Program 2003, Wunsch Foundation Award 1984, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma

Consulting:

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Tufts University Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Lockheed-Martin Corporation, Loral, Bolt, Beranek and Newman (now BBN Technologies), Draper Laboratories, RFSaw, Inc., Axiomatic Design Solutions, Brock Research, Inc.

Selected Publications:

Brock, D., “Beyond the EPC – Engineering the Next Generation Intelligent Data Network,” Auto-ID Publication, MIT-AUTOID-WH-025, 2003.

Brock, D., The Electronic Product Code (EPC) – A Naming Scheme for Physical Objects, Auto-ID Publication, MIT-AUTOID-WH-002, 2001

Brock, D., The Physical Markup Language (PML) – A Universal Language for Physical Objects, Auto-ID Publication, MIT-AUTOID-WH-003, 2001

Sarma, S., Brock, D. and Ashton, K., The Networked Physical World – Proposal for Engineering The Next Generation of Computing, Commerce & Automatic Identification, Auto-ID Publication, MIT-AUTOID-WH-001, 2000.

Michel, D. and Brock, D., A Multiresolution Synthetic Environment Based on Observer Viewpoint, DIS Workshop, 1996.

Collaborators and Other Affiliations:

Prof. Sanjay Sarma, Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Prof. Duncan McFarlane, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Prof. Peter Cole, University of Adelaide, Australia

Prof. Elgar Fleisch, University of St. Gallen and ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Prof. Jun Murai, Keio University, Japan

Thesis Advisees Supervised:

Kevin Emery – present

Chaitra Chandrasekhar – present

Timothy Milne – June 2003

Brendon Lewis – June 2002

Nedzad Lomigora – January 1999

Ozgu Tokgoz – May 1998

Harry Tsai – May 1997

Kevin O’Brien – May 1996

Woojin Lee – May 1996

Ona Wu – May 1997

Hiroshi Kawai – May 1995

David Cho – May 1995

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