Martin Dudziak
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Martin Dudziak (b 1952) is an American scientist (quantum physics, biophysics, mathematics) who has developed seminal work in areas of complex systems, quantum theory (quantum networks, logic, gravity/relativity), and emergent critical processes (ECP). He grew up in Buffalo, New York, studied at Mt. St. Joseph's, Canisius High School, Colgate University, Johns Hopkins and The Union Institute. He received his PhD in theoretical and computational physics in 1993, and has worked for a number of corporations and universities including Intel, ST Microelectronics, Battelle, Medical College of Virginia(MCV), VCU, Martin-Marietta and Silicon Dominion. At MCV he established one of the earliest nanotechnology labs with NSF, DOE and Whittaker support, the Molecular Engineering and Biocomputing Lab. In the late 1990s he became active in applying physical and biological models to distributed sensing, biodefense and counterterrorism research and the extension of knowledge acquisition, discovery and learning for problems that involve emergent, critical events and (mathematically) catastrophic properties. This work came to be focused upon natural disaster and terrorist events.
After 2002 his research and focus led to the formation of TETRAD Technologies Group, Inc. [1] and the development of the Nomad Eyes [2] architecture for amorphous distributed sensing and situation awareness. The Nomad Eyes architecture was first designed in 2003 and has been copied and used as a basis for a number of projects by others at MITRE Corp., Univ. of Pittsburgh, and Institute of Defense and Homeland Security (e.g., Local Eyes, Red Cell, others). Nomad Eyes has been designed to work with ordinary cellular phones and "COTS" (commercial off-the-shelf) technology for both military, homeland security and personal, civilian use. One application, incorporating MEMS and nanoscale technology related directly to Martin's work in the early 90's and refined by collaborators and colleagues, includes sensing and detection of explosives of IEDs (improvised explosive devices) such as have been employed by terrorists and insurgents in Iraq and throughout the world.
Martin is also a writer of poetry and short fiction and an artist (painter) who has exhibited and participated in contemporary art performances in Europe.
