Distinguished Alumni > 2005 > Lawrence D. Stone

Lawrence D. Stone

• B.S., Mathematics, 1964, Antioch College
• M.S., Mathematics, 1966, Purdue University
• Ph.D., Mathematics, 1967, Purdue University

Dr. Larry Stone joined Metron, Inc. in 1986. He became Chief Operating Officer in 1990 and President and CEO in 2004. His technical work has included modeling the operational Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) effectiveness of nonacoustic sensors, developing tactical decision aids for ASW search and localization, and participating in a National Science Foundation project to apply search theory to oil exploration. He was the technical and project manager for the development of a multiple-target, nonlinear, correlator-tracker, NodeStar, designed for use in the Navy’s Integrated Underwater Surveillance System. He co-authored the book Bayesian Multiple Target Tracking, and continues to work on a number of tracking and discrimination systems for the Navy, Missile Defense Agency, and Defense Advance Research Projects Agency.

The Operations Research Society of America awarded its Lanchester Prize to Dr. Stone’s text, Theory of Optimal Search, as the best work in operations research published in English in 1975. He was codirector of the 1979 NATO Advance Research Institute o Search Theory and Applications in Faro, Portugal, and coeditor of the conference proceedings. He has published numerous papers in search theory, taught the subject at the Naval Postgraduate School, and has participated in many search operations. He has also published papers in probability theory and optimization.

In 1986, he produced the probability maps used by the Columbus America Discovery Group to locate the S.S. Central America, which sank in 1857, taking an estimated $400 million of gold coins and bars to the ocean bottom one and a half miles below. He rendered on-scene assistance to the U.S. Navy in the 1974 search for unexploded ordnance in the Suez Canal, and he participated in the development of the Coast guard’s computerized search and rescue planning program, CASP. During the 1968 search for the remains of the submarine Scorpion, Dr. Stone provided on-scene analysis assistance for six weeks near the Azores.

Career Highlights
2004	President and CEO, Metron, Inc.
1999	Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
1990	Chief Operating Officer, Metron, Inc.
1986	Vice President, Metron, Inc.
1975	Lanchester Prize, Operations Research Society of America
1974	Vice President, Daniel H. Wagner Associates
1967	Associate, Daniel H. Wagner Associates