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William Ditto is the company's visionary founder, and the inventor of chaos-based computing. His career spans many fields. As founding chair of the University of Florida's Department of Biomedical Engineering, his leadership provided a foundation for innovative research and academics. Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Dr. Ditto earned his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1980 and in 1988 earned his doctorate in physics from Clemson University. Upon completion of his Ph.D., Dr. Ditto began a career in research at the Department of the Navy in Washington, D.C. While there, he and his collaborators were the first to show that chaotic dynamics, an underlying and irregular rhythm found in all natural systems, could be controlled and manipulated. Later, while faculty in the department of physics at Georgia Institute of Technology, he earned international recognition for his application of chaos control to heart arrhythmias and seizures and epilepsy in the brain. He was also awarded the prestigious Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award as well as one of Georgia Tech's highest college-wide achievement awards.In 1999, Dr. Ditto moved from the Department of Physics to the newly formed Georgia Tech/Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering, where he contributed to its mercurial two-year rise to national prominence and top five ranking. As the author of numerous patents and more than 70 articles in technical publications including Nature, Science and Scientific American, Dr. Ditto's research is frequently featured in the national and international press, including such publications as Science News, Time, Scientific American, Business Week and the Washington Post, and interviews with National Public Radio, CNN, BBC and the Discovery Channel. Besides his advances in chaos-based computing, Dr. Ditto is also internationally known for the development of a new type of computer based upon nonlinear biological principles - work which lays the foundation for the construction of living computers. Dr. Ditto recently was named a fellow of the American Physical Society and a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. | 