Education and Awards
Education
The Cooper Union:
B. E., Mechanical Engineering, 1977
Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society
Pi Tau Sigma, Mechanical Engineering Honor Society
Wilson G. Hunt Mechanical Engineering Prize
Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Stanford University:
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1978.
Carnegie Mellon University
M.S., Cognitive Psychology, 1984
R. K. Mellon Fellowship 1983-1984.
Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, May, 1988
Professional Honors
Thomas A. Wasow Visiting Scholar in Symbolic Systems, Stanford University, Jan 2007
ACM SIGCHI CHI Academy, 2005
NASA 2004 Turning Goals into Reality Administrator's Award
NASA 2004 Group Achievement Award for infusion of information technology into the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission
National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1994.
Professional Engineer's License in the State of New York, 1981.