Year Notable Moments

1952 Born 12 weeks early. 3.5 pounds. Spared blindness by 2 weeks by using oxygen/nitrogen mix in incubator.1954 Said third word - “Hoppercopper” (because one flew over).1959 Watched my father build a sailboat in the basement.1960 Saw U.S. satellite Echo 1 in the night sky above Old Litchfield Road, Washington, CT. 1961 Conked on head by a rock that I threw upwards and tried to catch with my eyes closed.1962 Hooked telephone to Lionel train crossing gate. Saying "DOWN" made the gate go down. Saying "UP" made the gate go down too but it fooled people.1963 Built a.m. radio from wire, cardboard tube, diode, cigar box, copper strip, earphone.1964 Was taught to add a white dot reflection on each grape in art class reflecting light from the window. “Look. The whole world reflected in every grape.”1965 Built Remco Science Kit electric motor.1966 Made a cardboard Stellated icosahedron - twenty pointed star. Developed 1st roll of film in mother's Steuben crystal bowl.1967 First big term paper on "The History of Computers". Understood what binary arithmetic was.1968 Discovered Running. Varsity cross-country my freshman year.1969 Built darkroom at home. 1970 Developed first color slide film in home darkroom. Captain of Cross-Country team.Holderness School.1971 Designed electronic version of the toy "Think-a-Dot" using relays. Re-invented the latching relay as memory element.1972 College. Began as CS major. Soon changed to inter-departmental Art / Physics. Took first digital logic design course.1973 Fractured two discs. Paralyzed for 4 months. Photographed balloon in mid-pop with dorm-room build sound activated strobe.1974 Art Department's darkroom manager. Built electronic exposure meter. Printed pictures on photo-etched PCB board material.1975 Excelled in scientific photography, 3-D design. Built motorized potters wheel. Learned about Edwin Land’s Retinex theory of color vision.1976 Graduate level digital design course. Graduated, no jobs for Art / physics types. Worked 6 months assembly line, snapping caps on Ban Basic bottles.1977 Began study of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute. Model making, rendering, prototyping, design for manufacture, sculpture.1978 Wrote program on 49-program step HP calculator for plotting 3-D views of objects from floor plan and elevation views1979 Master's Thesis "A Wind Energy System for Fire Island Home". Worked part-time in military contract manufacturing plant.1980 Worked in manufacturing sweat shop as special assistant. Was fired when I could not get the surplus wave solder machine to work.1981 Worked at Conrac Corporation as Production Support Engineer. Built test equipment to calibrate Grumman Air Data Computer on kitchen table.1982 Started at Simmonds Precision, Inc, designer/manufacturer of avionic actuators. Designed their first digital closed-loop actuator controllers. 1983 Started running again. Ran 14 miles. Built Sinclair computer kit in living room. Figured out how to save a neighbor's kitten stuck ten feet down in 5" pipe.1984 Learned programming in Assembly and C. Designed, wire-wrapped and programmed my own microprocessor circuits. Built balsa wood Piper Cub model.1985 Designed actuator controller for unmanned target drone that got blasted from the sky. Designed constant-speed DC motor controller using tach feedback..1986 Served on the Board of Trustees of Far Brook School as the first alumni trustee(six years).1987 Played Robin Starveling the Taylor in Far Brook Schools first alumni Shakespeare Play - A Midsummer Night's Dream.1988 Married Patricia. On our honeymoon a monkey stole my steak in the Amazon. Started family. 1989 Runner-up in Pool & Patio magazine's landscape design contest. At work began using PALS, programmable digital logic instead of standard parts.1990 Helped develop the Swash-Plate actuator system for Bombardier's CL-227 flying helicopter surveillance drone.1991 Design for Manufacturing course at Polytechnic University Hawthorne, NY 1992 Ran first NYC Marathon (4:12:30). "Between" jobs for 12 months. Worked Manpower secretarial stints.1993 Worked at Ilex Systems which monitored compliance of military software projects out of Ft. Monmouth.1994 Honorable mention in Circuit Cellar magazine's PIC micro-controller design contest for sun-tracking electronic automotive sun visor.

1995 At my hiring at Lucent, my hiring manager "lost" my resume so he “wasn’t able” to show it to his boss since I clearly had no MSEE nor telecom.experience.1996 Patent: Improved Digital synthesizer. Many embedded control projects. Learned VHDL digital synthesis and simulation language.1997 Patent: non-linear glitch filter. abandoned (it had already been invented)1998 Patent: wireless camera and supporting network infrastructure. Began using Field Programmable Gate Array digital devices. (FPGAs)

1999 Began work on RF amplifier digital pre-distortion, a now widely used method to provide good RF linearity with high-efficiency at low-cost .2000 January 1st, found that for 12 years, all of our house sewage was being deposited under our kitchen floor slab. Welcome to the new millennium. 2001 Lucent Technology’s RF amplifier business unit spun off as the startup Celiant Corporation to produce pre-distortion and traditional feed-forward amplifiers.2002 Patent: Low-latency programmable transfer function device. ADC-> SRAM -> DAC. 2003 Invented novel efficient Finite-Impulse-Response digital filter structure implemented in FPGAs. 2004 Developed minor friendship with Al Aronowitz (legendary rock journalist who arranged for Dylan to meet the Beatles). Then he died.2005 Ran 11th NYC Marathon. 2006 Implemented a way to "Clone-proof" company's proprietary circuit design using SHA-1 digital encryption.2007 Flown out to San Jose by FPGA supplier Altera Corporation to see my use of their devices and for my suggestions for improvements to their FPGA tools.2008 Completed 160-page screenplay based on true story "Flight of Passage". 2009 Starting project to digitize and transcribe the recently found "Bucky Fuller Tapes" recorded when he spoke at Far Brook in 1969.2010 Provided volunteer photographic services to charitable organization Hartley House in Hell’s Kitchen NYC.2011 Rebuilt our home’s gas furnace from scratch. Saved thousands of dollars. Ran 12th NYC Marathon.2012 Started consulting work at Alcatel-Lucent - Bell Labs redesigning wireless radio board for reduced cost.2013 < nothing good > my mom passed away with grace, wit and peace.2014 < nothing good > 2015 Air & Space Magazine to print article based on the Max Miller crash location story June 2015

Miscellaneous accomplishments / ideas / inventions / notesDeveloped and estimated 1500 rolls of black & white film in lifetime (and a number of rolls of Ektachrome transparency. Home darkroom color printing too.).Conceived idea for self-sharpening disposable razors. Currently testing.Invented method to clean leaves out of un-reachable third floor roof gutters from ground levelRealized that you can stop the annoying banging of flag pole halyards by un-cleating it, doing a spiral wrap around the pole, then re-cleating the line.Repaired marine diesel engine knowing nothing about marine diesel engines.Surreptitiously cleared public hiking trail in Warren, NJ after downed trees from the Halloween snow storm made them impassable.Once ran a flat tire around lower Manhattan to find an open service station to help a stranded mother with baby at the outbound entrance to the Holland tunnel.Initiating project to erect plaque honoring the 20-plus airmail pilots who died during the US Airmail Service era 1918-1920 at one of the crash sites.