Newton Howard

Dr. Newton Howard is the founder and chairman of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, a Washington, D.C. National Security Group. He is a leading international researcher on the physics of cognition (PoC) and its applications to defense and international security.

A graduate of the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Oxford, his work there proposed the Theory of Intention Awareness (IA). Dr. Howard is the founder and director of the Institute for Mathematical Complexity and Cognition (MC2). Addressing subjects related to cognition, complexity and intentions, this institute is also active in systems engineering and international security. Dr. Howard also heads the Descartes Institute, which focuses on behavior models and codification to develop new approaches for counterterrorism based on in-depth analysis.

A professor in mathematics, informatics and psychiatry, Dr. Howard holds teaching positions at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He is an active member of several research laboratories worldwide, including Les Écoles de Coëtquidan - École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, and the École Militaire in Paris. Having held held the posts of visiting professor/associate and defense diplomat, Dr. Howard is the director of leading international cooperation programs on Codification of Asymmetric Emerging Trends in Global Security and Information Assurance, and is a Senior Research Professor at the Cyber Security Policy Research Institute, as well as director of homeland security initiatives at RIT.

Dr. Howard advises several organizations in the U.S. special operations community and has extensive experience of working in the industry. He holds multiple U.S. patents, and is the author of several publications in the areas of military information science, computer systems theory, and strategic thinking. He is affiliated with the U.S. Intelligence Community and served honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces as Strategic Intelligence Officer.

Dr. Howard holds a Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Cognitive Informatics from La Sorbonne in Paris, France.

elected publications

[http://www.c4ads.org/files/CADS_pubs_clash_abst.pdf "The Clash of Perceptions"]
Mathieu Guidère and Newton Howard
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Defense Studies
"Defense Concepts Series", March 2006

[http://www.c4ads.org/files/CADS_report_0106_TJ.PDF "From Spirituality to Radicalization: Tableeghi Jamaat and the Potential for Transnational Violence"]
Newton Howard and Ammar Qusaibaty
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Defense Studies
"Defense Concepts Series", January 2006

[http://www.c4ads.org/files/CADS_2006CCRTS_abstract.pdf "Intention Awareness for Collective Sensemaking: C2 Concepts and Organizations, Cognitive Domain Issues, Social Domain Issues"]
Newton Howard and Ammar Qusaibaty
2006 Command and Control Research Technology Symposium (CCRTS): The State of the Art and the State of Practice

[http://www.c4ads.org/files/cads_report_GDPL_111505.pdf "Global Defense Policy of Laws: A systematic approach toward international law"]
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Defense Studies
"Defense Concepts Series", November 2005

[http://www.c4ads.org/files/CADS_pubs_XML_threat_model.pdf "XML Intrusion Prevention: A Comprehensive Data Model"]
Newton Howard and Sergey Kanareykin
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Defense Studies & Sarvega, Inc.
"Defense Concepts Series", November 2005

[http://www.c4ads.org/files/CADS_sensemaking.pdf "Sensemaking in Symbiotic Joint-Cognitive Systems"]
Bradley A. Singletary and Newton Howard
Computer-Human Interaction Conference 2005, Association for Computer Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI)

[http://www.c4ads.org/files/CADS_paper_IEEE_2005.pdf "Application of Deterrence Assessment Methodologies to Commercial Ferry Attack Scenario"]
Newton Howard
IEEE Homeland Security Conference, April 26, 2005

[http://www.c4ads.org/files/CADS_GJXDM_2005.pdf "Global Justice XML Data Model: current challenges and efforts to resolve them"]
Newton Howard and Sergey Kanareykin
"Law Enforcement Executive Forum" 5.6

[http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6515383106 "The FCC's Broadband Over Power Line Inquiry: Considering Radio-Frequency Interference Rules of the Road for the Third High-Speed Communications Wire"]
David Tobenkin and Newton Howard
"Virginia Journal of Law and Technology", Winter 2004

[http://www.c4ads.org/papers/nip_draft.pdf "Network-centric Information Policy"]
Newton Howard and Ammar Qusaibaty
Presented at the INFOS 2004 Conference Cairo, Egypt in March 2004

[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0972383476 "Toward a Unified theory of Cognitive Space"]
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Defense Studies/Institute for the Mathematics Complexity and Cognition, January 2002
ISBN 0972383476

[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0972383409 "The Calculus of Order and Disorder"]
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Defense Studies/Institute for the Mathematics Complexity and Cognition, January 2002
ISBN 0972383409

"Theory of Intention Awareness in Tactical Military Intelligence: Reducing Uncertainty by Understanding the Cognitive Architecture of Intentions"
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: 1stBooks Library, 2002
ISBN 1403376603

"The Complexity in Weapons Systems Design"
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: 1stBooks Library, 2002
ISBN 14033XXXX

"Human mind: the geometry of the impossible space"
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Defense Studies/Institute for the Mathematics Complexity and Cognition, January 2002
ISBN 0972383417

"Mathematics and the death of numbers"
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Defense Studies/Institute for the Mathematics Complexity and Cognition, 2002
ISBN 0972383425

"Understanding the Phenomena of Fratricide Book Project"
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: 1stBooks Library, 2002
ISBN 14033XXXX

"Promoting Intention Awareness in Decision Support Systems Book project"
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: 1stBooks Library, 2002
ISBN 14033XXXX

[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0972383433 "Infinity and the limit of number theory"]
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Defense Studies/Institute for the Mathematics Complexity and Cognition, January 1999
ISBN 0972383433

[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0972383492 "The logic of uncertainty and situational understanding"]
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Defense Studies/Institute for the Mathematics Complexity and Cognition, January 1999
ISBN 0972383492

[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0972383484 "Multidimensional Time: Understanding combinatorial manifolds"]
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Defense Studies/Institute for the Mathematics Complexity and Cognition, January 1999
ISBN 0972383484

[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=097238345X "The Topology of intention"]
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Defense Studies/Institute for the Mathematics Complexity and Cognition, January 1997
ISBN 097238345X

[http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0972383468 "Awareness and the science of human experience"]
Newton Howard
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Defense Studies/Institute for the Mathematics Complexity and Cognition, January 1997
ISBN 0972383468

"Ethnomethodology for requirement elicitation and analysis of military systems"
Newton Howard

"Intention awareness in command control communication and intelligence"
Newton Howard

[http://www.c4ads.org/papers/RAID_draft.pdf "BPL Interference for Remote Detection And Identification (work in progress)"]
Newton Howard and Sergey Kanareykin

"The American corporation: an inside look of the American government"
Newton Howard

"The physics of cognition"
Newton Howard