Stephen E. Cross
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Stephen E. Cross
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|10|7}}
| birth_place = United States
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| field = Software engineering
Systems engineering
Process improvement
Technology transfer
| work_institution = Georgia Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
| alma_mater = University of Cincinnati (1974)
Air Force Institute of Technology (1977)
University of Illinois (1983)
| doctoral_advisor = David Waltz
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| prizes = Defense Superior Service Medal (1991){{cite press release|first=Kelly|last=Kimberland|url=http://www.sei.cmu.edu/newsitems/crossgeorgia.cfm|title=Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute Director Accepts Vice President Position at Georgia Institute of Technology|publisher=Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute|date=2003-06-12|access-date=2010-01-14}}
University of Cincinnati College of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus (2002)
IEEE Fellow (2003){{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_2003.html#C|title=Fellow Class of 2003: C|publisher=IEEE|access-date=2012-07-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629170806/http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_2003.html#C|archive-date=2011-06-29}} Irish America Star of the South (2010){{cite news|url=http://irishamerica.com/2012/05/stephen-cross/|title=Stephen Cross - Stars of the South - 2010|work=Irish America|access-date=2012-07-31}}
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Stephen Edward Cross is the executive vice president for research (EVPR) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), a position to which he was appointed in 2010.{{cite press release|first=Michael|last=Hagearty|url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=55020|title=Cross Named Executive Vice President for Research|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|date=2010-03-19|access-date=2010-04-03}} As EVPR, Cross coordinates research efforts among Georgia Tech's colleges, research units and faculty; and provides central administration for all research, economic development and related support units at Georgia Tech. This includes direct oversight of Georgia Tech's interdisciplinary research institutes, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2) and the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC).
Prior to this position, he served as director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute from 2003 until 2010,{{cite web|url=http://www.sigada.org/conf/sigada2004/Stephen-Cross-Bio.pdf|title=Dr. Stephen E. Cross|publisher=ACM Special Interest Group on Ada|year=2004|access-date=2010-01-12}} director and chief executive officer of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute from 1994 to 2003,{{cite press release|url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=148 |title=Stephen Cross Tapped to Lead Georgia Tech Research Institute |date=2009-06-09 |publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology |access-date=2009-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403063607/http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=148 |archive-date=April 3, 2012 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/director|title=Dr. Stephen E. Cross, GTRI Director|publisher=Georgia Tech Research Institute|access-date=2009-08-08}} and an officer in the United States Air Force from 1974 to 1994.
He is an IEEE Fellow, a former editor-in-chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems and former associate editor of the Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Systems Management.{{cite web|url=http://www.isye.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/profile.php?entry=sc251|title=Stephen E. Cross, Ph.D.|work=H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|access-date=2012-11-12}} He is a recipient of the Defense Superior Service Medal. Cross has published more than 60 research papers in computing, and has provided expert testimony to the United States Congress.{{cite press release|first=Robert|last=Nesmith|url=http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=48968|title=Stephen Cross Appointed to Defense Science Board|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|date=2010-01-14|access-date=2010-01-14}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gatech.edu/inc/hgFile.php%3Ffname%3Dcross_hasc_dsp_testimony_1-23-2012_final.pdf|title=Testimony of Dr. Stephen E. Cross, Executive Vice President for Research|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|date=2012-01-23|access-date=2012-11-12}}
Education and Air Force
Cross attended Madison High School in Madison, Ohio, from 1965 to 1969.{{cite web|url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/steve-cross/4/325/9b7|title=Steve Cross|publisher=LinkedIn|access-date=2012-07-30}} Cross earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1974 and subsequently joined the United States Air Force.{{cite web|url=http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2002/tc2002014_6757.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020126224928/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2002/tc2002014_6757.htm|archive-date=January 26, 2002|title=Stephen Cross: Crusader for Sensible Software|first=Alex|last=Salkever|publisher=Business Week|date=2002-01-04|access-date=2010-01-12}} While in the Air Force, he received a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1977 and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1983. Cross also graduated from United States Air Force Test Pilot School's Flight Test Engineer Program, the Air War College, and the National Defense University.
While in the Air Force, Cross wrote embedded software for F-15s and F-16s. His experience also touched on software for cruise missile navigation, logistics, and air traffic control.{{cite journal|title=Computer understanding of air traffic control displays|author=Cross, Stephen|journal=IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics|publisher=IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society|volume=SMC-15|number=1|date=Jan–Feb 1985|pages=133–135|doi=10.1109/tsmc.1985.6313400|s2cid=30000508}} Cross was a program manager for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1989 to 1994; he was also a member and chairman of DARPA's Information Science & Technology panel. He retired from the Air Force in 1994.
