...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.