- period:
company, location (topic).
- 1963:
Thiokol, via CEIR, Oakland. (Calculations of Rocket Fuel combustion).
- 1967:
McGrawhill-Shepards, Colorado Springs CO (Transition from linotype shuffling to databases)
- 1968-1969:
Wells-Fargo Bank, San Francisco CA (Evaluate databases and year 2000 issue for trust accounts).
- 1970-1974:
Systems Control Inc, Palo Alto CA (Secure databases).
- 1971 (May):
Wells-Fargo Bank, Computers for Taxation seminar at Hoogewerf & Cie, Luxembourg.
- 1971-1986:
National Center for Health Services Research, DHHS
HRA-NCHSR, Rockville, MD. (Hospital and Disease Information Systems),
pro bono.
- 1974:
Information Systems, a division of American Hospital Supply Corporation (design of replacement QTAM system).
- 1974-1975 :
Science Applications Inc. (tactical support systems review).
- 1974-1977:
Kaiser-Permanente Health Plan (Resource requirements estimation for long-term contraceptive studies).
- 1975:
Policy Research Inc. (Assessment of relevant database technology to healthcare).
- 1975-1991:
Division of Immunology, Stanford School of Medicine (ARAMIS: American Rheumatism
Association Medical Information System).
- 1975-1978:
Teknekron, Berkeley CA (Database systems for Economic Planning).
- 1976-1977:
American Express Processing Center, Plantation FL (Database Design Methods).
- 1976-1991:
United Nations Development Programme (Computer systems and
databases for economic planning in India and the People's Republic of China).
- 1976-present:
Stanford Computer Forum (Academic-Industry contact with TRW, EGandG Idaho, LM Ericsson, Philips
Research Laboratories, Visicorp, SOHIO, BP, Siemens, Hitachi, Sony, Ricoh, Bull, SAP, NEC, and others).
- 1977-1990:
National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda MD (Cancer studies proposal review and Chairman,
Committee for the Evaluation of Proposals for the Statistical Analysis and Quality Control
Center for the Centralized Cancer Patient Data System), pro bono.
- 1977-1982:
Un. of Southern California, Center for Health Services Research,
Los Angeles CA (Hospital computer systems studies).
- 1978-1979:
National Academy of Science, Washington DC (Panel on Information Systems for Laboratory
Animal Medicine), pro bono.
- 1979:
Sheppards-McGraw-Hill, Colorado Springs CO (Design of a new citation processing system for
legal indexing).
- 1979-1983:
National Academy of Science, Washington DC (Member of Panel on the
Conduct of Basic Research in Computer Science and its Interaction with Applied
Research and Development), pro bono.
- 1979-1983:
National Library of Medicine, DHHS-NIH-NLM Bethesda MD (Review of
Proposals in their Science Program), pro bono.
- 1979-1981:
WIVAC, Palo Alto CA (Databases for design automation).
- 1980-1982:
SRI-International, Croydon England
(1. Database Systems for European Banks;
2. Research Policy Evaluation for the Bundesministerium fur
Forschung und Technologie, FRG).
- 1980-1981:
Center for Health Services Research, USC, Los Angeles CA
(Analysis and synthesis of Hospital Information Systems).
- 1981:
Symantec, Sunnyvale CA (Semantic Net Database Design and Review).
- 1981:
BARRA, Orinda CA (Database Design for beta-Computations).
- 1981:
Review Board, US Navy Computer Command and Control Systems, 6.2 programs.
(Advanced development), NavCom, Washington DC.
- March 1982:
Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto CA (Review of database research program plans).
- 1982-1988:
Vice President, Chairman of the Board (since 1985), Time Oriented Databases Inc., Menlo Park CA
- 1982-1984:
Contra Costa County Health Services, Martinez CA (Reconfiguration of Health Services Computing
systems).
- 1982-1985:
National Academy of Science, Washington DC (Member of Committee on
Data Management and Computation, Space Sciences Board), pro bono.
- 1982-1984:
Visicorp, San Jose CA (Design of a database architecture for
personal systems).
