Abstract: Dr. Salvo and his team developed a series of large-scale internet-based sensing arrays to manage andoversee business systems and deliver a portfolio of information-based services. Some of their commercial businessreleases include complex decision platforms (e.g. GE Veriwise? GE RailwiseTM, Global Vendor ManagedInventory, Ener.GE?, and E-Materials Management) that deliver near real-time customer value through systemtransparency and knowledge-based computational algorithms. Pervasive networked sensors systems combinedwith near-real time collaboration can deliver time-critical, high fidelity data to enable information analysis acrosstraditional business process boundaries. Total supply chain, digital manufacturing, energy management andfinancial services can be integrated to create a virtual enterprise environment that encourages discovery andprocess improvement on a global basis. Electronic RFID tagging and distributed knowledge networks extend thereach of these systems with anywhere/anytime access to mission critical information. Crowdsourcing and cloudcomputing platforms promise to further democratize the flow of information, computation and ideas. Commercialbusiness implementations of this work are currently active in Asia, Europe as well as North and South Americawhere they have tracked over 1 trillion dollars' worth of consumer product inventory and industrial assets. In thelaboratory, Dr. Salvo and his team explore the potential of associative memory structures built in state-of-the-arthybrid software/hardware parallel compute engines. Dr. Salvo received his bachelor degree from Harvard and hismaster and Ph.D. degrees from Yale.