George A. (Jay) Keyworth II, nuclear physicist and chairman of the Washington, D.C.-based industrial consulting firm, the Keyworth Company, has become director of research for the Hudson Institute for public policy research, Indianapolis, Ind. From 1981 to 1985, Keyworth was Science Adviser to President Reagan. He is currently a director of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and the Center for Excellence in Education in McLean, Va. He holds a Ph.D. from Duke University.

Robert A. Rouse, founder and director of the Center for Intelligent Computer Systems at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed assistant dean of the university’s School of Technology and Information Management. Rouse is also associate director of the university’s Center for the Study of Data Processing. Rouse earned a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from Northwestern University in 1968.

Kenneth Piddington, director-general of the New Zealand Department of Conservation, has been appointed the...

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