Newton Howard, PHD, HDR
Newton Howard is a Distinguished Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology New York, and a former professor of The Oxford University as well as a member of congregation.
Dr. Howard is the founder of C4ADS, launching it in 2000 as part a groundbreaking push to integrate information dominance with operational strategy, setting the stage for a new era of intelligence-driven warfare and transitioning it to an independent non-profit organization in 2003. Dr. Howard’s visionary expertise in cognitive science, AI, intelligence, and defense strategy has been instrumental in shaping C4ADS into an internationally recognized powerhouse in data-driven conflict analysis, security innovation, and intelligence research. His leadership laid the foundation for a new paradigm in global threat analysis, where technology, intelligence, and strategic foresight converge to address the world’s most pressing security challenges.
Dr Howard is also the founder of ni2o, Inc. — a start-up developing novel, AI-driven, brain-computer interfaces to treat a wide range of debilitating neurological disorders. ni2o’s eventual aim is to improve cognitive and athletic performance for all people affected by neurological diseases. Newton’s career spans academia, the U.S. military, and the private sector. As a prolific scientific author and inventor, he is highly skilled in moving research out of the lab and into military and commercial applications, including technology you use every day like wireless hotspots, Google Earth, and Google Translate.
Dr. Howard holds advanced degrees in Mathematics (Oxford), Cognitive Informatics (Sorbonne), Neurosurgery (Oxford), and a Doctorate of Medical Sciences (Sorbonne). He makes significant contributions to the fields of Quantum Biology in neuroscience, linguistics, and national defense, including the Physics of Cognition (a mathematical framework for modeling complex medical, economic and security equilibriums), Intention Awareness (a theory for predictive modeling of naturalistic systems), Mood State Indicators (an algorithm to model mental processes involved in human speech to predict emotional states), ADAMA (a method of autonomously identifying and contextually understanding metaphors in language), the Functional Code Unit (a method for translating neurological signaling to logical data structures) and most recently, the Brain Code (a multivariate analytical model designed to extract emergent properties of the brain’s neuronal system).
As a professor at Oxford MIT Georgetown, he created and directed several laboratories, such as the Computational Neurosciences Lab at Oxford and the Synthetic Intelligence Lab at MIT. He founded and sits on the Board of two nonprofits: the Howard Brain Sciences Foundation (which funds innovative research initiatives to improve our understanding of the human brain and advance the diagnosis and treatment of neurological conditions); and C4ADS, a global security group (which is dedicated to providing data-driven analysis and evidence-based reporting on global conflict and transnational security issues).
Professor Howard’s life mission is to investigate and combat brain disorders. Together, we will restore the human dignity lost by diseases and negative evolutionary processes.
