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| To gain an integrated individuality, each of us needs to cultivate his own garden. But there is no fence about this garden: it is no sharply marked-off enclosure. Our garden is the world, in the angle at which it touches our manner of being. By accepting the corporate and industrial world in which we live, and by thus fulfilling the pre-condition for interaction with it, we, who are also parts of the moving present, create ourselves as we create an unknown future. --- John Dewey Individualism Old and New |
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You can send me email by clicking on the mailbox Or use my email address gloegel@lycos.com. Click The Official Web Page for First Monday Trade Days mabe be found here. Past Teaching Assignments
Washtenaw Community College
University of Michigan
Other PresentationsIf Object-Oriented is the Answer what was the Question? at Sabre, Inc. An Algebraic Approach to Modeling in Software Engineering at the Third International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 25 June 1993. Preprint Version Return to Top Work ExperienceMicrochip Technologies, Inc.Working on the PIC32 CompilerTippingPoint TechnologiesWireless Seismic Data CollectionPart of a team of contractors doing initial board bring-up for I/O Systems wireless seismic data colelction system FireFly.Gift Card DispenserBrought up the initial version of Long Range System's Gift Card Kiosk.Compiler ConstructionSenior Compiler Engineer on the XtoolZ Team at ZiLOG's Fort Worth Design Center. Developed and maintained compiler and other development tools based on the PLC SD/ToolSmith development system. The design center was closed in February 2004 and it's function's transferred to the Seattle Design Center and ZIEL in Banglore, India. Yield ManagementWorked at SABRE Airline Solutions as part of the team developing the core application software for AIRMAX O&D yield management system.Travelocity's Flight PagingI was team leader and designer for the original Flight Paging service from Travelocity.Intelligent AgentI developed some prototype agent applications. Our work was part of the 1996 Dartmouth Workshop on Transportable Agents and a summary may be found here.
The Superconducting Super Collider Project one of the most amazing projects never built. Ultimately the victim of a cost-cutting Congress wanting a symbolic victory, the SSC would have not only addressed some of the fundamental questions about the constituents of matter, but it would also have provided the opportunity to engineer a system of massive scale and complexity. The tunnels alone were more than twice the length of the Chunnel . How Much Would it Cost?Congress spent $3/year for every American on the SSC-- by contrast the Department of Defense spends about $1000 for every American in 1996-1997. What Happened?The Supercollider was cancelled because the new Congress, facing deficits as far as the eye could see, decided that it was too expensive. Of the 100 new Congressmen elected in 1992, eighty of them voted against funding the project in 1994. The cancellation came in October 1993 after spending approximately $2,000,000,000 (two billion dollars). The total cost to the taxpayer will never be known because once the shut-down funds were expended (approximately $640,000,000) anyone with a claim has to sue the U.S. Government. The will be no final accounting that includes these costs. Besides Congress, the DOE and SSC management share the blame for the SSC's cancellation by making the project appear worse off than it was. Sam Donaldson of ABC's 20/20 gets special mention for his help in burying the project by lumping the SSC in with government projects like Tea Tasting and testing the viscosity of ketchup. I was a Team Leader in the Controls Department of the Superconducting Super Collider. Our department served as system integrator for the various components of the SSC. Recycling the Super Collider, an article from the Dallas Morning News, may be found here. An article on the Ellis County Museum's Super Collider memorabilia may be found here .
The Optical Digital Image Storage System (ODISS 1986-1988) was a pilot program at the National Archives and Records Administration. ODISS put 2,000,000 Confederate Civil War Muster Records from Tennessee on-line using 12-inch Optical Disks stored in a refrigerator-sized SONY Jukebox. NARA showed this system to the Spanish National Archives in Madrid which later used the same idea in their Quincentenary Christopher Columbus Archive. I was responsible for the team developing the various scanners, the design documetation and wrote the disk management routines used in all of the servers. Systems Development Corporation developed and delivered ODISS to NARA under contract. NARA's report on ODISS in compressed Postscript or WordPerfect format may be found on the NARA gopher here. Other references at Optical Technology and Archives Preservation Resource Review.
The Federal Reserve uses check sorters to processes the huge volume of checks presented to the bank every day. The check sorters are also huge. Initially, Burrough Corporation provided many of these machines to the Fed. These larger machines were developed at the Tireman Avenue plant outside of Detroit. In 1982, Burrough moved all the sorter development to Plymouth, Michigan and began to aggressively upgrade the equipment to handle bigger check volumes. Previously all of the high-speed large-volume sorters were connected to the Burroughs Medium System (later V-series) mainframes. These mainframes were capable of reading the numbers off of a check and deciding which pocket to send a check to while the checks were flowing at 800 ips through the sorter. The mainframe had approximately 17 milliseconds to make the pocket select decision. Burroughs developed a system that put
Motorola 68000-based single-board computers in the high-speed
sorters. The mainframe now only needed to download the sort tables and
retrieve the batch totals. These systems were the basis for many of
the current check-processing
systems from Published PapersLoegel, Ravishankar "An Algebraic Approach to Modeling in Software Engineering." AMAST 1993AMAST'93: Advance ProgrammeMilos, Pleban, Loegel "Direct Implementation of Compiler Specifications or the Pascal P-code Compiler Revisited." POPL 1984Education
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