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Editorials
- An inspirational "Last Lecture" from the great computer scientist Professor Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon University
- Consider Dave's Maternal Surname Proposal for passing down female family names to successive generations
- We need a National referendum on
Congressional perks
It’s Time for a Change!
Activities
- Dave and Becky have been volunteering since about 2004 at Partners in Care and at a local hospice with Professional Health Care Resources.
- Dave added a live BirdCam accessible using a Yahoo birdcam widget or an iGoogle birdcam gadget.
- Dave's software called the Degree of Interest Tree browser (DOITree) is described in this recent paper presented at the Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) conference: Degree-of-Interest Trees: A Component of an Attention-Reactive User Interface
- WebTOC is a product that automatically creates a hierarchical table of contents for a website. The video describing WebTOC is available at open-video.org
- In honor of the Ides of March, here's a newspaper Dave and a friend created in about 1965 called "The Philosophor" documenting the situation in Rome on that fateful day: Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
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Genealogy
- Family
Stories from the Bedford, Gritton, Loonan, Molyneux, Nation,
and Vaughan families
Professional
Dave
grew up in Hudson,
Iowa, got his B.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University of Science and Technology and
M.S. in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins
University. He has also studied at the University
of Northern Iowa and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Boston University.
Dave and two other people (Dr. Richard Lippmann and Linda Kukolich)
were the inventors of LNKnet - a software package now available as public
domain software that assists researchers in developing pattern classification
algorithms including artificial neural
networks. Dave and another two people (Thomas Wescott
and Lawrence McCleary) were awarded United States Patent numbers 5,341,463
in 1994 and 5,475,802
in 1995 for the "Selective polygon map display method". From
1996-1999 Dave was involved in a development program for Information
visualization. In 1996-97 he did research in Dr. Ben Shneiderman's Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory ( HCIL)
at the
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Information about SimpleSun Applet displayed at top of page.
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