@article{bac38d741e14490ab72ad70e976dae72,
title = "Another kind of service",
abstract = "During his term as program manager for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), Prof. Douglas Cochran of Arizona State University (ASU) imparted the importance of service and the role it plays in academic settings. He encouraged individuals to undertake the service of helping others to develop new research initiatives, allocate project funding and represent the interest and value of their contributions.",
author = "Douglas Cochran",
note = "Funding Information: As a closing note, although my depar ture from DARPA leaves the mathematics program in the very capable hands of Carey Schwartz and Ben Mann, I don{\textquoteright}t think either of them would claim to have the same signal processing and control systems interests that I do. In fact, over the past year or so, Carey, Ben, and I have actively sought someone on the theoretical end of signal processing, or perhaps in information theory or control science, to succeed me in ACMP. To this end, I have engaged many colleagues in the same sort of conversation Dennis Healy broached with me in that 1999 workshop in Illinois. And the response was usually about the same: “Well, I already have a job. And my research is going pretty well right now—I just got two new grants from NSF. And the kids wouldn{\textquoteright}t want to change schools this year. But maybe in a few years . . .” Naturally, I play the “service” card. But it hasn{\textquoteright}t worked. Yet. I am indebted to Arye Nehorai for the opportunity to play that card in this forum, not just on behalf of the DARPA ACMP, but also in the broader interests of our profession, which has an ongoing and worldwide need for capable people to undertake this kind of service. Funding Information: Beyond certain similarities, however, the day-to-day nature of working in this type of position varies quite a bit. Some agencies and foundations, such as the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Australian Research Council, have charters to support excellent research spanning broad areas of science and technology. Others, like DARPA and the European Space Agency, have more of a mission orientation and support projects that contribute to that mission. In all the cases I have observed, though, the job generally entails a blend of administrative, entrepreneurial, and research activities.",
year = "2005",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1109/MSP.2005.1511816",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "22",
pages = "8--10",
journal = "IEEE Signal Processing Magazine",
issn = "1053-5888",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "5",
}