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Education

University of California at Irvine


• Fall ‘74 - Spring ‘78      BA, Math
• Fall ‘79 - Fall ‘81           MS, Math
• Winter ‘82 - Fall ‘85     Graduate studies in Math and Cognitive Science


California State University at Bakersfield


• Winter ‘89, Spring ‘89   Computer Architecture course sequence


Claremont Graduate School


• Fall ‘91 - Fall ‘92            Graduate studies in Mathematics
   

           Stanford University (Free online course)

• Fall 2011                         Machine Learning  (CS 229a)

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Honors & Fellowships

Physical Science Fellowship (to study Algebraic Curves), 1977
 

Upon Graduation from UC Irvine, 6/78

• Outstanding Senior in Mathematics
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Magna Cum Laude

Recent  

Summer 2009:   Levan Scholar Grant for Mathematics as Art

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Work Experience

1/89 - Present  

Professor of Mathematics  Bakersfield College;
served as Department Chair during '95-'96 academic year;
In addition to teaching - software development using
Visual Basic, Visual C++,  Visual C#, and most recently,  Python

1/87 - 3/88

Senior Software Engineer  DEST Corp., Milpitas, CA;
image processing applications in C and assembly language

8/82 - 6/86

Senior Programmer  UC Irvine Medical School, Irvine, CA;
software support for the Brain Imaging Center, image processing
and analysis of PET and multi-lead EEG surface activity maps,
mostly in Pascal, some Macro-11 assembly and FORTRAN

1/79 - 9/79

Programmer  Hughes Aircraft Co., Fullerton, CA;
software for Hughes Air Defense Radar System, M6800 assembly language

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Research & Publications

Calculus with Maple Labs, current project

Beginning Algebra, copyright 2004, published by Content on Demand,
ISBNS 0-9742139-0-X (Blackboard CMS) & 0-9742139-1-8 (WebCT CMS)

Intermediate Algebra, copyright 2004, published by Content on Demand,
ISBNS 0-9742139-3-4 (Blackboard CMS) & 0-9742139-4-2 (WebCT CMS)

Getting Started with Maple V, copyright 1999, published by Waterloo Maple, Inc. 
ISBN 0-9680167-7-4

Cellular Automata Dynamics, copyright 1997, (unpublished)

Dynamics of the Newton Transform of  zⁿ - 1, copyright 1993, (unpublished)

Generation and Analysis of Brain Surface Activity Maps,  
IEEE 1984 Frontiers of Engineering in Health Care Conference Proceedings

Positron Emission Tomography of Abnormal and Diseased States, II, (co-authorship)
published by the American Neurological Association in its supplement,
Research Issues in Positron Emission Tomography, 1984

Positron Emission Tomography Image Measurement in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, (co-authorship)
published in Annals of Neurology, 1983

PET in Schizophrenia and Affective Illness, (co-authorship)
published by the Society for Neuroscience 13th Annual Meeting Abstracts, 1983

PET in Schizophrenia and Affective Illness, (co-authorship)
published by the Society for Neuroscience 13th Annual Meeting Abstracts, 1983

Simultaneous PET Scan and EEG Tomography, (co-authorship)
published by the Society for Neuroscience 13th Annual Meeting Abstracts, 1983

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