Richard Martin serves as Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of the Advisory Board of IIA. In 1995 he founded Inmedius, Inc., a software company spun off from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) where he is currently an adjunct Principal Systems Scientist. He has served as the Chairman of the Board, CEO, and Chief Technology Officer of Inmedius which acquired subsidiary companies in Germany and England. In 1985, he was a founding director of the Software Engineering Institute at CMU and served as Director of the Technology Exploration, Technology Transition, and the Program Development Programs. In 1991 he moved to a position in the School of Computer Science at CMU as a faculty member in the Robotics Institute and also the Human Computer Interaction Institute. He is co-director of the Wearable Computer Lab at CMU where over 24 prototype wearable computer systems have been developed since 1991 and is co-author of a patent for a wearable computer input device. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, he was the founding Deputy Director for the Artificial Intelligence Program at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Company (MCC) in Texas, the first pre-competitive consortium of competing computer companies in the U.S. Prior to MCC, he served in the Navy. He commanded the first F-14 Tomcat squadron during fleet introduction where he also served as the Integrated Logistics Support manager as a member of the Naval Air Systems Command’s F-14 program office.
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Following that, he was the Executive Officer (2nd in command) of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier NIMITZ during its first two deployments, and then the first Commanding Officer of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier CARL VINSON during construction, sea trials, and its first deployment. He reported directly to Admiral Rickover as a nuclear power engineer where he was responsible for the initial fueling of the nuclear reactors, initial water fill, initial criticality, power range checks, dock trials, and sea trials where Admiral Rickover rode the ship on his last sea trial prior to retirement. While in command of CARL VINSON, he experienced the full range of operational power plant and electrical system operations including actual casualties while deployed to the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf area. In 1994 he was a co-founder of Pittsburgh Voyager, a non-profit organization which operates an award winning, experience-based education program for middle school children on boats operated on Pittsburgh’s rivers. He led the “green engineering” of a new boat with state-of-the art electric propulsion and electronics, borrowing concepts from the new class of nuclear-powered submarines. He received a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy where he stood first in the class in Electrical Engineering, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California San Diego, except for dissertation, which was stopped by Viet Nam service. |
