Other Stuff

1980's - While in college I volunteered for the Student Tutorial Elementary Program, which paired college students with low-performing youth from underprivileged neighborhood schools.  The one-on-one attention the child received twice a week for a semester made a demonstrable difference according...

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Two NASA videos (one from 1989)

This is me when I was young and good looking. A NASA video right around the time of Voyager's visit to Neptune. Back then, scientists got their spacecraft data from 8-track tapes and computer printouts. My group experimented with graphical displays on UNIX workstations which could visualize the data in real-time. I tried to graft that high-end capability to the measly IBM PC, which back then had...

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Six Weeks

Since I'm on a nostalgia roll here, let me tell you about the most interesting six weeks of my life.  First, some background:  In the early 1980's, I was a photographer for a children's sign language performing ensemble called "A Show Of Hands". The group toured Switzerland in 1985 and...

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My MIT Application

 My oldest grandson and I were going through some of these old inventions, most of which were packed in a box in the basement.  One item in that box was a copy of my application to the MIT Media Lab.  I was hoping to attend graduate school there in the early 1990's.I explained to him...

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I started my own business...

I left my 10-year career at NASA because I wanted to commercialize some of my patents, and in order to do that I had to learn how to run a business.The company I started was called E2 Solutions (E2 stood for "Extended Enterprise" - we were an Information Technology consulting firm which had visions...

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