Steve BrueckSteve Brueck is director of the Center for High Technology Materials, distinguished professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, and founding editor of the IEEE Journal of Special Topics in Quantum Electronics. As a researcher he has been awarded 35 patents. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a fellow of the Optical Society of America. In this talk he reviews his past research and talks about his current work on problems.