Paul Stephen Prueitt, PhD
Background: Paul Prueitt
was born in 1951. He has a PhD (1988) in Pure and Applied
mathematics and has
published in areas related to cognitive engineering, knowledge science,
informatics, neural models of behavior, educational theory, distance
learning and applied mathematics. He has taught graduate courses at
George Washington, including one in the Spring 2003 on Scientific
Databases. He has served on several doctoral committees, in
engineering management, computer science and knowledge
management. He has taught over 30 courses at the community
colleges and an additional 70 courses in universities or colleges. He
has 18 hours of graduate work in Education (1985).
His interests include educational issues, science and educational
policy issues and educational access technology such as distance
learning and collaborative knowledge management systems. He
has been an articulate speaker in many settings, including policy
settings. He is involved in policy discussions regarding the
requirements specification of a national project to renew curriculums
in mathematics and computer science. A high school to college
bridge curriculum in both computer science and mathematics has being
developed and teaching pedagogy well tested.
He has defined a demand side educational pedagogy, called the "lifting
strategy". The lifting strategy’s pedagogy is based on a
cognitive-behavioral
result derived from the study of neural and immune response
systems. The result conjectures that the development of tolerance
effects students image of self (following the work by Bandura on
social learning theory). The result suggests that novelty in
enhancement curriculum will recieve native responsiveness; whereas the
re-teaching of the same content produces heightened frustration and
despair. A draft of a book on this curriculum is posted on the
Internet.
The enhancement curriculum has three
focuses, elementary arithmetic taught in bases other then ten,
foundations of set theory and the first elements of abstract
algebra. Experience this year and last shows that under-prepared
freshman students do well in this curriculum and that the comprehension
of theory and notation transfers to standard freshman mathematics
coursework.
Work in advanced technology
His work on advanced technology is not the focus of his academic
career, the development of the lifting pedagogy and a demand side
theory of information and education is his focus. However, work
on advanced technology will continue to be of interest and will
continue to result
in new publications.
During the years 1995 – 2004, he worked in the area of intelligent
algorithms, ontological modeling and web services. Over the past
several years he worked on the US Federal Enterprise Architecture, and
within several OASIS technical committees. Technology
specifications of which he is familiar include Federated Enterprise
Reference Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture Information Model
and Collaborative Services. He has recently authored a draft
standard titled “Community Centric Services for Education” and
co-authored a methodology paper on Service Oriented Deployment
Methodology. His effort has been directed at moving IT
procurement towards systems having less proprietary elements.
A redevelopment of computer science, based on an axiom set, much like
Hilbert mathematics is underway. He has made non-public
contributions to this work. This work has been and remains
confidential, but elements of it may be prepared for eventual
publication, and may be discussed with computer science faculty.
The key topics are inferential coherence, software transaction memory,
deep packet inspection,
stratified processing with manycores, distributed processing and data
and process standards. The logical foundations are partially
published starting in 1995.
In late 2004 he develop a Roadmap for Semantic Technology Adoption for
US Customs. This roadmap explains how commodity transaction
spaces can be measured and used to support management of community
vocabularies and web-ontology. He has proposed the development of
a school of information science based on a solid rejection of
the concept of artificial intelligence. This rejection is based
on experimental and theoretical results in quantum cognitive
neuroscience (Pribram, Penrose, Hameroff).
Education
Post Doc. Neuropsychology and Theory of Perception. Georgetown
University 1990 - 1993
Ph.D. Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas Arlington, 1988
M.A. Pure Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, 1980
B.A. Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington, 1978
Professional Goals
He currently wishes to teach in those fields that he is well qualified
to teach; collaborative systems, computer science, philosophy,
informatics, and mathematics. He wishes to serve
interdisciplinary program development within the academic community.
His objective is to serve within respected college environments, to
teach and to complete the several books. He has spent a lifetime
hoping to understand the
biological processes that support life and awareness. He would
like very much to settle into a period of time where he would have the
time to participate in scholarly contemplation about the progress
that has occurred during the past thirty years.
Teaching experience
Dr. Prueitt has taught over 100 course sections including subjects in
computer science, physics, mathematics and economics. His
teaching experience includes teaching part time at a number of
community colleges, and at six universities or colleges. In 1995
he left academia to work in the information technology and intelligence
technology areas. He has returned to academy in 2007 and would
like to
teach the foundations, history of mathematics, topology, number theory
and introductory mathematics. He has a strong interest in
remedial and enhancement arithmetic and algebra programs and has
developed a book
having a curriculum design for remediation of acquired learning
disability in arithmetic and algebra. He has 18 hours of graduate
work in education, and may teach education courses.
