Curriculum Vitae - Current Research
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of Washington
libeled and slandered with malice aforethought to prevent career advancement
and to deny equal employment opportunity.
Investigative Reporting and Exposé
Since 1992, the author has investigated and written several hundred articles on bureaucratic, academic, and elder abuse. He founded Contra Cabal, one of the first electronic magazines to appear on the web, for which he develops the site, writes articles, designs pages, and produces graphics.
Contra Cabal, an electronic magazine containing exposé and satire - probably one of the first to appear on the web - has now published for almost fifteen years. Earlier, it published as email for six years. The hits/month now range between 100,000 and 150,000 with more than a million hits during the past twelve months.
Articles cover ongoing criminal activity by academicians, university administrators, and elder abusers. They describe the actions of corrupt judges and gross misconduct by university and state lawyers also attorneys who file frivolous law suits against tenants in government financially-assisted housing. They outline how administrators use unlawful retaliatory measures and propaganda to destroy the reputations of people who report illegal activity and racism to authorities.
Washington Supreme Court unanimously reversed a lower court decision that effectively allowed prior restraint and defined journalism inquiry as surveillance and harassment. Repeatedly, lawyers could find no fault with content so they personally attacked the author or his genre. A corrupt straw judge imposed prior restraint and jailed him for contempt when he challenged the court decisions as a basic violation of constitutional and human rights. To further coerce him, in consort with other jurists, the judge then arbitrarily transferred him to solitary confinement among murderers and rapists where officials tortured him because he would not remove his web site from a European server.
Readers can find the names of the people who conspired to file the trumped-up charges, some of them connected with University of Washington, at:
http://contracabal.org/005-18-00.html
http://contracabal.org/005-19-00.html
After 111 days incarceration without legal counsel and five years unlawful restriction of movements, Washington Supreme Court unanimously reversed all the lower court decisions that related to prior restraint and imprisonment; however, constitutional and human rights issues related to personal movement and travel harassment still await resolution on the international scene.
That prior restraint, and restrictions on personal mobility, became a matter of international concern. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU - Seattle), International Federation of Journalists (IFJ- Brussels), National Union of Journalists (NUJ - London), American Society of Authors and Editors (ASAE - New York), and Seattle Weekly all filed amicus curiae briefs with Washington Supreme Court in support of the successful First Amendment stance.
His published work in the print media for more than sixty years has received no challenge relating to accuracy. People, among them elected judges and lawyers upon whom the public should be able to rely, have tried to stop him publishing information on politically sensitive issues. Universities have unlawfully removed computer access to cover up their malfeasance and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute police ambushed and unlawfully arrested him on trumped up charges when he visited the campus to address legitimate complaints.
Development of Algorithms for Aesthetic Balance in Technical Communication
Design practices founded in the graphic arts tradition cannot be translated directly to electronic online environments because of the dynamic aspects of electronic systems. Although the basic geometries apply generally, they do not apply specifically to dynamic interaction, such as with time and motion. It is therefore necessary to create standards for efficient screen design and convert knowledge of printing geometries to the new media. Industrial standards are needed to overcome the problems associated with vertical system integration, which is primarily the merging and formatting of alphanumeric and graphic information. At present, the design of the majority of text and graphics systems, and programs, is strongly influenced by engineering criteria derived primarily from computer theory and technology. These criteria generally lack integrity because they place a preponderance on electronic data processing expediency, and are virtually devoid of the aesthetic components so essential to quality typography and graphic design. If the engineering influence is diminished by an increased use of user-oriented systems and program design, then algorithms could be constructed that are predicated upon aesthetic and pragmatic criteria: the result of writer/designer evaluation and judgment. Empirical research data, that has been accumulated over the centuries, could be incorporated into the design and development of these new algorithms and programs, which would insure a balance between the conceptual and perceptual components in the processing of text and graphics.
Generic and Implicit Encoding of Data
Generally, the processing of rhetorical and graphic information involves writing and designing material, subject to rules predetermined by an algorithm. The material is then translated into code strings by using generic codes or metalanguages in preparation for computerized composition. Implicit codes (ImpCode), different from generic codes, are designed to allow transformation of complex technical information at the specific comprehension levels of transcribers. To do this, one must understand the anxiety patterns of the transcribers, who use sophisticated computerized equipment, as well as analyze interactive human behavior and consider a number of ergonomic factors. Therefore, to efficiently and implicitly encode data for typesetting, it is necessary to consider,both linguistically and visually, the constituent structure of modular writing. Then, those problems that are only being addressed by built-in text search capabilities can be reconsidered morphologically. Current research includes the structure of data bases suitable for both hard and soft applications, the dynamics and control of visual elements in both applications, and implicit and generic encoding of telecommunicated data for typesetting.
Recent activity has included three months spent in Germany and England researching verbal and visible language relationships and technical communication applications.
Map Information Display and Analysis Systems
Research is based on typical user interaction and navigation techniques, including graphic and geometric conformity, typography, color enhancement, and vernacular phrasing.
Corporate and Institutional Identity Programs
Another facet is research into monogrammatic logotype design, which follows traditional geometric grid constructs and Cartesian principles, and can be easily digitized for use in desktop publishing and computer-aided design (CAD) environments.
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