RICHARD BOYD

11824  80th Avenue East

Puyallup, WA 98373-4761

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

 

Like challenge of solving problems

LISP / SMALLTALK

 

Jan1987--Jan1990

Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station  Keyport, WA

Advanced Technologist

 

Summary:  NUWES:  M.O.R.E:  Take over development of Missing Ordnance Recovery Expert, which was expert system to emulate activity of Navy Range Officer as he searched for torpedoes that went off-range during ocean tests off Canadian Coast. Consider depth, tides, drift, expanding search area, search vehicles available, previous searches, knowledge of ocean currents and sea floor. Soviet submarines in area … so Navy had to find torpedo before they did. Symbolics 3640 Lisp Machine and OPS5 production rule system. Access test range interface buffer for real-time data acquisition. Results plotted graphically … ships, helicopters, airplanes, torpedoes. Datanet8:  Perform all analysis, planning, coding, knowledge acquisition, and documentation for Smalltalk system to configure and optimize hundreds of computers, terminals, printers, etc. that were inputs to Datanet8 front-end of Honeywell mainframe. Wrote 5 volumes of documentation. Presented paper at HLSUA conference … won award as best presenter (Zenith laptop).

 

  1. Take over development of Navy expert system (M.O.R.E. - Missing Ordnance Recovery Expert) to locate torpedoes that go off-range during ocean tests.

  2. Integrate functional (Symbolics ZetaLisp), production rule (OPS5), and object oriented programming (Lisp Flavors OO Extension).

  3. Access test range interface buffer for real-time data acquisition and plotted results graphically (as ships, helicopters, airplanes, torpedoes) on a Symbolics 3640 Lisp Machine running the Genera operating system.

  4. Perform all project planning, knowledge acquisition, and Digitalk Smalltalk object oriented development for Navy system to configure and optimize hundreds of computers, terminals, printers, etc., that were inputs to the Datanet8 front-end of a Honeywell mainframe.

  5. Presented paper at HLSUA Forum 49 Conference in 1989 and won Best Presenter Award (Zenith laptop).

 

Skills:  Lisp, Smalltalk, OPS5, Symbolics 3640 Lisp Machine, Genera, Honeywell Mainframe.