Education
B.S.,
Mechanical Eng., 1958 Illinois Institute of Technology
Ph.D.,
Mathematics,
1964 University of Tennessee
Positions
Held
Instructor of Mathematics
Illinois
Institute of Technology, 1959
-- 60.
Instructor
of Mathematics
University
of Tennessee, 1960
-- 61.
Consultant
Mathematical
Analysis and Gas Dynamics Section, Q
Oak
Ridge, Tenn.
Atomic
Energy Commission, 1962
-- 63.
Fellow
Oak
Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies,
Oak
Ridge Tenn.
1963
-- 64.
Assistant
Professor of Mathematics
Department
of Mathematics
University
of Georgia, 1964
-- 69.
Associate
Professor of Mathematics
Department
of Mathematics
Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University
1969
-- 71.
Associate
Professor of Mathematics
Department
of Mathematics
University
of Houston, 1971
-- 75.
Founding
Editor
Houston
Journal of Mathematics
University
of Houston, 1975.
Managing
Editor
Houston
Journal of Mathematics
University
of Houston, 1975
-- 80, 1984 -- 89.
Professor
of Mathematics
Department
of Mathematics
University
of Houston, 1975
--.
Senior
Research Associate
National
Research Council
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
Johnson
Space Center, 1978
-- 80.
National
Research Council
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
Headquarters,
Washington DC, 1980
-- 81.
Visiting
Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Emory
University, 1983
-- 84.
Research
Member
Institute for Defense Analyses, TSSI
Princeton,
June,
1990 – September, 1992.
Distinguished
Mathematician
National
Security Agency, TSSI
Fort
Meade, Maryland, January, 2000 – August, 2000.
Acting
Director, Legacy of R. L. Moore Project
Educational
Advancement Foundation
Austin,
Texas, August, 2000 – December,
2000.
Visiting
Professor of Mathematics
Department
of Mathematics
University
of Texas, January,
2001—May, 2001.
Director,
Clear Creek Basin Authority,
Agency
of the State of Texas 1973
-- 76
President of the Board of Directors 1973 -- 74
Awards
Received
(1.)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Award
Certificate of
Recognition for:
Creative
development of a technical innovation,
ÒDynamic
Pattern Matcher Using Incomplete DataÓ,
November,
1988.
(2.)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Award
Certificate of
Recognition for:
Disclosure
of an inventive contribution entitled
ÒDynamic
Pattern Matcher Using Incomplete Data,Ó
April,
1991.
(3.)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Award
Certificate of
Recognition for:
Creative
development of a scientific contribution which
has
been determined to be of significant value in the
advancement
of the aerospace technology program of
NASA,
March,
1993.
(4.)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Award
Certificate of
Recognition for:
ÒLow
Resolution and High Resolution Utilizing
Hexagons
Organized in a Tree Structure to Identify Two
Dimensional
Objects.Ó
July,
1995.
Space
Act Award,
National Aeronautics
and Space Administration Inventions and
Contributions Board,
for:
ÒA
Three Dimensional Euclidean Space Tessellation and
Analysis,Ó
March,
1999.
Patents
(1.)
ÒDynamic Pattern Matcher Using Incomplete Data.Ó
(with
Lui Wang, NASA/JSC).
Patent
Number: 5,189,709,
Date
Issued:
February 23, 1993.
(2.)
ÒOil Well Pumping Mechanism Providing Water Removal Without LiftingÓ.
Patent
Number: 5,697,448,
Date
Issued: December
16, 1997.
Federal
Research Funding
1986
– 2003 $
517,923.00
Foundation
Funding
2005
– 2006
$ 12,500.00