The Noosphere Research Institute
Ben LoftinBen Loftin has an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Houston. By day, he is a guidance, navigation and control (GNC) engineer at Raytheon, at night he serves as the caretaker for PlanetPhysics. His main research interests include: Optimal Control, Collaborative Physics, Quantum Computing, Robotics and Physics Education. If he could change one thing, it would be to replicate what open source software has accomplished with information. Nearly every project in his professional career has been significantly enhanced by open source software, but truly free information (i.e. copyleft works, public domain...) has amounted to little more than a single scooter on the information highway. |