Background
Will, Peter Milne was born on November 2, 1935 in Peterhead, Scotland. Came to the United States, 1964. Son of James and Margaret (Milne) Will.
computer and robotics research executive
Will, Peter Milne was born on November 2, 1935 in Peterhead, Scotland. Came to the United States, 1964. Son of James and Margaret (Milne) Will.
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Aberdeen University, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Aberdeen University, 1960.
Teaching University Connecticut, Stanford, 1966—1971. Manager automation systems Yorktown Heights Research Center, International Business Machines Corporation Corporation, New York, 1965-1978. Industry technical advisor, Advanced Manufacturing Systems International Business Machines Corporation Corporation, Boca Raton, Florida, 1978-1980.
Director product. systems Schlumberger Well Services, Houston, 1980-1983. Director systems research Schlumberger-Doll Research Laboratory, Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1983-1986. Director, Very-large-scale integration Systems Research Fairchild Semiconductor, Palo Alto, California, 1986-1987.
Director, manufacturing research center, Hewlett-Packard Laboratory Hewlett-Packard Company, 1987—1988, director measurement & manufacturing center, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1988—1990, director design strategy product generation, 1990-1992. Director high performance computing and communication University Southern California/Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, 1992—1994, division director, 2000—2002, director, distributed scalable system division, 1994—2000, research professor, department industrial and system engineering, since 1997, research professor, department materials science, since 2000, research professor, astronautics and space technical division, since 2004. Fellow Information Sciences Institute, since 2002.
Director Enterprise Integration Systems Division, since 1994. Chief technical officer Akroria Networks, 2000—2001. Member computer science & technical board National Research Council, Washington, 1982-1985.
Member information science & technology advisory group Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Washington, 1988-1994. Advisory committee chairman microelectronics information processing committee, chairman, design, manufacturing and computer engineering committee, member optics, communications and systems committee, National Science Foundation, 1978-1986. Member selections committee Science Research Center Grants, Canadian Science Council, Ottawa, 1988-1989.
Founder, operator Microelectromechanical Systems Clearing House, 1994-2002. Chairman, National Research Council Study on Information Technology in Manufacturing, 1993-1994. Founder, Laboratory for Molecular Robots, University Southern California, 1995.
Chairman The National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Systems Integration Division Review Panel, 2001. Member scientific advisory board, Zyvex Corporation, since 2001. Member advisory board National Aeronautics and Space Administration MARS Technology, since 2002.
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association for Computing Machinery.
Married Angela Hay Giulianotti, March 21, 1959. Children: Christopher, Jonathan, Gabrielle.