Dr. Hoskins received his B.S. in Biochemistry and Biophysics from the Oregon State University in 1979. He received a M.S. in Biochemistry from The Pennsylvania State University in 1982, and a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Southern California in December, 1983 and began working for the Boeing Company. He received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington in 1990, developing a model reference adaptive controller based upon the principle of Liapunov stability. He is currently Chief Scientist for Advanced Interactive Systems.