ANTHONY G. OETTINGER
Anthony G. Oettinger is Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Information Resources Policy
at Harvard University. In Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences he chaired the multidisciplinary Committee on Special
Concentrations and he served on the Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction. In Washington, he chairs the U.S. Director of
National Intelligence's Intelligence Science Board and the Board of Visitors of the U.S. National Defense Intelligence College; he
also belongs to the Defense Science Board. He belongs to the Council on Foreign Relations and to the International Advisory
Council of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, and he is a Trustee of the Charles Babbage Foundation.
He founded the Program on Information Resources Policy at Harvard in 1972 to create useful knowledge, both competent
and impartial, on controversial information matters (http://www.pirp.harvard.edu). Toward this aim, the Program follows what still
seems to be a unique process, with many ingredients. Among the essential ingredients is research support that comes both in small
doses and from the widest variety of sources the Program can convince to contribute their money to its work; the idea is to be owned
by everybody so as to be owned by nobody.
From 1997 to 1998, he served on the Banking and Finance Sector Study Team that contributed to the report, Preliminary
Research and Development Roadmap for Protecting and Assuring Critical National Infrastructures, issued by the U.S. President's
Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection and the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office in July 1998. From 1996 to 1998
he was a member of the U.S. National Library of Medicine's Long Range Planning Panel on International Programs.
In the White House, Professor Oettinger was a consultant to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (198190), the National Security Council (1975-81) and the Office of Science and Technology (1961-73). He chaired the Massachusetts
Cable Television Commission (1975-79) under Democratic governor Michael Dukakis, having been named to it at its start in 1972
by Republican governor Francis Sargent. He founded the Computer Science and Engineering Board of the National Academy of
Sciences and chaired it from 1967 to 1973. He was also on the Research Advisory Board of The Committee for Economic
Development (1975-79) and a consultant to Arthur D. Little, Inc. (1956-80), as well as on the Scientific Advisory Group of the
Defense Communications Agency (1979-90; now DISA, the Defense Information Systems Agency), on the Command, Control,
Communications and Intelligence Panel of the Naval Research Advisory Committee (1978-82), and a member of the Information
Warfare panel of the Naval Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences (1993-1995). From 1963 to 1967 he was an adviser
to NASA's Apollo moon-landing program.
From 1966 to 1968 he was president of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing
Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the latter "for pioneering contributions to machine language
translation, to information retrieval, and to the use of computers in education", contributions detailed in Early Years in Machine
Translation: Memoirs and Biographies of Pioneers, edited by W. John Hutchins, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000
and in Makin' Numbers: Howard Aiken and the Computer, edited by I. Bernard Cohen and Gregory W. Welch, MIT Press, 1999.
Professor Oettinger wrote several chapters in The Information Resources Policy Handbook: Research for the Information
Age, edited by Benjamin M. Compaine and William H. Read. MIT Press, 1999. With Martin Ernst and others he co-authored
Mastering the Changing Information World. Ablex, 1993; with Carol Weinhaus, Behind the Telephone Debates, Ablex, 1988; and,
with Paul Berman and William Read, High and Low Politics: Information Resources for the `80s, Ballinger, 1977. He is also the
author of Run Computer Run: The Mythology of Educational Innovation, Harvard Press, 1969, of Automatic Language Translation:
Lexical and Technical Aspects, Harvard Press, 1960, and of numerous papers on information technologies and on their uses. He
contributed to computer programming technique by formalizing the use of the stack in his "Automatic Syntactic Analysis and the
Pushdown Store", in Structure of Language and Its Mathematical Aspects: Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, Vol.
XII, American Mathematical Society, 1961, pp. 104-129. His 1952 paper in Philosophical Magazine, “Programming a Digital
Computer to Learn”, Vol. 43(7), pp. 1243-1263, was one of the earliest in artificial intelligence. His former students follow not only
academic but also business, military, legal and other careers.
LINDSEY J. BORG
Lieutenant Colonel Lindsey J. Borg entered the Air Force in 1989, earning his commission through ROTC
at Iowa State University. Previously, he served as an intern in the White House Press Office under President
Reagan and in the CNN Washington Bureau. Since entering active duty, he has gained crisis and contingency
communication experience and served as a mission support squadron commander for the B-2 stealth bomber. He
deployed to direct public affairs operations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the effort to provide safety for Haitian
migrants, and to Italy as part of the combat information team supporting NATO’s campaign to end the siege on
Sarajevo. He supported media in Sarajevo during Bosnia-Herzegovina’s national elections in 1996 and helped lead
NATO’s communication operations in Pristina, Kosovo, in 1999. Additionally, he led Air Force Public Affairs’
initial response on September 11, 2001, establishing an alternate operating location near the Pentagon. He was a key
contributor to the DoD and Air Force communication plans for the Global War on Terrorism and Operation Iraqi
Freedom.
Colonel Borg holds a B.A. in journalism and mass communication from Iowa State University, an M.A. in
human relations from Oklahoma University and an M.S. in military science and operational art from the Air
Command and Staff College.