Professional Experience
Dr. Prueitt has worked on retrieval technology, data modeling and
database interface design and coding using Oracle, SQL Server, Access,
FoxPro, VB, Objective C, parallel C, C, C# and C++. He has designed,
prototyped and implemented scalable commercial software systems
targeted at integrating retrieval technologies, transaction analysis,
data mining and text/image technologies. For fifteen years, he has
managed the efforts of small teams of programmers. A book on
knowledge management technology and capability is in manuscript
form. In 1991 – 1994 he was co-Director of the Neural Network
Facility at Georgetown University with funding from MIT, Lincoln Labs
and DARPA. In 1999 – 2003 he was a Visiting Scholar attached to
the Cyber Security Policy & Research Institute. He has been
engaged in policy briefings regarding computer science deployment
within the federal government.
Work on the challenges facing
underserved students
After the experiences within federal information technology circles
(1991-2007) and due to some teaching experiences in the HBCU system, he
focused on an effort (2007-2009) to gain additional understanding of
the HBCU administration, faculty and students. He meet students
who once given a chance excelled, and
administrations that were lacking in many of the qualities that one
should be able to expect in a college. This experience reinforced
an
underlying sense that student oriented pedagogy and curriculum, what I
have begun to call “demand side education”, has considerable merit;
particularly in under-served communities.
Professional Associations
(2005) Individual Member, OASIS Internal Standards Committee
(2001) Founder of a knowledge systems consulting firm
OntologyStream Inc.
(1997) Founder of the Behavioral Computational Neuroscience (BCN)
Group, Inc. The BCN Group is a small, not for profit, scientific
organization with a mission to aid scientific collaboration relating to
machine and natural intelligence.
(1998) Member Knowledge Management Professional Society
(1997) Founding Member of Knowledge Management Professional Society
(1988) Member of INNS (International Neural Network Society)
(1986) Member American Mathematical Society
Employment History
Aug 2008- June 2009 Associate Professor of Mathematics
(visiting), Lane College, Jackson Tennessee. Supervisor Division Chair
Dr Jimmy Hwang
The Lifting Pedagogy methodology was used in teaching eight sections of
freshman mathematics and two advanced courses. Several program
proposals were developed in conjunction with other professors of
mathematics. Two publications were submitted.
Aug 2007 – June 2008 Chair and Associate Professor of Mathematics,
Talladega College, 383 Battle Street, Talladega Alabama.
Supervisor Academic Vice President, Dr Arthur Bacon
As chair of a small department, I structured a freshman mathematic
program designed to bring student forward in an environment where many
barriers existed.
Jan 2003 – Aug 2007: President of OntologyStream Inc
Development of business plans and infrastructure for an e-commerce
system
Contract working on Service Oriented Architecture with application to
Higher Education
Contracts with US Customs working on ontology mediated of threat
analysis
Contracts with client working on service oriented architecture, web
services and semantic extraction environments.
Contract with the FCC on document management, taxonomy design and
development.
2001 - 2003: Adjunct Faculty in Computer Science at George Washington
University. Research Professor at Cyber Security Policy &
Research Institute at George Washington University (Ashburn Campus)
· Continuing the
evaluation of the use of data mining, data visualization and decision
support systems for the intelligence community, under contract to
OntologyStream Inc.
· Developing
planning for a Federal Biodefense System
· Working on a
text book for liberal arts mathematics
· Working on
distance learning delivery systems
October 2002 – Jan 2003: Dr. Prueitt was the Senior Scientist at Object
Sciences Corporation, located in Alexandria Virginia. 703-253-1106.
· Developed
patents in the area of latent semantic indexing and text understanding
· Developed
funding instruments for deployment of innovations into government
agencies
· Evaluated the
use of data mining, data visualization and decision support systems for
the intelligence community
May 2000 – October 2002: President of OntologyStream Inc.
· Developed a
database structure that provides knowledge management tools.
· Worked on
computer security architecture. He designed Computer Emergency Response
Team (CERT) architecture for a government client. Used AI and data
aggregation methods to automate the development and population of
taxonomy models of intrusion events. Developed Visual Basic software
and ported part of this software to C#.
