Resume for Hadon Nash

158 Kittoe Drive #B, Mountain View, CA 94043
(703) 830-9436, cell: (571) 723-5680
hadon@acm.org, www.AdaptiveMachines.com

CAREER OBJECTIVE

To build amazing software, software that seems impossible.

SKILLS

• Object Oriented Software: 10 years experience, Java, Smalltalk, C++, Design Patterns, Use Cases, Extreme Programming, Sun Certified Java Programmer, IBM Certified Smalltalk Programmer.
• Interoperable Software: HTML, XML, WSDL Web Services, Unix, Java, Jini, SQL, ECMAScript, Denotational Semantics, Opensource (Linux, Eclipse, Apache, JUnit, SAX, JDOM, XALAN, Struts, OJB, BLAST).
• Customizable Software: Code Tables, Script Interpreters, Components, WYSIWYG Editors, Quasi-Literals.
• Secure Software: Creative Attacks, Capabilities, Certificates, Cryptography, Obfuscation, Distributed Stateless Servers.
• Scientific Software: Physical Simulation (Rigid, Flexible, Fluid, Particle, Thermodynamic), Optimization (Linear, Nonlinear, Adaptive), Genome Search (BLAST, HMMER, PAUP).
• Adaptive Software: Neural Nets, Genetic Algorithms, Rule Systems, Prediction, Credit Assignment, Auctions, Property, Risk.
• Mathematics: Kolgomorov Complexity, Information Theory, Cryptology.
• Economics: Incentive Engineering, Asymmetric Knowledge, Game Theory.

PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

• Led team to first place in programming contest, 1985.
• Achieved evolution of life in a personal computer, 1986.
• Built a gear ratio mechanism with only levers, 1989.
• Built the tallest paper tower in Structures competition, 1990.
• Achieved spontaneous order in simulated market, 1993.
• Defended Dennett's "Consciousness Explained", 1994.
• Crafted ACM programming contest problem, 2000. 

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Enjoy discussing theoretical frontiers.
• Comfortable with physics, math, and computer algorithms.
• Can follow complex discussions and produce careful arguments.
• Committed to free thought and open society.
• Always try to be amiable, courteous, and patient.
• Open-minded and optimistic!

EXPERIENCE

Qbit LLC., Research Team Lead, October '04 to present

• Responsible for Qbit's Synthetic Intelligence research team and projects.
• Architected a stochastic rule learning system for pattern discovery.
• The system evolves rules using a genetic algorithm with Bayesian credit assignment.
• The system discovers optimal codings for certain data sets.

Adaptive Trade Inc., Software Engineer, October '02 to October '04

• Built the numeric preprocessor and server for Adaptive Trade's "Pipeline Optimizer" using Java, C#, Axis, SOAP, WSDL, RMI, and JavaSpaces.
• Built the persistence and JSP's for the "Bid Optimizer" web application.
• Built the "Constraint Debugger" with a Swing GUI and simple query engine.
• Invented: "Compact XML DOM", and "Optimization Enabled Objects".

Adaptive Machines, Chief Architect, November '01 to October '02

• Initiated an independent research and development project.
• Developed a coherent vision for WYSIWYG interactive programming.
• Designed an interactive programming language (with visible, live prototypes).
• Designed an interactive IDE (with uniform use cases, source code, and tests).
• Designed a mechanical VM (with reversible, geometric clockwork).

Parabon Computation Inc., Scientific Computing Engineer, October '00 to November '01

• Implemented the "BLAST" heuristic search algorithm in Java.
• Implemented the network delivery for Parabon's "Application Distributor".
• Java BLAST runs on Parabon's "internet distributed supercomputer".
• Delivered JavaOne technical session on "Distributed Scientific Computing".
• Published paper "Large-Scale Sequence Analysis" in IEEE BIBE.

IBM Corp, Software Designer, July '95 to October '00

• Designed a reuse library in Smalltalk (inspected by John Vlisides).
• Designed subsystems for IBM's "Open Justice" court case management system (persistence, case history, financials, and UI control).
• Implemented the client and server with Java, Swing, RMI, JDBC, and XML. 
• The system was deployed in Illinois in the year 2000.
• Extended the system to support a web UI for a second customer.

George Mason University, Research Assistant, January '93 to March '95

• Designed and implemented the GUI for "OOPIC" simulation software.
• Designed 2-d and 3-d windows for interactive visualization.
• OOPIC is efficient and extensible (implemented in C++).
• OOPIC began beta testing with physicists in '95.
• Published "A Toolkit for Evolutionary Computation" in IEEE Tools with AI.

Group Technologies Inc., Software Designer, May '90 to December '90

• Tested "Aspects", the companies first software product.
• Designed and implemented the password protection for Aspects.
• Aspects enables groups to edit documents collaboratively.
• Aspects won a 1991 MacUser award for software excellence.

Apple Computer Inc., Summer Intern, May '88 to September '89

• Built components for "Playground" educational software for Apple's Vivarium.
• Playground enables children to design simulations graphically.
• Presented paper at Los Alamos Emergent Computation Conference.
• Discovered a new theory of knowledge in complex systems.
• Tested the theory using the Smalltalk programming language.
• Published the theory in IEEE CompCon 1989.

EDUCATION

George Mason University, May '94, MS CS, GPA: 4.0

• Masters Thesis: "Derby II: An Economic Evolutionary Algorithm"
• Courses include: Operating Systems, Language Processors, Artificial Intelligence, Analysis of Algorithms, Machine Learning, Object Oriented Programming, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Evolutionary Computation.

Duke University, May '90, BSE EE, GPA: 3.4

• Graduation with Distinction, Deans List 1987-88, Cum Laude.
• Courses include: Principles of Chemistry, Nature of Life, General Physics, Modern Learning Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Models of Cognition, Adaptive Behavior, Principles of Genetics, Data Structures, Probability, Comparative Biomechanics, Programming Languages, Pattern Recognition, Digital Computer Design, Structure (natural and man-made), Knowledge and Certainty.

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