Martin B.H. Weiss (mbw@pitt.edu) is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Research at the School of Information Science as well as Chairman of the Department of Information Science and Telecommunications at the University of Pittsburgh.  He holds a PhD. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University (1988) where he studied the standards development process under Professor Marvin A. Sirbu.  He also holds an MSE in Computer, Control, and Information Engineering
from the University of Michigan (1979) and a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University (1978).  His overall research themes are the analysis of situations where competing firms must cooperate, cost modeling of new technologies in telecommunications systems and the evolution of telecommunications industry.

His industrial experience includes technical and professional work at several R&D and consulting firms in the United States.  From 1978 to 1981, he was a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories; from 1983 to 1985, he was a Member of the Technical Staff at the MITRE Corp; and from 1985 to 1987 he was a Senior Consultant with Deloitte, Haskins, and Sells.

His current research projects include spectrum markets, secondary spectrum usage, bandwidth markets, cost studies in telecommunications and computing, and economics of new technologies in telecommunications. Together with Phyllis Bernt, he has published the book International Telecommunications (Howard Sams, 1993).  His new book Shaping American Telecommunications with Phyllis Bernt and Christopher Sterling, is forthcoming from LEA in January 2006.