[From Rick Marken (01.03.20.1020)]
I suppose this is as good a time as any to announce that I
will be leaving The Aerospace Corporation at the end of
this month to take a position at RAND Corporation. This will
be the start of the third phase of my career: the first (which
lasted 12 years) was in academia (at Augsburg College), the
second (which lasted 15 years) was in systems engineering (at
Aerospace) and the third (which will hopefully last many more
years) will be in policy research (at RAND).
I mention this on CSGNet for a couple reasons. First, the
change to RAND will require a change in computers (unbelievably,
I'm going to stick with Mac) so it may be difficult for me
to update the CSG website (which I have been doing from work
because I have the right software and a high speed connection)
for a while. So if you have any announcements or news items that
you want me to post at the CSG site for April, let me know
before Friday (3/23), which is the last day I plan to be in my
office (actually, I'm retiring -- not resigning -- from
Aerospace so I will have easy access to the facilities in the
future; but I may be busy with transitional activities for
the next few weeks so I would like to finish the April post-
ing this week).
Second, I wanted to mention that I gave a talk on my PCT research
as part of my job interview at RAND. And they gave me the job
_anyway_! I do know someone at RAND who was a pretty strong
advocate for me; I'm sure that had more influence on my getting
the job offer than did my talk. But I thought the talk was pretty
well received. So I think there are people at RAND who might be
interested in learning about PCT.
Finally, although I am sad to be leaving Aerospace -- it's
a great place to work and I have many wonderful friends and
colleagues here -- I am really excited about going to RAND
because it will give me a chance to get involved in research
in a broad range of areas: health, education, population and
economics. My work at Aerospace has been rather narrowly focused
(on engineering support for space systems acquisition). RAND
should give me a chance to satisfy my rather eclectic tastes
and, perhaps, give me more of a chance to introduce control
system concepts into my research activities. And I will
once again be able to list my actual affiliation on the PCT
papers I publish.
So tell me about all the great PCT related things you all have
been doing recently so I can put them up on the net before I
bug outta here. And keep posting great stuff to CSGNet.
Best Regards
Rick
