James Allen Bowery aka Jim Bowery
Curriculum Vitae Highlights
1974 – Authored one of the first electronic mail
systems. (PLATO Communications
Project; George Carter and Stuart Umpleby, Principal Investigators).
1974 – Authored the first multiuser virtual reality
simulation. This originated a lineage
that, via Sublogic’s Flight Simulator, evolved into Microsoft Flight
Simulator. (Plato lesson “spasim”)
1981 – Invented the basis for Postscript (the reverse polish
communications protocol that provided the basis for modern laser printing) and
communicated it to Xerox PARC as Manager of Interactive Architectures for
Knight Ridder News and AT&T in their joint venture company Viewdata
Corporation of America.
1985 – Authored one of the first multiuser chat and conferencing
systems for MS-DOS (FORA).
1991 – As Chairman for the Coalition for Science and
Commerce, testified before the US Congress regarding space commercialization
and was introduced to the subcommittee on space by Congressman Ron Packard as a
primary proponent of statutes such as Public Law 101-611, the Launch Services
Purchase Act of 1990, and the launch vouchers experimental program which passed
into law as part of Congressman Bob Walker’s Omnibus Space Commercialization
bill the next year.
1992 – As Vice President for Public Affairs of E’Prime
Aerospace Corporation, saw the stock of that company through a 1000% increase
in market valuation, published in Space Technology International on the
conversion of MX (Peacekeeper) Missile technology for commercial launch
services, and led the successful pursuit of the first Ka-band satellite license
ever issued (on behalf of E’Prime’s client, Norris Communications).
1993 – Authored the reliable transaction subsystem of what
became the most widely deployed automated toll road collection system (with
Science Applications International Corporation).
1996 – With Roger Everett Gregory, co-invented a simplified,
high performance liquid rocket engine – US Patent 6,212,876
1998 - Pioneering innovations in Web-based Customer Relationship Management at Hewlett-Packard Corporation.
2001 - Originated the idea and technical approach for TIBET(tm) method inference and multiple inheritance algorithms.
Born January 30, 1954 into sept
Helena's Hub of clan 14 14 22 10 11 13 09 16 12 11 (the rarest of European American patrilines according to the Y-STR USA population analysis).
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