Paul Stephen Prueitt, PhD
Background: Paul Prueitt 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). He is currently teaching a full schedule, four freshman courses, in
computer science at Norwich University and working on private contracts in
service oriented computing.
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 has been 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, and others, on social learning
theory). The result suggests that novelty in enhancement curriculum will evoke
responsiveness; whereas the re-teaching of the same content may produce
heightened frustration and even despair. A draft of a book on this
curriculum is in draft form. His
focus on computing theory and freshman information science will be integrated
into this draft during the fall 2009 semester.
The enhancement curriculum n mathematics has three focuses, elementary
arithmetic taught in bases other then ten, foundations of set theory and the
first elements of abstract algebra. Experience from 2006-2008 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. Student essays and work demonstrated this success.
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.