· Provided
evaluation of patent portfolio for more that one start-up company.
· Created a
conceptual framework and logical design for business architectures
based on analytic in-memory database technologies using the Forth
language.
· Worked within
virtual teams.
· Documented a
conceptual framework and logical design for a three-tier (Application
Server based) information delivery system for Acappella Software Inc.
· Worked on
business development issues and interacted with the various client
company board members.
February 2000 – May 2000: Wizdom Systems Inc. is an established
Business Process Re-engineering firm with offices in Alexandria, VA.
Title: Consultant on Knowledge Management Project for Office of
Secretary of Defense.
· Developed an
evaluative architecture for synthesizing best practices and lessons
learned from large-scale Knowledge Management activities in government
agencies.
· Interfaced
with Office of Secretary of Defense on advanced technology issues
· Worked in a
non-classified role within the political environment of the US policy
environment.
· Business
Development.
May 1999 – January 2000. GMA Industries is a provider of subcontracting
services to the US government. Title: Senior Member of the Technical
Staff.
· Designed and
built a parallel implementation of data compression including Huffman,
Rice and LZ algorithms.
· He developed
original design for interactive mammography understanding system
(coded) based on fractal compression/decompression and associative
memories.
October 1998 - April, 1999. NetBase Corporation is a provider of system
integration services in Chantilly Virginia. Title: Senior Scientist
· Developed
adaptive retrieval technology as part of a contract to the State
Department involving a prototype distance learning system. This
prototype was one of the most advanced system in the world at that time.
· August, 1998 –
January 1999. (Part Time) Declassification Productivity Research Center
(DPRC) at George Washington University. Title: Executive Research Fellow
· Duties
included advice to CIA, NSA and DOE Offices of Declassification
regarding architecture for image and text understanding.
· He designed
and prototyped a full text knowledge management system for scientific
collaboration using HTML and Oracle ConText. Worked with a distributed
community of about 100 individuals.
May 1995 – October 1998: Highland Technologies is a document management
software company and system integrator in Lanham Maryland. Title:
Senior Scientist
· Duties were to
design and code retrieval systems using natural language processors,
artificial intelligence, logic and original algorithms.
· Configured
COTS systems and workflow using an Oracle database.
· He designed
and prototyped a system for redaction assistance during government
declassification of documents.
· Supervised
several programmers and a specialist in Russian logic.
· Traveled to
Russia to discuss situational logics with Russian scientists.
· Invented a
full text routing and retrieval algorithm (published in 1998).
· Designed,
prototyped, and managed the coding of a high volume transaction system
for trouble ticket analysis for a large telecommunication corporation.
May 1994 – May 1995: Senior Programmer at JWK International Corporation
in Annandale Virginia. Title: Senior Programmer
· Manage a team
of three professional nutritionists and a team of three FoxPro
programmers in the development of an automated dietary assessment
interface.
· Business
development.
August 1993 – May 1994: Saint Paul’s College in South Hill Virginia.
Title: Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
· Taught and
researched the remedial teaching of mathematics.
· Developed
grant proposals.
· Made scholarly
presentations at two conferences (quantum neurodynamics).
May 1990 – August 1993: Physics Department, Georgetown University in
Washington D.C. Title: Research Assistant Professor
· Co-Director of
the Neural Network Research Facility.
· Received a
National Science Foundation grant in support of a national conference
on biological signal process and cognition.
· Received
contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the
area of distributed intelligence and quantum-neuropsychology.
· Interacted
with program managers at DARPA and NSF and with an extended scientific
community.
· Funded by NSF
to develop original work on computational models of human / computer
interactions in Objective C.
· Developed
parallel computation of original models of learning using a network of
Next Computers, a SUN (UNIX) computer, and transputers.
· Used object
classes to model concurrent processes, communications between
concurrent processes using transputers.
· Developed
multi-university consortium proposals to DARPA on collaborative
technologies.
August 1988 – May 1990: Hampton University in Hampton Virginia. Title:
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
· Worked on a
contract for Naval Surface Warfare Center using NeXT computers.
· Developed a
Fortran simulator of artificial neural network architectures
Previous to 1988: PhD work on mathematical models of learning in
biological systems.
Publications
Dr Prueitt has published just under thirty referred web articles,
journal articles or book chapters. He has extensively published
into a web log that he started in the mid 1990s, and has draft
materials for several books.