 lan L. Porter is an emeritus professor of the School of Public Policy.
His major concentration
is technology forecasting and assessment. He received a B.S. in Chemical
Engineering from Caltech (1967) and a PhD in Engineering Psychology from
UCLA (1972). He served on the University of Washington faculty through
1974. In 1975 he joined the School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
at Georgia Tech, where he now serves as Professor. He also is Professor
of Public Policy and directs the Technology Policy and Assessment Center
at Georgia Tech. From 1991 to 1993 he was Acting Director of Georgia Tech's
Management of Technology Program.
Dr. Porter teaches primarily in the
areas of technology forecasting and assessment, and management of technology.
He teaches Analysis of Emerging Technologies in the National Technological
University Management of Technology graduate program. He has taught short
courses on Emerging Technologies, Management of Emerging Technologies,
and Technology Development & Assessment at Georgia Tech, various IBM
locations, and in Mexico, South Africa, and Botswana.
He has authored some 160 professional
publications, including the following books (as author or co-author, editor
or co-editor):
A Guidebook for Technology Assessment
and Impact Analysis, 1980
Science, Technology, and National
Policy, 1981
Integrated Impact Assessment, 1983
The Impact of Office Automation on
Clerical Employment, 1985-2000, 1985
Methods and Experiences in Impact
Assessment, 1986
Interdisciplinary Analysis and Research,
1986
Impact Assessment Today, 1986
International Impact Assessment (special
issue of the Impact Assessment Bulletin), 1987
Forecasting and Management of Technology,
1991.
Current interests focus on technology
opportunities analysis, in particular, computer-aided exploration of information
resident in electronic databases. Recent projects have studied telework
(DoD), electronic delivery of services(Office of Technology Assessment-OTA),
office automation (Dept. of Labor; OTA), computers in R&D (Industrial
Research Institute), and indicators of international technology competitiveness
(National Science Foundation). He recently collaborated with Search Technology
Inc. to integrate technology opportunities analysis into a program management
package for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
Dr. Porter is Associate Editor
for Technology Analysis & Strategic Management and for Information
and Decision Technologies. He co-founded the International Association
for Impact Assessment and served it variously as editor of the Impact Assessment
Bulletin, Secretary, Executive Director, and President (1995-96). He has
served as chairman, Engineering and Public Policy Division, American Society
for Engineering Education; chairman, Technology Forecasting and Technology
Transfer Committee, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers;
representative to the Engineering Section, American Association for the
Advancement of Science; and member, NAS/NAE Committee on National Research
Council Research Associates Career Outcomes. He serves on the Bellcore
Advisory Council.
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