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Peter W. Huber is a co-founder, and Chief Technology Advisor of ICx Technologies Inc. He is also co-founding partner in Digital Power Capital, and founding member of the Digital Power Group (Washington, D.C.) He is also a Senior Fellow of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and a partner of the Washington, D.C. law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel.

He has written about science, environment, technology, and the law, and is the author of over a dozen books including: The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic Books, January 2005), co-written with Mark Mills; Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists (Basic Books 2000); Law and Disorder in Cyberspace (Oxford Univ Press 1997); Judging Science, Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts (co-author) (MIT Press 1997); Federal Broadband Law (co-author) (Little Brown 1995); Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest (Free Press 1994); Galileo’s Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom (Basic Books, 1991); Liability: The Legal Revolution and its Consequences (Basic Books, 1988); and The Geodesic Network (U.S. Dept. of Justice 1987).

He is a regular columnist in Forbes, writes frequently for various national magazines and newspapers, and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including Face the Nation and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Huber clerked on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for then Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. He earned his law degree from Harvard University and a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Articles by Peter Huber

He has been published in various popular publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the New York Times, as well as numerous professional publications. He is co-author of The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic Books, 2005, paperback 2006). He has also testified before and briefed many state public service commissions, legislative groups, state legislators, and the U.S. Congress.

Before founding Digital Power Capital, Mark was a technology advisor for Banc of America Securities, and a co-author of the successful tech investment newsletter, the Huber-Mills Digital Power Report, published by Forbes, and by the Gilder Group. Earlier, Mark founded and ran an energy technology consulting business for 17 years. He served as a staff consultant to The White House Science Office (under President Reagan), a number of the Federal Research Laboratories, the (former) Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Mark was an experimental physicist and development engineer in the fields of integrated circuits during the early 1970s, the “Jurassic era” of microprocessors. He also worked in fiber optics, defense and solid-state devices, fields in which he holds several patents. Mark holds a degree in physics from Queen’s University, Canada, and is a member of numerous professional societies including the American Physical Society, and the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers.

Articles by Mark Mills