This is not a short, snappy, to-the-point resume.
It is a sort of history of most of the things I've worked on in my 43 year
career. Last update 1/13/02
As I sort-of think in outline form, that is the shape of this document.
There are a lot of projects described here. My contributions to them ranged
from my doing them to my merely making contributions to team efforts. I don't
want to carelessly skip over the contributions of all my coworkers.
A) General personal background.
C) Project Lightning. (or why I'm not scared of Ghz. stuff)
F) Early Computer Displays
G) Computer Peripherals
. 1) CMOS Display
. 2) Color Penetration Tube
. 3) Model T Graphic Display
. 4) Bufferred Teletype
. 5) Direct NTSC Color Synthesis Computer Display
. 6) Electrostatic Printer
. 7) Voice Recognition
. 8) Barscan Printer
. 9) Little Blue Box raster scan display
And then Bobby (the Boob) Sarnoff dropped RCA's
Computer Division
H) CIS (Community Information System) 2-Way Cable TV system.
I) Electronic TV Tuners
J) ChanneLock TV Tuner System
K) VideoDisc Control System(s)
L) Interactive VideoDisc
M) DVI (Digital Video Interactive) = Compressed Video from CD ROM
Mx) MAGIC Force-sensing touch input.
N) Cole Patent Litigation
O) ICU "I See You" Compressed Still Picture transmission +
computer graphics
And then, Thornton (May he continue to rot in hell)
Bradshaw sold out RCA.
P) Deinterlacing (Progressive Scan from TV signals)
Q) Digital TV Test Patterns
R) User Interface for TVs
S) HRV Workstation (HDTV Workstation)
T) Miscellaneous Unspeakable Stuff
U) Virtual Reality Game System
V) Digital Video Compression (ATRC Consortium)
W) Digital Video Compression (ATSC Consortium)
X) Digital Cinema
. 1) RealImage/Technicolor
. 2) Linux Cluster Computing
. 3) Second System(s)
. 4) Tertiary Approach
Y) DVL Digital Video Lab - Digitization and Processing of military stuff
Z) Digital Set-Top Box application
And now I am available!