Newton Howard, Ph.D.
Founder and Chairman of the Board
Phone: (202) 289-3332Email: newton dot howard at c4ads dot org
Dr. Newton Howard is the director of the Mind Machine Project and a resident scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his Doctoral degree in Cognitive Informatics and Mathematics from University of Paris 1 - La Sorbonne (France) where he was also awarded the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches for his leading work on the Physics of Cognition (PoC) and its applications to complex medical, economical and security equilibriums. While a graduate at the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Oxford, England, he proposed the Theory of Intention Awareness (IA). He also held positions as a professor of Mathematics and Psychiatry at The George Washington University, where he established leading academic programs directed to solve real world problems.
Dr. Howard is an international executive who served on multiple boards and is currently the Chairman of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), a Washington, D.C, national security group. He is a national security advisor to several U.S. Government organizations. During his early career he was a member of the U.S. national security officers community, serving in several strategic and operational posts.
His work has led to more than 20 U.S. patents and over 30 publications in the areas of information science, cognitive computational theory, and strategic thinking, as well as several awards and honors including a nomination to the White House fellowship during the Clinton administration. He is a member of the U.S government science advisory board, and was defense diplomat at defense attaché offices.
He holds a wealth of experience in structuring and directing multinational large-scale projects that require participation and buy-in at the level of the heads of state and local governments, and directed special multinational inter-governmental programs for Intel Corporation and the U.S. Government. He serves as an advisor to several private investment vehicles totaling 20 billion dollars in assets.
Publications
Articles and books
“Computational Methods for Counterterrorism”
Shlomo Argamon and Newton Howard (ed.)
Book, Springer, 2009
"The FCC's Broadband Over Power Line Inquiry: Considering Radio-Frequency Interference Rules of
the Road for the Third High-Speed Communications Wire"
David Tobenkin and Newton Howard
Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, Winter 2004
"Sensemaking in Symbiotic Joint-Cognitive Systems"
Bradley A. Singletary and Newton Howard
Computer-Human Interaction Conference 2005, Association for Computer Machinery Special
Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI)
"Intention Awareness for Collective Sensemaking: C2 Concepts and Organizations, Cognitive Domain Issues, Social Domain Issues"
Newton Howard and Ammar Qusaibaty
2006 Command and Control Research Technology Symposium (CCRTS): The State of the Art and the State of Practice
"Application of Deterrence Assessment Methodologies to Commercial Ferry Attack Scenario"
IEEE Homeland Security Conference, April 26, 2005
"Global Justice XML Data Model: current challenges and efforts to resolve them"
Newton Howard and Sergey Kanareykin
Law Enforcement Executive Forum 5.6
“Network-centric Information Policy”
Newton Howard and Ammar Qusaibaty
Presented at the INFOS 2004 Conference Cairo, Egypt in March 2004
“The physics of cognition - intention awareness”
University of Paris 1 - Sorbonne, thesis
“Theory of intention awareness in C3I”
University of Oxford, thesis
Technical reports
"The Cognitive Construct of Intention: A Promising New Computational Methodology"
Paper presented at the 31st annual meeting of the ISPP
May 23rd 2009, Paris, France
"The Center for Advanced Defense Studies: Educational Technology Webcast"
University of llinois at Springfield
Springfield, Illinois 2005
"Global Defense Policy of Laws: A systematic approach toward international law"
Defense Concepts Series, November 2005, Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS)
“Ethnomethodology for requirement elicitation and analysis of military systems”
Technical report
“Intention awareness in command control communication and intelligence”
Technical report
“The American corporation: an inside look of the American government”
Newton Howard and David Johnson
Technical report
"From Spirituality to Radicalization: Tableeghi Jamaat and the Potential for Transnational Violence"
Newton Howard and Ammar Qusaibaty
Center for Advanced Defense Studies, Defense Concepts Series, January 2006
“BPL Interference for Remote Detection and Identification”
Newton Howard and Sergey Kanareykin
Technical report
“Promoting Intention Awareness in Decision Support Systems”
Technical report
“Theory of Intention Awareness in Tactical Military Intelligence: Reducing Uncertainty
by Understanding the Cognitive Architecture of Intentions”
Technical report
“The Complexity in Weapons Systems Design”
Technical report
Understanding the Phenomena of Fratricide Book Project
Technical report
Multidimensional Time Understanding combinatorial manifolds
Newton Howard and Stefan Schmidt
Technical report
