Paul Stephen Prueitt, PhD

 

703-981-2676

Chantilly Virginia, 20151

 

Publications

Book

 

 

Paul Prueitt has a PhD (1988) in Pure and Applied mathematics and has published in areas related to knowledge science. Since leaving academia in 1994, he has worked in a broad range of computer technology areas. These areas include intrusion technology, technology evaluation, new product definition, software conceptual design, software logical design, data modeling, team building, management, collaborative tools and algorithms.

 

He has an awareness of all leading edge information push / pull information technologies. He is aware of most of the conceptual search and full text indexing technology including those based on statistical analysis and those based on linguistic analysis.

 

He is one of the Founders of the Behavioral Computational Neuroscience Group (1997).

 

His interests include educational issues, science and educational policy issues and educational access technology such as distance learning and collaborative knowledge management systems.

 

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 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, 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.

 

He has taught over 80 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.  He is currently teaching a graduate course on scientific database at George Washington University.

 

He has been engaged in policy briefings regarding computer science deployment within the federal government.

 

Professional Associations

 

(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.

 

 

Employment History

 

Current: Adjunct Faculty in Computer Science at George Washington University.  Research Professor at Cyber Security Policy & Research Institute at George Washington University (Ashburn Campus)

 

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 agengies

 

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 (ASP 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.

·              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.

·              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 1955 – 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.

 

August 1988 – May 1990: Hampton University in Hampton Virginia. Title: Assistant Professor of Mathematics

 

·              Worked on a contract for Navel 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.