On Monday evening, October 7, 2002, Dr. James Gantt will be on campus as
part of the "Current Concepts in Telecommunications" lecture series.
His topic for the evening will be 1. Communications Research --
Wireless Research -- Military challenges using current
telecommunications in a military context -- Afghanistan and if time
permits 2. Free Space Laser Communications. Please alert your students
to this opportunity to hear a world recognized authority. The lecture
will be at 7:00 p.m. in the Curd Auditorium.
There is also an open forum for TSM faculty scheduled earlier in the
afternoon. This opportunity to visit with Dr. Gantt will be from 3:30
to 4:30 p.m. in room 253R of the I & T Building.
DR. JAMES GANTT
DEPUTY DIRECTOR
COMPUTATIONAL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES DIRECTORATE
Dr. Gantt was born in Murray, Kentucky. After graduation from high school, he attended Murray State University and received a Bachelor of Science with honors (Cum Laude) in 1971. In 1972, he received a Master of Science degree in Computer Science majoring in Operations Research from the University of Missouri at Rolla. After graduation, he entered the United States Army and served as an instructor at the Army Computer Science School at Fort Harrison, Indiana.
In 1978, he received an Education Specialist degree in Management from Ball State University. He moved to Atlanta, Georgia and was employed as an Operations Research Analyst with the Army Institute for Research in Management Information, Communications, and Computer Sciences (AIRMICS), which is now part of the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). He was selected to spend the 1981-1982 school year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Fellow in the Center for Advanced Engineering Studies.
From 1983 to 1992, he served as the Chief of the Management Information Systems Division at AIRMICS. He completed his Ph.D in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989.
When the ARL was formed in 1992, he became the Chief of the Software Technology Branch and then served as the Chief of the Software and Intelligent Systems Division.
In September of 1996, he became the acting Director of the Information Science and Technology (IS&T) Directorate. He was selected to become a member of the Senior Executive Service and appointed as Director of IS&T in June of 1998. In May of 2000,
Dr. Gantt became the Deputy Director of ARL's new Computational and Information Sciences Directorate, which was formed by merging the Computational Sciences with the Tactical Information Processing and Communications Research programs.
The Computational and Information Sciences Directorate of ARL is responsible for conducting research for the Army in Computer Science, Communications, and Weather. The current budget for the Directorate is approximately $175M. About 350 government employees and another 350 on-site contractors execute this budget.
Dr. Gantt is married to the former Kay Thompson of Paducah, Kentucky. Kay received BS and MS degrees from Murray State University. James and Kay have two daughters, Heather and Jenny.
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