Joseph DeRosa

This is a picture of Hawaii ... with me in it. Joe Derosa

I am interested in the newly developing field of Complex Systems Engineering. How do people, processes and technology interact to develop (evolve?) new systems - especially the info technology-intensive ones like the World Wide Web? I work in Systems Engineering at the MITRE Corporation. For those of you who don’t know, MITRE is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center – a not for profit operating in the public interest.

I have a background in communications theory and electromagnetic theory - a BS, MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering, and some time at Babson College Graduate School of Business. I previously worked in Satellite Communications at MIT Lincoln lab, Communications at LINKABIT (which later spun off QUALCOMM), and had my own consulting company. The Hawaii pictures are more interesting. You should see the ones from Paris and Rome.

There was a time when people could not figure out how to analyze a communications or radar signal buried in noise. Then some people like Wiener in the U.S. and Kolmogorov in the Soviet Union asked some different questions, and solved the problem using new methods drawn from random process theory and harmonic analysis. They invented a whole new field that helped usher in the information age. I sense we are on the cusp of a similar revolution in complex systems – thus my sojourn at Santa Fe Institute. At the very least, we should all get some good photos!