Duncan T. Moore was president of the Optical Society of America in 1996 and was awarded the society's Edwin H. Land Medal in 2009. Moore is the Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, as well as Professor of Business Administration in the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, and the Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship, all at the University of Rochester. From 2002 until 2004, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Infotonics Technology Center Inc., an industry, academia, and government partnership to foster cutting-edge research, prototyping of new technology, and economic development in Upstate New York, with an operating budget of $15 million and a capital budget of $25 million in 2004.