- 1983:
IBM Research, San Jose CA (Design Algorithms for Database Allocation on a
closely-coupled network;
Design of a Support Database for Software Maintenance).
- 1983:
TERADYNE, Boston MA (Evaluation of a CAD Design Support Database System of CADTEC, San Leandro CA).
- 1983:
Software Connections, Sunnyvale CA (Design review for distributed database
system).
- 1984:
Apple, San Jose CA (Variable-length Record Structure for Macintosh Database).
- 1983:
ESVEL, San Jose CA (Review directions for advanced database systems).
- 1984:
VisiCorp, Sunnyvale CA (Design of Database System for Visi-On Windows system).
- 1984,1985:
San Mateo County College District, San Mateo CA (Database system
acquisition review).
- 1984,1985, 1986:
Systems Applications Inc. and Naval Ocean Systems Center, San
Diego CA (Presentation of database design research results).
- 1982-1986:
Advanced Decision Systems (formerly AI&DS), Mountain View CA
(Review of knowledge-based data management).
- 1984-1986:
Institute for Defense Analysis, Alexandria VA (Chair, Task Force to
Recommend Technology Database for ADA Extension).
- 1984-1988:
Information Analysis Corporation, Mountain View CA (Member Advisory
Committee for a Small Business Adminstration grant on MEDLOG, a clinical
microcomputer DBMS).
- 1984-1986:
Apple Computers, and Think Technologies, Cupertino CA (Evaluation of
database system approaches for microcomputers).
- 1985-1987:
Universal Energy Systems, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton OH
(Development of Database Interfaces for Engineering Information Systems).
- 1985:
IBM World Trade, Paris, France (Course for IBM Africa Institute,
Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast).
- 1986-1988:
Arthur D. Little, Washington DC (Review memory storage design and develop compression for US
Postal Service ZIP+4 codes for OCR sorting).
- 1986-1988:
Sloan School of Management, MIT, Cambridge MA (Knowledge-based
Integrated Information Systems Engineering project for USAF).
- 1987:
Gupta Technologies, Menlo Park CA (Assessment of new database
technology).
- 1988:
Center for Education Statistics, Nat. Academy of Sciences and Dept.
of Education, Washington DC (A national database for education
assessment), pro bono.
- 1988:
General Dynamics, Convair Division, San Diego CA (Evaluation of data
management systems for structural design and manufacturing).
- 1988-1990:
Tri-Services Engineering Information Systems, Wright-Patterson AFB,
Dayton OH (Technical Group to monitor Engineering Information Systems
(VHSIC EIS) contract), pro bono.
- 1988-1991:
Foerster and Morrison, San Francisco CA (Evaluation of shared
database support technology, expert witness).
- 1987-1988:
The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, Palo Alto CA (Advisor on
systems to manage Foster Children support programs. Public Service).
- 1990:
Bechtel Corporation, Norwalk, CA (Review of object-oriented design
support system).
- 1990:
Ashton-Tate, Torrance CA (Assessment of new PC DBMS).
- 1990-1991:
Object Design, Palo Alto CA (Product design review).
Due to my assignment to ARPA, in August 1991, I discontinued all of my reimbursed consulting activities for the period to Oct.1994.
- 1992-1994:
National Science Foundation, CISE (Formulation of NSF-ARPA-NASA Digital Library Program).
- 1993-1994:
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaitherburg MD (Program Formulation and Review).
- 1994-2003:
Glaxo-Smith-Kline, formerly Smith-Kline-Beecham,
London, England and Philadelphia PA (Data management for genomic drug
research and validation. Software for decision support. Thesauri).
- 1994:
Health Information Resources Management Division, Veterans
Administration, Silver Spring MD (Presentation of scalable system
technology).
- 1994:
Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto CA (Assessment of Technmology
Transfer Approach).
- 1995-1999
National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols
(NIIIP) (Member, Technical Advisory Board).
- 1995-1996, 2001
Scientific Advisory Board, U.S. Air Force,
`AF 2025'(
Visiting Member).
