Charles Ostman is currently a senior fellow at the Institute for Global Futures, a strategic technologies "think tank" research group which engages in advanced technology development and trend analysis, with a particular focus toward examining the synergistic relationships between various emergent technologies, and the socio-economic environments in which they may be fostered.
He has 25+ years experience in the fields of electronics, physics, materials sciences, and computers, including eight years at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. Previous professional experience covers a diverse range of technical development projects at facilities ranging from GTE Lenkurt, to Litton Industries, Lucas Films, and a variety of other technology related companies and institutions.
His current primary interests are in the development of business and strategic applications in distributed intelligence assets, reconfigurable systems and architectures, and the next generation of computing systems which mimic the physiologies of living systems, best described perhaps as "self evolving" machines.
