Appendum to Resume:
1962
I dissected frogs and recorded their impulse responses on a smoke drum roll, which (I believe) earned me first place in a local science fair.
1963
For my high school science fair, I designed a 10-input associative memory with fuse-links. Unfortunately, I only received an honorable mention.
1964–1965: Early Work with Operation Paperclip Scientists and Nanosecond Systems
- My father worked at AVCO Lycoming, which had brought in German V2 rocket scientists through Operation Paperclip, including individuals who had collaborated with Wernher von Braun. I spent a summer at AVCO, writing FORTRAN code to evaluate bi-cubic spline models of turbine blades under the supervision of Dr. Wxxx and others from Ottenstein.
- Around the same time, I worked at Nanosecond Systems—founded by Dr. David L. Hill—where I built printed circuit boards for nuclear cyclotron instrumentation. I also assembled custom photomultiplier tube electronics for accelerator experiments from provided schematics.
1965–1970: Collaboration with Dr. David L. Hill
- I recently saw the film Oppenheimer and was startled to realize that Dr. David L. Hill, who appears in the movie testifying before Congress, was my employer from 1965 to 1970.
- I traveled with Dr. Hill in his Cessna to Stony Brook, Long Island, to install a Scanning and Measuring Projector (SMP) I had built as an I/O device for the IBM 7094 computer. I also designed a specialized printing calculator for him.
1966: Scanning and Measuring Projector at Brookhaven
- I supervised the construction of the SMP and helped integrate it with the IBM 7094 at Stony Brook/Brookhaven on Long Island. The SMP was later used in ground-breaking particle physics research—likely contributing to the 1970 neutrino discovery—by digitizing bubble chamber photos and allowing precise analysis of particle trajectories and short-lived resonances.
1965: MIT Physics and PANIC
- I participated in a physics course developed by Richard Feynman (called PANIC). Feynman taught both the first and last lectures of the semester.
- My teaching assistant was Martin Deutsch, a physicist who had escaped Eastern Europe to work at Los Alamos in 1943, contributing to neutron physics and critical mass calculations for the Manhattan Project. He was renowned for his teaching prowess and made a profound impact on my understanding of physics.
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Delivered 20 Computek 100 intelligent terminals at Langley. These were later used in project Shamrock, government spying on US citizens.
I was reaised by scientist, but turned out to be a curious engineer.
Wonder kid Werner Heisenberg
Dr Whetstone.
explored use of 3D splines in modeling ...
Bohr of Rutherford:
always a charmeing blend of Boy, Man, and Genius
No end of progress can be had when there is no concern for credit.
Mit
Minsky/Dertouzos/...
Bidirectional K-lines.
Feynman
Co-Taught Sophmore Physics PANIC at MIT
Lettvin/
Konorsky grandmother cells
Troxel/Lee/TX-0,PDP-1
Avco:
German V2 scientists resettled
Klein, Ottenstot, ...
Nanosecond System
Dr David Hill, worked under Oppenheimer
Assembly tech: assembled and tested SMP (Scanning and Measurement Projecter)
Installed in Stonnybrook LI, used to discover neutrino statistics ??
Computek Intelligent terminal
Delivered 20 into faraday cage in CIA early 1970s
learned in 200x's of project Shamrock
Raytheon
Diagonstics of PTS-100
Architected IBM S1 compat. CPU
Prime;
MicoMainframe -- MMU for 68020.
Bitmap Graphics engine, microcode.
BBN Darpa contracts
will Crowther
Phil Carvey
Butterfly II initial architecture.
NOTES I gave to ChatGPT-o1:
rewrite the following contacts with notables I've had during my early life:
1962 Disected frogs and graphed its impulse response on a smoke role. First Place in Science Fair (I think)
1963 Designed a 10 input associative memory with fuse-links for High School Science Fair. Honerable mention ;(
1965 Worked a German V2 rocket scientists brought to AVCO Lycoming by peration Paper Clip: V2 Scientists. VonBraun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVZzClQaB3M Rocketry, Aerodynamics, Piedmont, Ottenstein, My dad worked at AVCO and got me a summer job there. I wrote Fortran code to evaluate bi-cubic spline modeling of turbine blades. Dr Wxxx, Ottenstot.
I saw Oppenheimer last week, finally. Unclear why it took so long. I was startled by it — I worked for one of the characters in it — Dr David L. Hill. He testified to congress in the movie, and I worked for him from 1965 to 1970. Flew in his Cessna to Stony Brook in Long Island to install a Scanning and Measuring Protector I built as an I/O device on a 7094. I also designed a printing calculator for him.
Nanosecond Systems was founded by Dr David L Hill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Hill Dr David L Hill, Rabinowich and Simpson: .There is no secrecy in the atomic bomb and no defense against it; https://books.google.com/books?id=tEsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=david+hill+metallurgical+laboratory&source=bl&ots=KkR4cAURua&sig=D28IoRBWTmlVtgJnv6DBNaiylaw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi09q_EhfXUAhXDPCYKHepbD6kQ6AEIPzAE#v=onepage&q=david%20hill%20metallurgical%20laboratory&f=false
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0735148.pdf