Walter S. Baer
Chair, external advisory board, UCLA Center for Embedded Network Sensing; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Trustee, KCRW Public Radio Foundation.
B.S. Physics, California Institute of Technology; Ph.D. Physics, University of Wisconsin
Walter Baer's research centers on the future evolution of the Internet, and how the Internet and other information technologies affect both commercial and public sector organizations and activities. He has published widely in the fields of communications, information technology, media, energy, and science and technology policy.
He previously held positions as deputy vice president of the RAND Corporation and professor of policy analysis at the RAND Graduate School; chief technology officer for the Times Mirror Company; assistant to the director of the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President, and member of technical staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Dr. Baer chairs the external advisory board of the UCLA Center for Embedded Network Sensing and has served on the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) advisory council, the Governor's Council on Information Technology for the State of California, and the technical advisory council of Cable Television Laboratories. He has also been appointed to the advisory boards of the U.S. Committee for the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, the Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information and CALSTART. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former chair of the AAAS Industrial Science and Technology Section. He is also a Trustee and former chair of the KCRW Public Radio Foundation in Santa Monica.
