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Dr. Bob Douglass co-founded SET Corporation, where he serves as Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Sensors and Signal Processing Division. Prior to joining SET, Bob co-founded and served as CEO and Chairman of ObjectVideo, Inc., a company dedicated to the commercialization of computer vision technology for video internet and security markets. Bob joined ObjectVideo from DARPA, where as an Assistant Office Director he managed $130M annually in information system programs. Bob joined DARPA from Sarcos Inc., where he played a key role in the 3-D simulation of the robotic dinosaurs for Universal Studio’s Jurassic Park theme ride. Previously at Lockheed-Martin’s Astronautics Division, Bob held P&L responsibility for a group developing intelligent robots and image exploitation applications using high-performance computers. Bob served as a professor of computer science at the University of Virginia, and held a postdoctoral appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London. He is the co-inventor of patents on radar, simulation, and video technology. He co-edited a book on parallel computation and has authored numerous technical reports and papers. He has served on panels for the National Academy of Sciences and the Defense Science Board, and chaired the oversight committee for surveillance research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Bob earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, magna cum laude from Princeton University. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin in computer sciences with a minor in neuro-science. | 