Bill Foster

Bill Foster is the son of an "outside agitator" active in the early civil rights movement.  He received his PhD from Harvard in 1983 on the design and construction if the IMB detector, the first large water Cherenkov detector built for proton decay. During his career in high-energy physics he worked on the construction of the CDF tracking chamber, built high speed digital tracking triggers at CDF, designed calorimeters and integrated circuits for calorimeter readout at the SSC, was the project manager for the 8 GeV transfer line between the Booster and Main Injector, designed and managed the construction of the permanent magnets for the Recycler ring, led the successful development of low-cost superconducting magnets for the VLHC, and built high speed bunch-by-bunch digital beam dampers for Fermilab's Run II.  Before entering High- Energy physics, he was the founder and CEO of Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc. the world's largest manufacturer of stage lighting equipment.