Professional of the Year for 2008 in Government Science: Steve Stringer

	Steve Stringer
Industry	Government Science
Title	Industrial Fellow
Expertise	Reducing cost and time-to-market; increasing disruptive market innovation; technology licensing and commercialization; immersive visualization in science and media industries
Current Organization	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Type of Organization	National laboratory
Major Product	Basic science and supercomputing
Area of Distribution	National
University/Degree	B.A., Anthropology, Wright State University
Born	May 31, 1957, West Point, New York
Published Works	"Connecting business needs with basic science", Research-Technology Management, Vol. 51, No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2008, ISSN 0895-6308, Online ISSN: 1930-0166; Public Speaking- Atoms to earnings: Connecting business needs with basic science, Industry Conference, 2007; Atoms to art: Connecting scientific visualization with film and entertainment, Sante Fe Film Festival 2007, New Mexico Media Industries Summit 2008, UNM School of Architecture and Planning 2008; Energy and petrochemical alternative: Sustainable reduction of dependence on oil, Industry Conference, 2008
Hobbies & Sports	Tennis, mountain biking
Career Accomplishments	Sold the world's fastest supercomputer, 1996; Built the world's most powerful scientific visualization theater, 2004; Built the world's most powerful scientific visualization Cave, 2005; $210M to date commercial sales record; $5.5M to date science & industry directed project collaborations
Work History	Staff Member, Software Engineer, Northrop Corp., 1981-83; Technical Staff Member, Software Engineer, Logicon, Inc., 1983-86; Technical Staff Member, Software Engineer, Science Applications International Corp., 1986-89; Systems Engineer, Sales, Convex Computer Corp., 1989-91; Senior Systems Engineer, Sales, Cray Research, Inc., 1991-94; Sales Executive, High Performance Computing, Cray Research/Silicon Graphics, Inc., 1994-2001; Technical Staff Member, Project Manager, Weirich Technical Associates, 2001-05; Technical Staff Member, Industrial Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2005-present
Children	Joshua, Justine, Shelby, Caleb
Spouse	Edith Hermida Stringer
Married	September 19, 1981
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