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Willis Ware
Biography
Trained as an electrical engineer at University of Pennsylvania, MIT and Princeton (PhD in 1951).
1942-1946: Hazeltine Electronics Corporation., Little Neck, NY. Designed and developed classified radar beaconry and IFF equipment for the military forces.
1946-1951: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,
NJ. Member of John von Neumann's group that designed and developed his machine -- the IAS machine -- vacuum tube, parallel, asynchronous (unclocked), Williams tube memory, von Neumann architecture.
1951-1952: North American Aviation, Downey, CA. Development of military missiles.
1952-1992: The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. The Johnnaic project, various USAF analytic studies generally related to computer technology and its use by the Air Force, various staff and management positions. Various military and government study groups, advisory boards, committees.
1992 - : Resident consultant, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. Various client studies and government advisory boards.
Dr. Ware is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, a Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the ACM.
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