Resume

My passion has long been describing how thought works, in simple mathematical models that show only the essence of the thought. My quest began in a graduate seminar on “true AI”, given by Marvin Minsky in 1970. I escaped the MIT AI lab in 1971, and have worked in industry for 35 years. I was a systems designer, and hardware and software architect on many complex systems. I designed six different CPU systems: a printing calculator at Nanosecond Systems; the world’s first intelligent terminal at Computek; a Common I/O Processor Engine and S1 Minicomputer, at Ratheon Data Systems. At Prime I designed a virtual memory system for a commodity CPU, and a graphics processor. I served as a technical contributor on the Butterfly II and Thoth shared memory multiprocessors at BBN, and helped build a virtual reality system for a torpedo for the Navy. I worked on the design of a multi- gigabit router at BBN and helped start Avici Systems, simulating three generations of scalable Terabit routers. In 2000, I and others from Avici sought VC funding for a startup.

  1. Resume of technical career (2 pages). (SPM update)
  2. Interview of Allen King by Adam Ford of the Singularity Institute, Dec. 2012 Melbourne. 30min.