Glen Speckert was the Technology Architect of the Integrated Exploitation Capability (IEC), a National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) program which will deliver 2153 workstations over an 8 year deployment plan at 63 NIMA and DoD sites worldwide. He helped structure the interactions between the IEC and other United States Imagery and Geospatial Systems (now NSGI) programs, especially the multi-Petabyte Library system, while he was the Interface Architect. His contributions to the Team IEC proposal, primed by Lockheed in Gaithersburg MD, were central to the architecture of the proposed design.

Mr. Speckert was the Lead Systems Engineer for TASC's Information Dissemination Manager, the central component of DARPA's Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination (BADD) program. He developed the major set of requirements that defined the terminology and structure of the TASC software deliverable, the Information Disseminatoin Manager (IDM).

Mr. Speckert also supported the NIMA Video Metadata Working Group, developing the Video Metadata Encoding standards which were proposed to SMPTE.

Mr. Speckert was the Project Engineer of the Image Management, Archive, and Communications Testbed (IMACTS), a 5 Terabyte image archive, with very large images browsable in seconds, and fully accessible in minutes. IMACTS prototyped community standards, integrated commercial exploitation products, and provided innovative access extensions to query / browse / navigate / view a large image and video database. This early 90's project prototyped the operating requirements for the NIMA Library System. Mr Speckert had previously been the technical architect of a study examining architectural alternatives for national image archives. Glen received a Certificate for Exceptional Performance for his work in IMACTS.

Mr. Speckert has been an active member of the NIMA USIGS Interoperability Working Group, the Common Image Interoperability Working Group, the Image Access Working Group, and the Image Handling Standards and Guidelines core team. This process has established standards for the use of national image data by commercial workstations. This work included extending the National Image Transmission Format (NITF) for use with full frame imagery. Mr. Speckert was the principle author of the NITF Support Data Extensions for national imagery. Later efforts focused on establishing stream and tile based access standards to supplement file based interoperability.

Mr. Speckert had management responsibility for all software in support of the Pixar Image Computer at the time of the sale of the Pixar Image Computer group to Vicom. This included Image Processing, Volume Visualization, Terrain Mapping, Electronic Darkroom, and Electronic Light Table products. He transferred the PIXAR image computing software group to new management shortly after the acquisition of the Image Computer hardware and software by Vicom Inc.

Mr. Speckert joined Pixar at the start of the Hurricane project, and was its software project manager. The Hurricane evolved into the Pixar Electronic Light Table (ELT) and integrated ELT / Image Processing windowed application systems. These systems could harness mulitple Chaps, had large memory for their time, could output to dual screens (including stereo and 2k x 2k displays), included early RAIDs, and were integrated as imaging extensions to the Network Extensible Windowing System (NeWS) in the PII-9.

The PII-9 and ELT software were developed as the core of the prototype Integrated System for Imagery Analysis (ISIA). Mr. Speckert further managed the ELT package into product development, including installation/training at NPIC's National Exploitation Laboratory in 1990.

Mr. Speckert played major roles at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in three programs: Laser Isotope Separation Program, Beam Research Program, and the Magnetic Fusion Program.

July 1983 to June 1988 - Computer Control Systems for Laser Isotope Separation
Mr. Speckert prototyped, architected, and became the group leader for the Laser Control system for the Laser Demonstration Facility (LDF), a multi-node computer control system which included a large Vax Cluster and 70 distributed processors and 30 user access stations. The LDF is a large array of lasers which produces a stable high power tunable frequency for use in separating isotopes of Uranium or Plutonium. The control system team included eight people, plus a 24 hr/day operations staff. Mr. Speckert also designed the Laser Control system for the planned production plant at Idaho Falls.

June 1981 to July 1983 - Lead Software Engineer for the Advanced Test Accelerator
Mr. Speckert was responsible for the software control and monitoring system of DARPA's Advanced Test Accellerator, a 50 Mev, 10k amp induction accelerator. Responsibilities included system level architecture and planning, management of software team (12 people), and development of the control ICDs. Mr. Speckert was personally responsible for the software development of the 5 nanosecond beam diagnostics imaging system.

