Paul Stephen Prueitt, PhD
Moving
Information Commons to the Next Step
I
have been working on serviced oriented methodology for higher education. My greatest desire is to over see the
implementation of low cost information commons for various social
and business sectors. This work remains
private and confidential, but can be reviewed under proper agreements.
Part
of this work involves the development of pedagogy and curriculum related to
freshman mathematics programs. What
kinds of services are needed in cases where a college or university has a
failing program in mathematics and English?
This semester, I am developing a Quality Enhancement Plan for a small four-year
college focused on the Freshman Program.
This plan involves the development of focus issues via survey
instruments and the refinement of statistical data into visual conceptual
maps.
Paul Prueitt has a PhD
(1988) in Pure and Applied mathematics and has published in areas related to
cognitive engineering, knowledge science, bioinformatics, 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 doctorial committees, in engineering management, computer science
and knowledge management. He has taught
over 30 courses at the community colleges and an additional 40 courses in
universities.
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.
The curriculum is based on a cognitive-behavioral result derived from
the study of neural and immune response systems, and the development of tolerance
effecting students image of self (following the work by Bandura on social
learning theory). The result suggests
that novelty in the remediation curriculum can reach native responsiveness;
where as 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. [1]
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 and towards open architectural systems where the focus can be on what
IT is supposed to be doing, as opposed to supporting the IT sector.
In late 2004 he develop a
Roadmap for Semantic Technology Adoption for US Customs. [2]
This roadmap explains how transaction spaces can be measured and used to
support management of community vocabularies and web-ontology.
Dr Prueitt has proposed
the development of the second school of information science based on a solid
rejection of the concept of artificial intelligence, and on a declaration of
independence from the computer programming and software professions.
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
Dr Prueitt has recently
developed proposals for applying an OASIS methodology standard, OASIS Business
Centric Methodology, to the issues faced by higher education’s use of
information technology. This work
builds on three decades of professional experience within higher education and
on the issues related to governance and mission.
He currently wishes to
join a university, or community college, and serve in the role of CTO/CIO or
technology advisor, as well as 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 long term objective
is to serve within a respected university of college environment, to teach and
to complete the several books that he has spend a life time writing. Dr Prueitt has spent a lifetime, he is now
56, 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 could participate in scholarly
contemplation about the progress that has occurred during the past thirty
years. University or college salary is
acceptable.
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 scaleable 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.
He has taught over 90
university courses in mathematics, computer science, physics and economic
theory. Some of his work on intelligent tutoring systems has been published as
an innovative means to overcome a fear of mathematics. A book on educational
access has been under development for a number of years. 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.
Starting in 2005 he developed
a virtual technology for e-commerce based on his businesses in Taos New
Mexico. His father is a famous artist,
Kelly Pruitt, and the e-commerce business is being designed to use virtual
community technology to display and represent fine art from Taos New
Mexico.
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
Teaching experience
Dr. Prueitt has taught over
90 courses including subjects in computer science, physics, mathematics and
economics. His teaching experience
includes teaching part time at a number of community colleges, and at five
universities. In 1995 he left academia
to work in the information technology and intelligence technology areas. He wish is to return to a university and
contribute to the development of new computer science curriculum that addresses
issues related to localization of information in XML and objects and to support
for human knowledge management. He
would like to teach the foundations, history of mathematics, topology, number
theory and introductory mathematics. He
has a strong interest in remedial arithmetic and algebra programs and has
developed a book having a curriculum design for remediation of acquired
learning disability in arithmetic and algebra.
Employment History
Current employment can
be given by request.
Jan 2003 – present:
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
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Working on a text book for liberal arts
mathematics
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Invented a full text routing and retrieval
algorithm (published in 1998).
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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.
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Business development.
August 1993 – May 1994:
Saint Paul’s College in South Hill Virginia. Title: Associate Professor of
Mathematics and Computer Science
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Taught and researched the remedial teaching of
mathematics.
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Developed grant proposals.
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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.
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Received a National Science Foundation grant in
support of a national conference on biological signal process and cognition.
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Received contracts from the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency in the area of distributed intelligence and
quantum-neuropsychology.
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Interacted with program managers at DARPA and NSF
and with an extended scientific community.
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Funded by NSF to develop original work on
computational models of human / computer interactions in Objective C.
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Developed parallel computation of original models
of learning using a network of Next Computers, a SUN (UNIX) computer, and
transputers.
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Used object classes to model concurrent
processes, communications between concurrent processes using transputers.
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Developed multi-university consortium proposals
to DARPA on collaborative technologies.
August 1988 – May 1990: Hampton
University in Hampton Virginia. Title: Assistant Professor of Mathematics
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Worked on a contract for Naval Surface Warfare
Center using NeXT computers.
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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.