born:
- Oct/28/1936 Ft. Benning, GA
travel (Army brat)
- 1936-1954 all 48 CONUS states, Canada, Mexico, England, France, Germany, ...
- 1951-1966 (with gaps) studied Spanish, German, French
college:
- 1960 SBEE MIT
- 1960 SMEE MIT
Eta Kappa Nu
Tau Beta Pi
Sigma Xi
- 1967 PhDEE Polytechnic University (formerly Brooklyn Poly)
work:
- 1956-1958 part time General Electric coop. student
- 1958-1959 part time MIT graduate teaching assistant
- 1960-1984 AT&T Bell Labs at Murray Hill NJ, Whippany NJ, Naperville IL
- (1961 U.S. Army active duty)
- 1984-1990 AT&T Network Systems at Sunnyvale CA
professional societies:
- AAAI
- IEEE
work assignments at Bell Labs & Network Systems
- 1960-1965 electonic circuit design for Telstar satellite, high speed PCM system
3 joint patents
- 1965-1968 supervisor of pattern recognition group
- 1968-1975 mathematical analysis of military weapons system performance, taught Information Theory
- 1975-1984 designed language for switching system lab tests, implemented mini CHILL compiler
awarded Senior Member of Technical Staff
- 1984-1990 taught UNIX operating system & related courses, designed customer service software, took AI courses
publications:
- 1960, "Network Models for Multi-cavity Klystron", SMEE thesis, MIT
- 1967, "Ternary Codes for Regenerative Digital Transmission Systems", PhDEE thesis, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
- 1968, "The Binary Regenerative Channel", Bell System Technical Journal
- 1968-1975, several papers classified Top Secret
- 1983, "mini CHILL compiler", Bell Labs report
- 1997, "Knowledge Explorer", The Icon Newsletter, No. 52, p. 6
"retirement"
- 1996-2008 designed mKR language & implemented mKE (with mKR compiler)
- 2002-2008 member of RDF, OWL email groups