Gregory C. Wilcox

A position in which I can make a significant contribution to the environmental health of the Earth. I can offer my engineering and scientific software skills to a technical job, or my composition and editing abilities to a writing post.

Pyxsys, Inc.

Develop applications for the Xplor supercomputer. The Xplor is a massively parallel computer with up to one million processors. Part time, 1/2000 - 11/2001. Applications include:

• NAS Parallel Benchmarks
• Random number generator using Additive Lagged Fibonacci method
• Port of the Fast Multipole Method
• Port of liquid crystal simulation
• Mesh test diagnostic program
• Simulator for multiC++ language

Arthur D. Little, Inc.

Location: Cambridge, MA. Position: Consultant. Environmental, Health and Safety Practice, North America Risk Segment. Full time, 4/1989 - 11/1996. Part time, 12/1996 - 12/1999.

• Designed, implemented, and maintain FaultrEASE, a fault tree graphics program. The program lets you edit, compute and customize fault trees via an extensive graphical user interface (GUI). FaultrEASE is written in Common Lisp.
• Maintained and updated HAZOPtimizer, a process hazard analysis program. HAZOPtimizer is written in Microsoft C++, using MFC.
• Helped document and test SuperChems, a chemical hazards evaluation tool. Ported SuperChems to Microsoft Windows, using Microsoft C++ with MFC.
• Provided marketing and technical support for RiskWorks, our line of safety and risk analysis software.
• Evaluated performance of a proprietary massively parallel computer architecture for turnkey finite difference applications.
• Ported the Computerized Reuters' Indexing System (CRIS) from Symbolics Genera 7.0 to Common Lisp. CRIS is a natural language parser and concept-extractor.

Thinking Machines Corporation

Location: Cambridge, MA. Position: Research Engineer. Responsible for several projects involving the Connection Machine (CM), a massively parallel computer with up to 65,536 processors. 2/1986 - 10/1988.

• Maintained the sequencer simulator, and modified it to work with 32-bit floating-point chips. (The sequencer is a dedicated hardware controller for the CM.)
• Updated the PARIS simulator from Release 2 to Release 3, which required a major rewrite. (PARIS is a PARallel Instruction Set; the CM's assembly language.)
• Debugged and maintained CM hardware.

The MITRE Corporation

Location: McLean, VA. Position: Member of Technical Staff (co-op position). Researched and prepared a report for DOT/UMTA which compared features of several Automated Guideway Rapid Transit (AGRT) systems. 1/1983 - 8/1983.

Systems and Applied Sciences Corporation

Location: Bladensburg, MD. Position: Programmer/Analyst. Maintained a software package called CIPS (Coastal Zone Color Scanner, Information Processing Subsystem) which collects and processes data from the NIMBUS-7 weather satellite. 10/1980 - 10/1981.

Population Connection, Greater Boston Chapter

Editor of The Crowded Planet, the chapter's bimonthly newsletter. 7/1999 - 9/2001.
Webmaster. 9/1997 - 9/2001.

Unitarian Universalists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Webmaster. 3/1999 - present.

Asheville Citizen-Times

Guest columnist, focusing on environmental issues in Western North Carolina. I was promised this position on a six month trial basis, and I wrote 20 articles. Unfortunately, my column never ran due to budget problems. Some of the articles were later published in other forms. 1/1999 - 7/1999.

Languages

Object Oriented: C++, LISP (including Common LISP, CLOS, MCL, Allegro CL), Java.

Other: C, Windows API, Macintosh Toolbox, TEX, LaTEX, HTML, FORTRAN, PASCAL.

Wrote a high level language (*BASIC) and several assemblers. Prefer using the object oriented programming (OOP) style.

Operating Systems

Windows (98, NT, 2000), DOS, UNIX, Mac OS.

General

Familiar with parallel computer architectures and programming methods - especially as used with SIMD designs like the Connection Machine, the MPP, and the Xplor.

Graduate

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. MSEE, May 1985. GPA: 3.70. Thesis title: "The MPP Pyramid". Designed and constructed a prototype hierarchical parallel computer (called the GAM Pyramid) for artificial vision research. Served as lead engineer, and coordinated a group of students who worked on the project over a 2-year period. Advisor: Prof. David H. Schaefer, designer of the original Massively Parallel Processor (MPP) at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

Undergraduate

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. BSCE, May 1980.

The Massively Parallel Processor has evolved into a machine called Blitzen. A simulator for this machine is available; see the Blitzen Simulator Tutorials. This simulator is being used for research in Pyramid Image Processing.

My electronic mail address is gwilcox@buncombe.main.nc.us