...if you want to know a bit about my professional history (I have forty-two years of experience ranging from electronic warfare through virtual reality, robotics, sensor networks,and wearable computing in such major research labs as Xerox PARC, Interval Research, AT&T Labs, and Sun Labs - then look at my resume... and read this list of my patents - which span amorphous silicon color scanner design, embedded digital information in images, affective computing in robotics, swarm intelligence in sensor networks, novel user interface designs, video search, and more. A project that I worked on that was way fun and cool - resulting in my filing six patent applications over a two and a half year period - involved the Sun SPOT Sensor Network platform. A work that I am quite proud of is the Placeholder virtual reality project, where I did audio field recording and C programming. You can get a hint of my philosophy by reading this neo-enlightenment rant, which is the center-piece of the lost Milleniel Whole Earth Review pages, and by looking at some of my philosophical broadsides, and some of my recent haiku. I've lectured at Stanford University, the Royal College of Arts (London), the University of California, and numerous conferences, on subjects ranging from perception & psychophysics through virtual reality, new media, to strategy and tactics for research & development. At Sun Labs I was a member of the working group of the National Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems, sponsored by Battelle, the Foresight Institute, The Waite Family Foundation, and the U.S. government's national laboratories. At NASA I was a Senior Technology Strategist at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, putting together Space Act Agreements for collaboration between major technology companies and NASA - I did the strategic business development that lead to a major collaboration agreement between Sun Microsystems and NASA, covering supercomputing, Open Source development, and wireless sensor networks. At Liquid Robotics I put a remotely controlled Canon camera on an ocean going wave and solar powered robot, and implemented remote satelite communication and onboard image processing using embedded Linux. I worked for Texas Instruments, in group focusing on the Android operating system that supported the development of the Amazon Kindles and Google Glass. In 2014 I joined the San Francisco based startup Skully Helmets as Director of Software... and was employee Number Six as we did a record breaking crowd sourcing campaign for the world's first augmented reality motocyce helmet. I worked as a Senior Software Architect for BSquare; who have embedded me at the Toyota Partner Robot group (working on augmented reality for the blind) and subsequently at the Toyota Resaerch Institute (working on conversational AI). Following that I spent a year at SyncThink, developing VR for concussion patients, and am now Seniot Staff Engineer at Glynt.AI, replacing Mechanical Turks with AI software in the cloud. I like inventing things. Since 1993 I have been exploring playing and recording Tibetan bowls - I've put together a CD of these recordings titled Kelp Scum. I live with my wife Brenda Laurel at our house Locus Voci in a forest high in the Santa Cruz mountains above the Silicon Valley region of the San Francisco bay area - a place of adventure, where life is never dull.