Dean's Seminar Series Welcomes Mark Mills
April 9, 2008
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The McCormick School of Engineering Dean's Seminar Series and the Center for Energy-Efficient Transportation welcome businessman Mark Mills, who will speak Tuesday, April 29 at 4:30 p.m. in the ITW classroom at the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center at Northwestern University.
Mills' lecture is titled, "Energy - From Oil Sands to Data Centers: Unlimited Supply and Infinite Demand."
Mills is the co-founder and chairman of the board of ICx Technologies Inc., a company that develops and sells new and emerging technologies for homeland security and force protection. He is also a co-founding partner in the tech venture fund Digital Power Capital, a Wexford Capital fund.
Mills has been published in publications like Forbes and The New York Times, and he is the co-author of The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy.
Mills has served as a staff consultant to the White House Science Office, several federal research laboratories, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the U.S. Department of Energy. He was an experimental physicist and development engineer in integrated circuits during the 1970s and holds patents in fiber optics and defense and solid-state devices. He has a degree in physics from Queen's University, Canada.
