User:Ccfromdc/Carl Cornwell

Carl H. Cornwell is a software professional, composer, and multi-instrumentalist (piano, saxophones, clarinets, flutes) who has resided in Laurel, Prince George's County, MD since 1982. As a specialist in both system level software design and development, and low-level device communication his contributions to NASA's 1984 Solar Maximum Repair Mission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-41-C) was acknowledged through the NASA Manned Spaceflight Launch Honoree Program. His improvisational approach to software development contributed to advances in the testing of HDTV broadcast systems (1989-90), deployment of GPS-driven airborne surveying and mapping systems (1991-1993), and radiometric calibration of the Landsat-7 earth-observing satellite (1995-1997).

Born in 1950 in West Grove, Chester County, Pa to Prof. Henry G. Cornwell and Sophy H. Cornwell and raised in nearby Lincoln University, PA he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mathematics from Lincoln University in 1976 and a Master of Arts Degree in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1977.

Cornwell's influence on, and collaboration with, Brian Jackson and Gil Scott-Heron during the trio's co-residence at Lincoln University from 1967-1969 is largely undocumented, but - to the diligent historian - unmistakable.