In his opening remarks, Dr. Khosla will discuss the importance and the significant value of collaborative learning and information sharing. A historical perspective will be provided with examples where shared learning and openness in science and engineering have made important discoveries. These discoveries have made this word smaller, and our linkages more productive. nanoHUB and HUBzero are excellent examples of the modern approaches to information sharing that support scientific research, education, and collaboration around the world.

Dr. Rajinder P. Khosla joined the National Science Foundation in October 1996 and is currently a Program Director of the Integrative, Hybrid, and Complex Systems (IHCS) Program in the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division in the Engineering (ENG) Directorate. He previously served as an Acting Director of the ECCS Division (January 2000- February 2002), Program Director in the Electronics, Photonics, and Device Technology (EPDT) Program. From (October 2008-October 2009), he was the Deputy Division Director of the Computer & Network System CNS) Division in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. Dr. Khosla was on a special assignment as an Embassy Fellow (March 2002-June 2002), to study the state of Nanotechnology research in Japan, at the US Embassy in Tokyo on behalf of the NSF and the US State Department.

Dr. Khosla worked at Eastman Kodak Co. from 1966-96. He was the General Manager of the Microelectronics Technology Division at Kodak from 1985-95, and was responsible for the research, development, manufacturing, marketing and sales of solid-state imagers and support IC's.

Dr. Khosla received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Purdue University in 1966. In 1974-75, he was on an academic award from Kodak as a Visiting Scientist in the Department of EE&CS at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In the fall of 1989, he attended the Harvard Business School for the Advanced Management Program. He was an Executive-on-Loan at Cornell University during 1995-96 to develop industry/university relations.

His areas of expertise are: Engineering Systems on a Chip; Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS); Applications of Micro/nanotechnologies in Biology and Medicine; Biosensors, Image Sensors and Sensor Systems; Nanoelectronic Device Design, Modeling, Simulation, and Processing Technologies. He has been the Program Manager for the Center for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems Technology (CISST) Engineering Research Center at John Hopkins University and is currently the Program Manager for the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) at Purdue University.

Dr. Khosla is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). He was awarded the 1990 IEEE Frederick Philips Award for R&D technical management. He is the Distinguished Alumnus of the College of Science at Purdue University.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Rajinder P Khosla (2010), "Opening Remarks," https://help.hubzero.org/resources/214.

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