“I was in the very first group of researchers that started looking at drones,” said Cummings. “The human interaction, policy issues, design issues—I was way out in front of the drone community in terms of research. And because I had all this military experience, I understood the domain and how to talk the talk, and my research program took off very quickly.” - http://www.pratt.duke.edu/node/4599 http://www.pratt.duke.edu/node/4599