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Stephen P. Smith is a Director of Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Enabling in Intel's Software & Solutions Group.
He has lead Intel's engagement with major enterprise ISVs, such as SAP and IBM/Lotus.
Previously he was Group Leader in the corporate Manufacturing Automation group at Intel,
where he was responsible for all the planning and scheduling systems in Intel's 300mm manufacturing Fab and Assembly/Test
factories.
Dr. Smith and colleagues are vigorously pursuing myriad research and development projects to apply
computers to the automation of Intel's factories. Of particular interest are his projects to investigate the
theoretical and practical aspects of Starbuck coffees. He continues to be fascinated by things that are hard for computers
to do, including how to schedule machines, people, facilities, tools,
sheep, bats, green ideas, ...
Dr. Smith received the B.S. degree in 1977, the M.S. degree in 1979, and the Ph.D. degree in 1982, all in
Computer Science and all from Michigan State University. He maintained his
extended stay at MSU because the school continued to pay him to do research in esoteric fields such as machine learning, clustering, and machine
vision! During this time, he was also a consultant with Babcock
& Wilcox (and he didn't have anything to do with Three Mile Island). In 1982 he was awarded "Most
Distinguished Graduate Student" by the Department.
From 1982-1991 he was a member of the research technical staff at a very remarkable
little place called the Northrop Research and Technology Center (NRTC) in Palos Verdes, Calif. At NRTC, he studied
a myriad research areas and quickly generated the highest scoring IR&D proposal for the Center.
He was able to interact with such luminaries§ as (in no particular order)
Steve
Lukasik, Bill
Athas, Einar
Stefferud, Marshall Rose, Robert
Hecht-Nielsen, Dwight Cass, George
Bekey, HR. Keshavan, Danny
Cohen, Pat Flynn,
Dave Farber, Doug
Lenat, Jeff Lankford, Rick
Hayes-Roth, Jeff
Barnett, and Rick Hoffman. It was here he met and fell in love with
Symbolics Lisp Machines and his wife.
Dr. Smith was once a the National Merit Semi-Finalist, giving him a partial
scholarship for college and he has been a National Semi-Finalist in the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes numerous times.
As a member of the National Volvo Owner's Club he has been the recipient of numerous citations from local law enforcement agencies
throughout the Southwestern United States. In 1992 he was awarded
Gold Card car rental privileges from Hertz Car Rental Company and in 1996 he was awarded
Premier Member status in United Airlines Frequent Flyer program.
His extracurricular activities include hiking, reading, and the casual pursuit of the senseless acts of random
kindness.
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