This document contains biographical information for the STAIF 2007 High-Frequency Gravitational Wave communications presenters: Dr. Robert Baker, Jr., Colby Harper, and Gary Stephenson. Together, they have outlined a proposal containing a complete scientific and business model for "The Value Estimation of an HFGW Frequency Time Standard for Telecommunications Network Optimization". (Click here for their biographies in PDF format)

Colby Harper graduated from the University of Washington with a BA with College Honors in Economics in 1993, and from 1996 to 1997 performed graduate studies University of Washington Graduate School of Business Administration. In 1993 he was the recipient of the Certificate in International Economics from the University of Washington. Between 1985 and 1995 Mr. Harper was in contract software development and network design and administration for Westinghouse Corporation, Digital Communications Associates, and Energy Northwest. In 1995 he served in the National Telecommunications and Information (NTIA) branch of the United States Department of Commerce and was a contributor to the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Since then Mr. Harper has also served at Inteliant Corporation and Washington Mutual.

Gary Stephenson received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Montana State University in 1983. He has worked as a Systems Engineer at Hughes Aircraft Company, ITT, and is presently with the Boeing Company. Starting in 1989 he has also been the President of Seculine Consulting, where he specializes in the study of general relativity topics including gravitational waves.

Dr. Robert Baker Jr., was born in Los Angeles on September 1, 1930. He has been married to his wife Bonnie since 1964 and has three grown children. Baker earned a bachelor's degree in Physics at UCLA with highest honors (summa cum laude – first in his class) was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, earned a master's degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Engineering at UCLA-- the Ph.D. degree with a specialization in aerospace was, according to UCLA officials, the first of its kind to be granted in the United States. Dr. Baker was on the faculty of the Department of Astronomy at UCLA from 1959 to 1963 and the Department of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA from 1963 to 1971 as a Lecturer and Assistant Professor. During that time he was a Lecturer at the United States Air Force Academy. While on a two-year tour of active duty in the Air Force he worked on a variety of classified aerospace projects. He was the head of the Lockheed’s Astrodynamics Research Center in Bel Air, California and in 1964 joined Computer Sciences Corporation as the Associate Manager for Mathematical Analysis. In 1980 he was elected President of West Coast University, an accredited university for the adult learner now operating under the auspices of American Career College in Los Angeles. After retiring from West Coast University in 1997 as President and Professor of Engineering, Dr. Baker became the Senior Consultant for Transportation Sciences Corporation and GRAVWAVE© LLC. He won the UCLA Physics Prize, was recipient of the Dirk Brouwer Award for outstanding contributions in astrodynamics and orbital mechanics, and was a recipient of the Outstanding Man of the Year Junior Chamber of Commerce award in 1965 presented to him by Ronald Reagan. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was national chairman of the Astrodynamics Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) from 1961 to 1964, was Editor of the Journal of the Astronautical Sciences from 1963 to 1975, was appointed by William Bennett to the National Advisory Committee on Accreditation and Institutional Eligibility of the Department of Education from 1987 to 1989, was appointed to the Academic Review Committee on Gravitational Research with the U. S. Army from 2001 to 2003, Head of Committee on High-Frequency Gravitational Waves of the Oakland Institute for Gravitational Wave Research 2002-, Vice Chairperson of the first International HFGW Conference at the MITRE Corporation in 2003, Advisory Professor Chongqing University, China 2004, and was the author of several textbooks and over one hundred company reports, symposium papers, and journal articles in the area of astrodynamics, celestial mechanics, and High-Frequency Gravitational Waves (HFGWs) including An Introduction to Astrodynamics (1960) with Maud W. Makemson and Astrodynamics: Applications and Advanced Topics (1969). Dr. Baker has been Project Manager on three prototype development, fabrication, and test projects under contract to the U. S. Navy and Principal Investigator on several NASA and USAF projects while head of Lockheed’s Astrodynamic Research Center. As President of West Coast University Dr. Baker coordinated the activities of six groups of scientists and engineers spread throughout Southern California. Dr. Baker has been interested in the dynamics of gravitational fields since the 1950’s and gravitational-wave research since the early 1960’s. He holds five patents and 16 pending patents in the United States, Europe, Russia, and China in the area of gravitational-wave generation and detection in the laboratory.