mayer@cascade.ARPA (Niels Mayer) (03/10/86)
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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.
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Niels Mayer
Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University
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