Board of Visitors

Dr. Carl J. Anderson received his B.S. in physics from the University of Missouri in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University Wisconsin–Madison in 1979. A lifelong employee of IBM Corporation, Carl is now at IBM in Austin, TX and in 2000 became an IBM Fellow.

Tom’s ties to the University of Wisconsin-Madison are many and varied. He received a BS-AMEP degree in 1977 (Phi Beta Kappa), and an MS-EE degree in 1978. He was an Adjunct Professor in the ECE Department in 1982-3, introducing a new course in Applied Microelectronics. He has served as a member of the ECE Department’s Industry Advisory Committee. His father was Joe Dillinger, Professor in the Physics Department from 1946 until 1975. After many years at AMD, Tom joined Oracle Corporation working in the former SPARC division of Oracle acquisition Sun Microsystems.

Dr. Lloyd Hackel works in high power lasers and materials science. He is VP, Advanced Technologies of Curtiss-Wright’s Metal Improvement Company. This followed a 28-years at LLNL where he became head the Program for Laser Science and Technology directing development of high power lasers and applications. Lloyd received a BS degree in Applied Mathematics and Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1971 and from MIT a Masters of Science in 1973 and Doctor of Science in 1974.

Craig received his BS in Applied Mathematics, Engineering, and Physics (AMEP) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, his MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and his MBA from Duke University. Craig worked in aerospace, engineering consulting, and medical technology. He now consults to high technology companies.

Tom earned his Ph.D. with Chun Lin at University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1982. After nearly 28 years in petroleum exploration research at Shell Oil Co. in Houston involving the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of seismic data, Tom retired early to establishing the new Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Houston. He retired again back to Wisconsin in 2016, teaching introductory physics and astronomy part-time for one year at UW – Washington County before retiring for the final(?) time.

Dr. Rock Mackie, a professor emeritus of medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Mackie’s career has been focused on planning and delivery of radiation therapy to cancer patients. His group developed the 3-D treatment planning system that became the Philips Pinnacle treatment planning system, the most widely used radiation therapy treatment planning system in the world. His group was also the developer of tomotherapy, which is the marriage of a linac and a CT scanner.

Bill earned his B.S. in Physics and Astronomy at UW–Madison in 1975 and M.S. in Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University in 2008. He is a former U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer and has 40-years of experience in the defense and aerospace industries. In 2020, he retired from The Boeing Company where he was a Technical Director supporting the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Bill has since re-located to Madison and works part-time as an Independent Contractor for MDA.