LINAS

VEPSTAS, PhD

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Austin TX 78703-3424

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http://www.linas.org

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OVERVIEW

Extensive experience in

science and technology development, both in academic and in large and

small business settings. PhD in theoretical physics. 10+ years, IBM

Systems Division. Founder of several VC-funded startup companies.

10+ years experience as project leader and developer in Gnu/Linux

software. Patents in graphics and CPU hardware architecture.

Publications in theoretical physics, including recent publications in

mathematics. Current focus is on the application of statistical

methods for the semantic processing of language.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

On the Minkowski Measure, arXiv:0810.1265

An efficient algorithm for accelerating the convergence of

oscillatory series, useful for computing the polylogarithm and

Hurwitz zeta functions, arXiv:math/0702243

Numerical

Algorithms 47(3) March

2008 pp 211-252

with Philippe Flajolet, On

Differences of Zeta Values, arXiv:math/0611332

Journal

of Computational and Applied Mathematics,

220 (1-2),

15 October 2008, Pages 58-73

On Plouffe's Ramanujan

Identities, arXiv:math/0609775

Creation or major expansion of

over 400 mathematics articles at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Linas/Articles

List of older publications,

patents available on request.

OPEN-SOURCE

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Maintainer, 2007-present, Link Grammar Parser,

(http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/),

and RelEx Relation Extractor, (https://launchpad.net/relex)

Lead developer 2003-2007, PCI Error Recovery

(http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.27/Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.txt),

maintainer, spidernet driver.

Lead developer 1997-2002, Gnucash Project

(http://www.gnucash.org) and

the Gnome Time Tracker (http://gttr.sourceforge.net/).

Lead developer 1999, Linux on the Mainframe

(http://www.linas.org/linux/i370.html)

Lead Developer, 1994, GLE Tubing and Extrusion Utilities

(http://linas.org/gle/).

Participated in or created nearly a dozen other open-source

projects. Founding member of Gnome Foundation (2000). Founding

member of the OpenGL ARB (1993). Maintainer of early website on

Enterprise Linux software systems (1995-2001).

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Consultant, Novamente

November

2007-present

Research

and software development for natural language processing.

Senior Software Consultant,

contractor to IBM via EML Incorporated, March 2003-November 2007

Linux kernel development for

next-generation PowerPC-based servers and systems.

Founder/V.P. Technology, Tristel

International/TQI Corporation, Dec 2001-March 2003

Remote sensing/measurement electronics

for petroleum industry. Signal processing enhancements to GPS

receivers used for military aircraft navigation.

Founder/CEO, Gnumatic

Incorporated, Jan

2000-July 2001

VC-funded Linux/Open Source startup,

commercialization of the open-source GnuCash personal finance

manager.

Systems Analyst, contractor

to IBM via 1Tac, Jan 1998-Jan 2000

Performance measurement and analysis,

IBM/Integrion web-based online financial services offering.

Founder/CEO/CTO, INTRANSCO/Teleport

Travel, 1995-1998

VC-funded (pre-)dot-com bubble era

first-ever web-based air travel reservation system.

Architect/Advisory Programmer, IBM,

1988-1995

OpenGL

3D graphics systems architect. Overview of hardware and software

development. Coordination with business development, marketing.

Visiting Research Scientist, Centre

d'Etudes Nucliares, CEA,

Gif-sur-Yvette (Paris), France 1986-1987

Research in theoretical particle

physics.

Visiting Scientist,Jagellonian

University, Krakow, Poland 1987

Research in theoretical particle

physics.

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, State

University of New York as Stony Brook, Physics 1986.

Thesis "Chiral Models of the

Nucleon"

Ars Baccalaurat, The

College, University of Chicago, Physics 1980

Minor studies in AI, child

development, psychology.

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Linas has a variety of personal

interests, with a recent infatuation with competitive (crew) rowing.

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