User:Rhmccullough/Sandbox/bio

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