I believe people should be judged not by certificates, but by their contributions to the world. However, people do ask about affiliations to watch for appearance of conflict of interest or to identify old classmates. Fair enough.

affiliations: Currently an Engineering Director at Google working on security.

Before the Bell Labs reorg, I was head of the Secure Networking Research Department in the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. After the reorg, I was the technical lead on CloudControl, an internal venture building a security product for defending against unwanted network traffic. I joined Bell Labs straight out of graduate school and was happily there through many company changes. Bell Labs is currently part of Alcatel-Lucent. I retired in April 2007.

professional groups: netlib, IEEE, ACM, SIAM was on Council and Board of Trustees, IFIP WG2.5.

editorial: Netlib/NHSE, SIAM Software Environments and Tools.
miscellaneous review panels for the US government and conferences, NRC Board on Assessment of NIST, panel for IT.
formerly: ACM Trans. Math. Software, IEEE Computational Science & Engineering, Numerical Algorithms, SIAM J Scientific Computing, SIAM News.

graduate school: Stanford University, Computer Science Dept.
PhD 1980, advisors: Gene Golub and Carroll Johnson, visiting from Oak Ridge
NSF fellowship
summers: General Motors Research; Bell Labs; SLAC

undergraduate: Michigan State University, Dept. Mathematics and Honors College, BS 1975
Alumni Distinguished Scholar, National Merit Scholar, PhiBetaKappa
summers: Structural Dynamics Research Corp.; Argonne National Lab

paleolithic era: I was born in 1953 to Burck and Dennise Grosse, grew up near Detroit, South Bend, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis. I fondly remember being Earth Day coordinator at Westport High School, Eagle Scout and Senior Patrol Leader of Troop 309, Order of the Arrow, and valedictorian at Mariemont High School.

My sister, Barbara Sidway, has an outstanding hotel, the Geiser Grand. My brothers, Scott (public health at CDC) and Russ (a terrific cook and outdoorsman), live in Atlanta and Portland.