September 1978 to June 1981 - Team Leader within Supervisory Controls Group for the MFTF
Mr Speckert lead a three person team (8 man-year) which designed and implemented a touchpanel based graphical control room for the Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF). The MFTF contained the world's largest superconducting magnets and was the principal alternative to Tokamaks for controlling Fusion. The "soft" control room contained 42 color displays and touchpanels, and interfaced to the control system which consisted of 9 minicomputers with shared memory, and 75 distributed LSI-11's.

Mr. Speckert worked on several Machine Vision projects in a period of 2 years, and produced four papers while at the MIT AI Labs, working under the direction of Professor BKP Horn.

M.S. 1978, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana
B.S. 1975, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speckert, Glen, Emerging Imaging Technology at CeBIT 2004, published on Byte.com, April 26, 2004.
Speckert, Glen, Adobe's LiveMotion Fills an Inside Straight, review published on WebTools.com, March 21, 2000.
Speckert, Glen, Seybold Seminars Boston 2000 Report, published on Byte.com, March 13, 2000.
Speckert, Glen, Adobe Photoshop 5.5 - A Winning Web Workhorse, review published on WebTools.com, January 13, 2000.
Speckert, Glen, From Pixar to Velocity Engine, feature article published on Byte.com, November 15, 1999.
Speckert, Glen, WebSTAR Transforms Your Mac Into A Web Server, review published on Byte.com, October 12, 1999.
Speckert, Glen, The Dawn of Desktop Supercomputers, feature article published on Byte.com, September 2, 1999.
Speckert, Glen, Special Effects Plug-Ins For Video Editing, review published on Byte.com, August 5, 1999.
Speckert, Glen, Hot Mac Video Editing – Adobe After Effects 4.0, review published on Byte.com, July 19, 1999.
Speckert, Glen, Hot New Video Editing Software For Macs – Final Cut Pro 1.0, review published on Byte.com, July 5, 1999.

Speckert, Glen, and Deschenes, Chris "Adaptive Infrastructure for Distributed Video Exploitation", IEEE Conference on Homeland Defense, May 7-8, 2003.

Stephenson, T., DeCleene, B, Speckert, G, Voorhees, H, , BADD phase II: DDS Information Management Architecture, Digitization of the Battlefield II, SPIE Proceedings Vol 3080, April 1997

Stephenson, T., Braudes, R., Speckert, G., Steinberg, S., Upton, R., Mass Storage Systems for Image Management and Distribution, Proceedings - Twelfth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, April 26-29, 1993, p 233-240.

Speckert, G., Electronic Light Table Tools for Photointerpretation, Proceedings Society for Information Display (SID) International Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, vol XXI, May 1990, pp 57 - 60.

Speckert G.; Carpenter, L.; Russell, M.; Bradstreet, J.; Waite, T.; Conklin, C., Electronic Light Table and Multispectral Image Processing Tools, Proceedings - Implementing Image Processing Systems: Strategies and Solutions, London, England, March 1990, pp 217 - 225.

Speckert, G. C., Evolution Paths of a General Control System, Proceedings IEEE 10th Symposium on Engineering Problems of Fusion Research, November 1983.

Speckert, G.; Guenther, D.; Grant, C., Towards a Generalized Computer Control System: A Condensed Analysis, Proceedings IEEE 9th Symposium on Engineering Problems of Fusion Research, October 1981, pp 876 - 879.

Speckert, G., Organization of Graphic Controls for a State of the Art Human Interface, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, October 1980, pp 404 -409.

Speckert, G. S., The Man-Machine Interface for the Mirror Fusion Test Facility, Proceedings IEEE 8th Symposium on Engineering Problems of Fusion Research, November 1979, pp 1995 -1999.

Futrelle, R. P. and Speckert, G. C., Extraction of Motion Data by Interactive Image Processing, Proceedings IEEE Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, June 1978, pp 405 -408.

Speckert, G., A Computerized Look at Cat Locomotion, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Working Paper, July 1976.

Speckert, G., Hand Eye Coordination, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Working Paper, July 1976.

Speckert, G., Knowledge Driven Recognition of the Human Body, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Working Paper, January 1976.

Speckert, G., Visual Tracking of Real World Objects, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Working Paper 106, July 1975.

Hobbies include Dog Frisbee, Sailing, and Juggling