Born 1938 in Hamburg Germany.
Education: German Public school, 10 years, graduation. Industrial Electrician apprentice, 3.5 years, graduation as “Industrial Electrician.” Study at Ingenieurschule Hamburg, Germany, 3.5 years, graduation as “Electrical Engineer.” Non-credit courses in Computer Science and Programming, 3 years, Stanford University. Training to service large IBM computer centers, 6 months.
Sales Engineer: 1 year at SIEMENS in Hamburg Germany. Design and sell very large power distribution systems.
Research Engineer: 6 months, basic research and design of medical X Ray machines.
Application Engineer: 1.5 years at ALLEN BRADLEY in Canada. Design customized motor control systems.
Electronic Design Engineer: Nov. 64 to March 66 at ROHR CORP. in San Diego. Design and develop custom computer for Numerical Control Machine tools. Design 3 computers for aerospace manufacturing and robotics.
Engineering Manager: May 66 to May 69 at Stanford University computer center. Leading a hardware group to design a large computer center for medical research. Define interfaces to large IBM computer. Design a communication network for many timeshare users using direct lines and modems. Design custom terminals for transmission of bio-medical research data. Design automated research labs and automated medical diagnostic systems. Programming in PL-1 and BASIC languages.
Chief Engineer: Sept. 69 to Aug. 71 at CONTROLS AND INSTRUMENTS in Munich, Germany. Manage a small electronic company (8 Engineers and 30 Production staff.) Design small computer systems: printers, plotters, data communications, text processors.
Senior Design Engineer: Oct. 71 to Feb. 72 at AMPEX in Los Angeles. Design a universal magnetic tape controller system.
Engineering Manager: July 72 to Feb. 75 at CALCOMP in Los Angeles. Manage a small company division (5 Engineers and production staff.) Pioneering development of first large semiconductor memory systems for computers. Design add-on memory systems for small, medium, and large computer systems.
Invent self-learning networks and define a mathematical theory of “learning” in 1974. First application for patent 4,366,551 filed June 16, 1975. Patent granted Dec. 28, 1982. First publication, “Here comes the brain-like self-learning no-programming computer of the future,” The First West Coast Computer Faire 1977, Faire, Box 1597, Palo Alto, CA 94302.
Project Engineer: Feb. 75 to Nov. 75 at KERONIX in Los Angeles. Design core memory systems for computer.
Project Engineer: Nov. 75 to Aug. 77 at INTEL in Sunnyvale California. Design very large memory systems for IBM 370 type computers using ECL logic. Perform technical studies for large memory applications.
Independent Research: Aug. 77 to June 78. Research in machine learning and Artificial Intelligence. Write a book about self-learning networks. Write several publications about “learning” and “information” theories.
Field Service Engineer: at ITEL in Palo Alto, California. Receive formal training for servicing large IBM computer centers. Service and repair large computer centers in downtown San Francisco. Continue private research in “learning” theories and Artificial Intelligence.
Group Leader: Oct. 79 to June 83 at TELEDYNE in Los Angeles. Logic and systems design for airborne military computers. Design Electronic Radar Warfare systems for surveillance airplanes.
Become an independent Engineering Consultant: June 1983.
Found own company and continue research and development of self-learning brain-like machines.
Inventions and patents including: Patent 4,366,551 - Associative search method (i. e. the basic tree network algorithm); Patent 4,992,868 - True Information Television and Vision System; Patent 5,113,505 - Pyramidal Addressing Method; Patent 5,576,985 - Content Addressable Read Only Memory (CAROM); Patent 5,917,948 - Image Compression with Serial Tree Networks.
Publish more than 35 papers at international conferences (see Library of downloadable Publications)
Develop data compression for modems which is now implemented world-wide as V.42bis.
Design and build a prototype for data compression in modems in 1985.
Design and build a prototype for a self-learning brain-like Autosopher in 1987.
SBIR research for the U. S. NAVY in 1996: Secure and compressed network communications.
SBIR research for the U. S. ARMY in 1997: Autosopher Decision Aid Box (Autosopher).
Built a Software Demonstration System for Autosophy Internet Television in 2000.
Outside
paid Consultant projects:
Military
mission planning systems for synthetic aperture radar surveillance airplanes.
Electro-optic PLZT ceramics for a High Definition Television monitor.
An intelligent power supply testing system for APPLE computers.