- 1995-2005:
Persistence Corporation, Belmont CA (Technical Advisory Board,
object generation from relational databases).
- 1995-1997:
ISX Corporation, Westlake Village CA (Mediation Technology).
- 1995:
BCL Computers, Sunnyvale CA (Text analysis proposal review).
- 1995:
Institute for Defense Analysis, Alexandria VA. (Advanced Distributed Simulation, Technical Advisory Board).
- 1995-1996:
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Library, Palo Alto CA (Moving to digital acquisition and distribution).
- 1995-1998:
Callidus Consulting, Menlo Park CA (Information systems design).
- 1996-2001:
Faculty participant, Stanford Computer Industry Study (Sloan Foundation) Stanford Graduate School of Business (Analysis of shift in software efforts).
- 1997-1999:
Frontline Solutions, Idaho Falls ID (RFP analysis for WPAFB).
- 1997-2001:
Bohda (formerly Ibrain), Palo Alto CA (Technical Advisory Board, mediation technology).
- 1998-2004:
Center voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam Holland
(member, Technical Advisory Board) pro bono.
- 1998:
IRS enforcement office, Chicago IL (banking software technology).
- 1998-2000:
PPM, Palo Alto (Information dissemination).
- 1998, 2001:
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Database Laboratory assessment; Review of CS Department).
- 1998:
OMM, San Francisco (Expert witness on CAD technology).
- 1998-1999:
McKesson Corp., San Francisco (SW technology for drug
warehousing and distribution; year 2000 issues).
- 1998-2001:
PatternRx, Palo Alto CA (Healthcare mediation technology).
- 1999, 2003:
NSF, Arlington VA (Research proposals review), pro bono.
- 1999:
NCGIA, Buffalo NY (Preparation of research directions plan) pro bono.
- 1999:
Strategic Research Foundation, Stockholm Sweden (Review of
mediation project proposal).
- 1999:
Univ.of Missouri, Columbia MO (Archiving research plan for NSF).
- 1999 - 2000:
PanDao,
San Franciscco CA (Internet Personal Business Architecture).
- 2000-2001:
ITT, Colorado Springs, CO, as contractor for the
Air Force Rome Laboratory, Rome NY (Joint Battle Space technologies).
- 2000-present:
Department of Informatics,
Technical University Munich (TUM), Member of the Computer Science
Advisory Board
(Beirat), pro bono.
- 2000-2001:
Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, Washington DC (Strategies for Database and application migration), pro bono.
- 2000-2004:
StreamLogic Inc., Los Altos Hills, CA; formerly
Littera Inc. (Technical advice on data feed management technology).
- 2001-2005:
Steven Hoffer, Esq., San Diego CA (Expert
analyses on E-trade system).
- 2001-2005:
DBwizards, San Francisco CA (Database technology for the Internet).
- 2001-2002:
QPSX, Melbourne Australia (Assessment of patents in business modeling of databases).
- 2001-2004:
VivoMind Intelligence Inc., Los Altos CA (Technical advice on Analog Concept Discovery and Mining ).
- 2002:
KK Foundation, ITlift project, Skovde Sweden (Review of
new PhD programs in Informatics).
- 2002:
TetriDyn Inc., Idaho Falls ID (BoD Mediator Company).
- 2002-current
MITRE, Corporation, Bedford MA; for the Internal Revenue Service (Valuation of Intelectual Property transferred
internationally as part of offshoring.)
Due to the assignment reporting to the U.S. Treasury, I discontinued all of my reimbursed consulting activities
from that point onwards.
- 2002-2006:
Transact-in-Memory, Palo Alto CA (High Performance
Databases).
- 2002-2003:
Trigon, Richmond VA (Analysis of health care information
and reimbursement systems).
- 2003-2004:
National Research Council: Review of the FBI Trilogy Program (Software engineering and data analysis methods), pro bono.
- 2005-2006:
National Research Council: Use of Information Technology to Enhance Disaster management, pro bono.