mayer@cascade.ARPA (Niels Mayer) (03/10/86)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ N I E L S M A Y E R Home: Office: Alpha Delta Phi Center for Integrated Systems 375 Campus Dr. Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 Stanford, CA 94305 (415) 323-2401 (415) 725-3701 {ucbvax,decvax}!decwrl!glacier!mayer mayer@su-amadeus.arpa Objective: A challenging summer internship in the fields of ar- tificial intelligence or cognitive science research. Particular areas of interest: natural language under- standing systems, programming languages and environ- ments for AI, robotics and computer vision, machine learning, neural models for non-deterministic compu- tation, and expert systems. Education: 9/82 - 6/87: Stanford University: M.S. Computer Science: Symbolic and Heuristic Computation. Coursework includes: Computational Models for the Syntax of Natural Language (T. Winograd), Prolog and Natural Language Analysis (F. Pereira), Functional Programming (J. Williams), Artificial Intelligence (M. Genesereth), Building Expert Systems (M. Genesereth), etc. Stanford University: B.S., Electrical Engineering: Computers. Stanford University: B.A. Psychology: Cognition. Coursework concentrates on Cognitive Science: Cogni- tive Psychology (B. Tversky), Neuropsychology (J. Wine), Learning in Man and Machine (G. Bower/P. Rosenbloom), Eye Movements (M. Pavel), Cognition and Computability (P. Johnson-Laird), Cognitive Architec- tures (P. Rosenbloom), etc. 9/81 - 6/82: University of California, Irvine (concurrent with high school). Academic Honors: Seventh Place - Forty First National Westinghouse Science Talent Search -- $5000 scholarship. Researched, designed, and built a high speed waveform recorder/signal analyzer. Full scholarship for Summer Science Program at the Weizmann Institute of Technology, Rehovot, Israel. Worked in a research group doing computer-aided image analysis of microscopic biological samples. Experience: 1/85 - Present: Stanford University, Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford, CA. RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Systems programming for Prof. Brian Reid and Dr. Harold Ossher. Working on the GRID, a set of software tools used to implement, structure, document, and maintain large modular (object-oriented) programs. These tools will eventu- ally create a programming environment allowing teams of programmers to create large modular programs with an enforced and documented module structure, while providing the compilation- and revision-control features of the Unix MAKE and RCS programs. Many of the program structuring concepts from the GRID pro- gram are being applied in the design of a new object-oriented programming language (FABLE) for specifying integrated circuit fabrication processes. 6/84 - 9/84: 6/83 - 9/83: AST Research, Inc., Irvine, Ca. DESIGN ENGINEER: Designed expansion boards for the IBM Personal Computer: projects included a multifunc- tion memory board, a multifunction hard-disk inter- face, token passing and Ethernet LAN hardware. Some of these products are presently sold worldwide. 1/84 - 6/84: Stanford University, Department of Psychology, Stan- ford, CA. RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Designed software for cognitive psychology experiments in categorization and knowledge representation. Developed computer models of neuronal-synaptic behavior to establish an under- standing of the neurological basis for learning and memory. Researched human word recognition, a possi- ble theoretical basis for machine understanding of text and speech. Consulted on microcomputer hardware interfacing. 1/83 - 6/83: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science, Stanford, CA. RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Designed and assembled hardware for robotics and computer vision research. 6/82 - 9/82: California Institute of Technology, Kerkhoff Marine Lab, Corona del Mar, CA. RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Designed and built hardware for automated DNA sequence imaging using radioactive tracers. Work in analog front-end design, analog- to-digital conversion, and minicomputer interfacing. 6/79 - 9/81: University of California at Irvine, Department of Physics, Irvine CA. RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Designed, tested, and build ana- log and digital circuitry for particle physics exper- iments. Programmed microcomputer for data acquisi- tion and analysis. Additional Information: Programming Languages: LISP, Modula-2, Prolog, Pas- cal, FP, MRS, Snobol, ADA, BASIC, FORTRAN, and 68000 Assembly. Operating Systems: UNIX, TOPS-20, and MS-DOS. Foreign Languages: French, German. Member, Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. Athletics: Stanford Ski Team. Mountain biking. Road biking. Music: electric and acoustic guitar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Niels Mayer Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University uucp: {ucbvax,decvax}!decwrl!glacier!mayer arpa: mayer@su-amadeus.arpa