Academic career
In 1994, Cross joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, becoming a principal research scientist in its Robotics Institute and Institute for Software Research.{{cite journal|url=http://www.crosstalkonline.org/storage/issue-archives/2001/200106/200106-cross.pdf|title=The Software Engineer: Skills for Change|author1=Cross, Stephen |author2=Graettinger, Caroline |journal=Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering|date=June 2001|pages=22–24}} In 1996, he became director and CEO of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute.{{cite news|url=http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/030625/030625_briefs.html|title=SEI Director Accepts VP Post at Georgia Tech|work=Carnegie Mellon News|publisher=Carnegie Mellon|date=2003-06-25|access-date=2012-07-30}} While at Carnegie Mellon, Cross promoted more reliable software development practices such as code reuse.
In late 2003, Cross was chosen to serve as director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, an applied research arm of the Georgia Institute of Technology.{{cite web|url=http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/history/our-forefathers/dr-stephen-e-cross|title=Dr. Stephen E. Cross|work=GTRI Historical Archive|publisher=Georgia Tech Research Institute|access-date=2012-07-30}} He is also a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and an adjunct professor in the College of Computing and the Scheller College of Business.{{cite web|url=http://www.ti.gatech.edu/people/profile/cross.php|title=Stephen E. Cross, Ph.D.|publisher=Georgia Tech Tennenbaum Institute|access-date=2010-01-12}} Cross was appointed Georgia Tech's executive vice president of research in 2010, assuming the position on May 1, 2010. In June 2012, Cross and David S. Stephens (vice president for research of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center) published an op-ed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution supporting biomedical research.{{cite news|url=http://www.ajc.com/opinion/case-for-biomedical-research-1467325.html|title=Case for biomedical research|author1=Stephens, David S |author2=Cross, Stephen |work=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|date=2012-06-29|access-date=2012-07-30}}
Memberships and awards
In 2010, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates named Cross to a three-year term on the Defense Science Board. Cross previously served on the Defense Science Board's Task Force on Defense Software. While at Georgia Tech, Cross has joined several research advisory boards, including the Health Systems Institute, the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, the Strategic Energy Initiative and the Tennenbaum Institute.
Cross is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); he was named an IEEE Fellow in 2003 "for the development and use of modern software engineering techniques in advanced systems".{{cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/fellows/Alphabetical/cfellows.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706034937/http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/fellows/Alphabetical/cfellows.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 6, 2008|title=IEEE - Fellows - C|publisher=IEEE|access-date=2010-01-12}}{{cite web|url=http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/21101|title=Receptionto Welcome Steve Cross to GTRI (notes)|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|date=2003-11-10|access-date=2010-01-12|last1=Clough |first1=G. Wayne }} He was editor-in-chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems from 1994 to 1997, and associate editor of the Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Systems Management from 2003 to 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.evpr.gatech.edu/about|title=About Steve Cross|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology|access-date=2012-07-30}} In 1991, Cross was awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal; in 2002, he was named a University of Cincinnati College of Engineering Distinguished Alumnus; and in 2010, Irish America magazine named him a Star of the South.{{cite news|url=http://irishamerica.com/2012/05/stephen-cross/|title=Stephen Cross - Stars of the South - 2010|work=Irish America magazine|access-date=2012-07-31}}
Selected publications
- {{cite journal|title=A Case Study of a Research University's Role in Supporting an Innovation Ecosystem|author=Cross, Stephen|journal=Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship|issn=2251-2039|pages=48–52|year=2012}}
- {{cite journal|url=http://smartech.gatech.edu/jspui/bitstream/1853/38877/1/The%20System%20Engineering%20and%20Test%20(TSET)%20Approach%20for%20Unprecedented%20Systems.pdf|title=The System Engineering and Test (TSET) Approach for Unprecedented Systems|author1=Weiss, Lora |author2=Roberts, Rusty |author3=Cross, Stephen |journal=Journal of the International Test and Evaluation Association|publisher=International Test and Evaluation Association|date=September 2009|volume=30|pages=386–394}}
- {{cite journal|title=Using Organization Simulation to Develop Unprecedented Systems|journal=Organizational Simulation from Modeling and Simulation to Games and Entertainment|author=Cross, Stephen|editor=Rouse, William |editor2=Boff, Kenneth|publisher=John Wiley & Sons |pages=37–54|year=2005}}
- {{cite book|chapter=Reflections on the Process Revolution|title=Tutorial on Software Management|publisher=IEEE Computer Society Press|author=Cross, Stephen|edition=6th|editor=Reifer, Donald|pages=77–90|year=2002|isbn=0-7695-1100-7}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.evpr.gatech.edu/about Official profile]
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