711HPW guest speaker to explore physical-cognitive domain distinctions

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  • By John Schutte
  • 711th Human Performance Wing
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio --  Dr. Adam H. Russell, program manager for the Tools for Recognizing Useful Signals of Trustworthiness, or TRUST, Program at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, will present "Opening Descartes' Blackbox: Some Hints About What Human Performance Research Can Tell Us About Useful and Not So Useful Distinctions Between the Physical and the Cognitive," from 2:00 to 3:30 PM on April 9 at the Air Force Institute of Technology's Kenney Hall here.

Dr. Russell's recent research focuses on human performance, including the strategic implications of emerging human performance technologies, nutritional neuroscience, and performance optimization for both government and commercial organizations.

The goal of IARPA's TRUST Program is to significantly advance the intelligence community's ability to determine whom can be trusted under certain conditions and in contexts relevant to the intelligence community, perhaps even in the presence of stress and/or deception.

Dr. Russell's presentation will explore research on emerging science in human performance that is unsettling--quite nicely--the traditional categorical distinctions between the "physical" and the "cognitive" domains of performance.

His visit is sponsored by the 711th Human Performance Wing under the high-visibility guest speaker series directed by Dr. Morley Stone, 711 HPW chief scientist.

Dr. Russell received his Ph.D in Social Anthropology from Oxford University in 2003 and was a Rhodes Scholar there from 1996 to1999. While there, he received four rugby Blues ("shiners") for Oxford. He also played for the United States men's national rugby team, the Eagles.

IARPA was created in 2007 and modeled after the military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Its mission is to develop groundbreaking technologies for the U.S. intelligence community. IARPA consolidated the National Security Agency's Disruptive Technology Office (previously called the Advanced Research and Development Activity); the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's National Technology Alliance; and the Central Intelligence Agency's Intelligence Technology Innovation Center.

The presentation is open only to WPAFB personnel; it is not open to the general public. Kenney Hall is Room 2200 of Building 642 in the AFIT complex at 2950 Hobson Way.

For more information, please contact Mike Griffin at 937-255-7629.