Ronald "Skip" Cole
Program Officer, Education and Training
Center/International
Distance Learning | Education | Information and Communication Technologies |
Training for Peace
Phone: (202) 429-4717
E-mail: rcole@usip.org
Ronald Cole joined USIP’s Professional Training program early in 2006 as an instructional
technologist. He helps deliver instructional content developed at the Institute to the world via
technology. Cole has extensive experience in the field of simulation, both in content and
technology. He has developed simulations of molecular dynamics, businesses and business
decision-making processes. He is a Sun-certified enterprise architect, programmer and developer.
Cole is also an Oracle-certified database associate. He was a nuclear reactor operator in the U.S.
Navy, has worked for a number of private-sector firms (including Arthur Andersen) and has teaching
experience.
He has a B.S. in biophysics from the University of Connecticut, a master’s in biophysics and
computational biology from the University of Illinois and a master’s in global management from the
University of Phoenix.
Publications:
- "Introducing the Open Simulation Platform," The Cornwallis Group XIII: Analysis in Support of Policy, 2008.
- "The Need to Play Together: The Case for an Open-Source Simulation for Interagency Coordination," The Cornwallis Group XII: Analysis for Multi-Agency Support, 2007.
- Crawford, Teresa and Cole, R. "Building Peace Through Information and Communications Technologies," Idealware , June 2007.
- "Modeling Opinion Flow in Humans Using Boids Algorithm & Social Network
Analysis,"
Gamasutra.com, September 26, 2006.
- Panchenko, A.R., Lutheyschulten, Z., Cole, R., and Wolynes, P.G. "The Foldon Universe," Journal of Molecular Biology, September 12, 1997.
