CURRICULUM VITAE
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Dr. Frank D. M. Wilson


CONTACT INFORMATION
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Address:  52 Harding Way
          Cambridge
          CB4 3RR

Phone:    0778 648 1709 

Email:    fdmw@yahoo.com 


OBJECTIVE
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A software design or engineering role commensurate with my experience and
expertise. Particular interests include radar and air traffic control
applications, real-time linux / Unix systems, neural networks and pattern
recognition, HTML and website development, industrial process control. 


EXPERIENCE
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1) May 2005 - date                Self-employed (Cambridge, England)

   Since May 2005, worked - with various breaks - as a freelance consutant
   in the Speech Technology Group (STG) at Toshiba's Cambridge Research
   Laboratory. Worked initially on text normalization and later on dictionary
   and voice building processes for the ToSpeak multi-language text-to-speech
   (TTS) system, using Perl, and some Python as well as C on a linux platform.

2) October 1997 - August 2003     Self-employed (Frankfurt, Germany)

   On behalf of the German Air Navigation Service (DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung), 
   performed software maintenance work on Germany's Air Traffic Control (ATC)
   system (DERD-X, DERD-XL). Expanded the system's capacity from 9 to 15
   radars and doubled the tracker capacity. Implemented network interface
   and format conversion software allowing the system to obtain radar data
   in new formats (ASTERIX, Mode S) via an FDDI network. Investigated and 
   fixed software problems.  Supported studies of tracker accuracy with the
   goal of more efficient airspace utilization. Took part in porting the
   system to a newer and more powerful 64-bit hardware platform (Compaq Alpha
   running Tru64 Unix), enabling the system to remain in operation for several
   years beyond its originally-anticipated lifetime. 

3) Sept. 1985 - Sept. 1997        Raytheon Inc. (Marlborough, Massachusetts)

   Designed and implemented radar processing, tracking and real-time quality
   control software for ATC display systems currently in use in Norway,
   Germany, and Canada. Designed and coded data recording and playback
   software and various other algorithms for the Terminal Doppler Weather
   Radar (TDWR) system, for the U.S. Government. Experience both as an
   individual contributor and as a manager of groups of up to 7-9 other
   engineers. 

4) April 1982 - May 1985          Systems Designers PLC (Fleet, Hampshire)

   Assigned to Systems Designers' client ASEA AB, based in Vasteraas, 
   Sweden.  Designed and implemented a suite of file transfer software for
   communication between a Modcomp CLASSIC minicomputer and a Honeywell
   mainframe. Managed a small team responsible for quality control aspects
   of a Motorola 68000 based modular industrial process control product.
   Designed and implemented a real-time test bed capable of supporting the
   product's wide range of internal and external interfaces. 

5) August 1979 - March 1982       Data Logic Ltd. (Ruislip, Middlesex)

   Designed and implemented target tracking software, and designed adaptive
   reflection suppression software for a secondary radar (SSR) plot extractor
   developed by Cossor Electronics for the U.K. Government. The software was
   implemented on Intel 8086/7 hardware, using the MASCOT design methodology.


EDUCATION
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1) St. John's College, University of Cambridge Cambridge, England 
      B.A., Mathematics / Computer Science, 1979 
      M.A., 1983 

2) Boston University Boston, Massachusetts 
      M.Sc., Computer Science, 1991 
      Ph.D., Cognitive and Neural Systems, 1996 


COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
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Software: C, Ada, Pascal, HTML, C++, PL/M, FORTRAN, CASE tools
          (Software through Pictures, ProMod, MASCOT), Perl, LaTeX 

Systems: UNIX (various platforms), linux, X-windows, MS-Windows,
         IBM PC, Motorola 88000, Motorola 68000, VAX/VMS, Siemens 300 


OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS
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* Teaching assistant for Prof. M. Cohen's course in neural speech models,
  at Boston University (Spring 1995). 

* Experience of living and working in four different countries (U.K.,
  U.S.A., Germany, Sweden). Working knowledge of German and Swedish. 


PUBLICATIONS
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"ARTMAP-DS: Pattern Discrimination by Discounting Similarities"
(with G. Carpenter). Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN'97 proceedings.
Berlin: Springer, 1997. 

"Neural networks for noise-tolerant category discrimination with
application to continuous speech segmentation" (Ph.D. thesis, January 1996). 

"Gated dipoles for operant conditioning" (with P. Gaudiano and D. Surmeli). 
Neural Networks, 7(2), 1994. 

"Learning to fly in Sweden". Pilot, 20(5), 1986. 


REFERENCES
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To be provided on request.