RICHARD BOYD

11824  80th Avenue East

Puyallup, WA 98373-4761

253-906-6830; richard.v.boyd@comcast.net

 

Like challenge of solving problems

EDUCATION

 

University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ

1991-1993

PhD Geophysical Engineering -- 3.9 GPA                                                                                                             

Research to automate subsurface image interpretation for Martian probe. Simulation of simple human decision making process.

Developed client/server, distributed processing system between two Sun SPARCstations to interpret ground penetrating radar signatures. Object oriented and rule based processing on SPARC1 - neural network pattern recognition on SPARC2. Embedded C primitives within Smalltalk.

Converted neural network pattern recognition to fuzzy theory. Fine tune via Genetic Algorithms.

Interpreting Ground-Penetrating Radar Images

 

 

University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ

1982-1986

M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering -- 3.9 GPA

Artificial Intelligence Plan Generation using Prolog

Minor in AI

 

 

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School - Deerfield, IL

1971-1974

M.Div. Theology – 3.5 GPA

Greek, Hebrew, Theology

 

 

Faith Evangelical Lutheran Seminary – Tacoma, WA

1969-1970

Greek, Theology

 

 

University of Washington - Seattle, WA

1960-1964

B.S. Aeronautical Engineering

 

 

 

 

HONORS

 

Tau Beta Pi (national engineering honor society)

Golden Key National Honor Society

National Dean's List

IEEE Engineer of the Year Award (USAISC, Ft. Huachuca, AZ)

Best Presenter at Honeywell Conference

 

 

 

 

SHORT  COURSES

 

C++     [1989]  Dr. Ira Pohl at University of California Santa Cruz.

 

Parallel Distributed Processing        [1989]  Dr. David Rumelhart at Stanford University.

 

 

 

 

LANGUAGES

 

If I had to pick only one: F#    (Clojure is runner-up)

Used on most projects: Java, C#, Smalltalk, Silverlight, ActionScript, Flex

Occasionally used: Lisp, C/C++, VB.NET, Python, Ruby, Groovy, JavaScript, REBOL

Light usage: Forth, Scala

 

 

 

 

CURRENT INTERESTS

 

·         F#, Clojure,   Functional Programming, Hybrid Programming

·         Fuzzy Logic Modeling

·         Intelligent Agents

·         Uncertainty

·         Semantic Web

·         Cloud

·         Silverlight/WPF

·         LINQ/PLINQ

·         Entity Framework

·         TPL Parallel Programming

·         GIS