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1st June 2010 |
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Alan H. Bond |
| PERSONAL HISTORY: |
Home address: 1, Ormonde Terrace, London NW8 7LP, United Kingdom Tel: (+44)-(0)207-483-2192, Mobile phone: (+44)-(0)7944-915-353 email: alan.bond@exso.com UK Company address: Exso Ltd, 6, Fleet Close, Page Hill, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire MK18 1YN, United Kingdom, Tel: (+44)-(0)207-483-2192, Mobile phone: (+44)-(0)7944-915-353 email: alan.bond@exso.com USA University address: Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, NPI C8-849, Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA business telephone: (+1)-310-206-8100, email: ABond@mednet.ucla.edu USA address: 2118 Wilshire Blvd., No. 489, Santa Monica, California 90403, USA home telephone: (+1)-310-828-8719 USA Company address: Expert Software Inc., 2118 Wilshire Blvd., No. 489, Santa Monica, California 90403, USA company telephone: (+1)-310-828-8719 Email: alan.bond@exso.com Webpage: http://www.exso.com Date of birth: 18th October 1940. Place of birth: Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom Marital status: divorced, two children |
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EDUCATION: |
B.A. Physics (First class honours), Magdalen College, Oxford University, 1961 M.A. Oxford University, 1966 Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University, 1966 |
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: |
Present positions: (2010 - present) Visitor, Computing Science Department, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ. (2007 - present) Research Neuroscientist (Faculty Position), Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095. Previous positions: (1966) Research Assistant in Computing Methods, Mathematics Department, Royal Holloway College, London University (1966-7) Research Scientist, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh (1967-8) Visiting Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh (1968-9) Acting Assistant Professor, Engineering Department, UCLA, Los Angeles (1969 - 1984) Lecturer (Corresponds to Assistant and Associate Professor) in Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London University (tenured from 1973) (1982) Visiting Research Professor, Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (1983-5) Senior Research Scientist, Electrical Engineering Systems Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (1985-1991) Principal Development Engineer, University of California, Los Angeles (Feb-Aug 1992) Sony Sabbatical Chair, Sony Computer Science Research Laboratory, Tokyo (Sept 1992-Jan 1994) Member of Technical Staff, Computer Systems Research Department, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles (Feb 1994 - Dec 1994) Visiting Researcher, Division of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, and Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles (Sept 1995 - June 1996) Instructor, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles. (Sept 1996 - 2004) Senior Scientist, Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. (Sept 1998 - 2004) Lecturer in Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. (2005 - 2009) Specialist in Neuroscience, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Visiting Posts: (Summer 1973) Visiting Lecturer, Mackerere University, Kampala, Uganda (Summer 1980) Visiting Researcher, Computer Science Department, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh (Summer 1981) Engineer, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego (1991) Esprit DAI project IMAGINE. Logic Programming Group, Imperial College, London, PI: Keith Clark. (2005 - 2007) Visiting professor, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland |
| HONORS and SPECIAL AWARDS: |
Demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1958-1961 Jenner Exhibition at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1960 |
| RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS RECEIVED: |
Funded Projects in the USA 1. Intelligent Software for the Control of a Submersible Vehicle in carrying out Pipeline Surveillance and Inspection. Funded by Naval Oceans Systems Center, San Diego, 1983-4. Contract No. N66001-83-C-0039. Value: $22,000. Objective: Design and implement simple rule-based control system in C for the NOSC Free Swimming Submersible. Results: System delivered to NOSC. 2. A Knowledge Based System for the Design of Testable VLSI Circuit Chips. Principal Investigator: Professor Melvin Breuer. Funded by DARPA. 1985. Objective: Develop methods and system for automatically transforming circuits into testable forms Results: Developed logic method for representing testable circuit techniques. 3. Expert Systems in Computer Aided Design, focus on Sheet Metal Design, Funded by Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company, Burbank, California. Principal Investigator Professor Michel A. Melkanoff, Associate Investigator A. H. Bond. 1986-1988. $55,000 per year. Results: CADLOG Intelligent CAD/CAM system developed and application programs written for Automatic model construction, Automatice dimensioning, Design Checking and Process Planning. 4. Artificial Intelligence methods for the Hypercube, Funded by California Institute of Technology, Principal investigator: David Jefferson, Co-Principal: Investigator Alan H. Bond. 1986-June 1990, $30,000 per year. Results: Study of computer vision on hypercube, DAI survey and bibliography written, DAI logical model developed of commitment and collaborative logic. Simple parallel CAD/CAM system implemented in Strand and run on Symmetry parallel computer. 5. An Intelligent System for Automatic Generation of Manufacturing Process Plans, Funded by IMAR, Institute for Manufacturing and Automation Research Co-PI with M.A.Melkanoff(PI), F.Arbab and B. Khoshnevis. 1987-August 1991, $160,000 per year. Results: CADLOG intelligent CAD/CAM system developed and process planning programs in Prolog designed and implemented. 6. Intelligent Simulation Systems for Automated Factories, Funded by the National Science Foundation, Co-PI with M.A.Melkanoff(PI), J.K.Cochran and G.T.Mackulak. 1987-August 1991, $50,000 per year. Results: Intelligent simulation system designed and implemented in Prolog. 7. A Knowledge-based Cost Management System, Funded by IMAR, Institute for Manufacturing and Automation Research. PI: Alan H. Bond, Co-PI: Gordon Shirley, UCLA Graduate School of Management. December 1989-onwards, $50,000 per year for 3 years. Results: Distributed planning method developed (Project model). 8. A Formal Approach for Product Model Information, Funded by the National Science Foundation, Co-PI with Charles Eastman(PI), UCLA Architecture Department. April 1990-onwards. $120,000 per year for 3 years. Results: EDM engineering data model scheme described. 9. Distributed logic programming, Funded by IBM and State of California Microelectronics Initiative. Co-PI with Stott Parker(PI). July 1990 - June 1991. $14,000. Results: Commitment model developed. 10. Knowledge-based systems in design, Funded by The Aerospace Corporation, PI: Alan H. Bond, Co-Pi: Michael O'Brien. 1993-94. Results: Negotiation logic implemented running over software bus among three Unix machines. 11. A real-time human-coupled multiagent system with reactive social organization, based on biological principles. NSF SGER grant. Digital Society and Technologies program. Award No: 9615071. $50,000. August 1996 - July 1997. PI: Pietro Perona, Co-Pi: Alan Bond. My brain model was ported to the Caltech system and a number of efficiency methods were investigated, resulting in the cycle time decreasing from 6 seconds to 100 milliseconds. 12. Human-computer interaction with virtual social groups, Funded by NSF. Digital Society and Technologies program. Grant No: IRI-9812714. $292,878. Sept 1998 - August 2001. PI: Pietro Perona, Co-Pi: Alan Bond. Further system improvements were made and further investigations into modeling social interaction. Problem solving mechanisms were also studied and a natural language mechanism due to Kempen was analysed and implemented in the brain model. 13. ERC-CREST Partnership, Towards consumer telepresence, Funded by NSF. Engineering Research Center award. Grant No: EEC-9730980. $299,889. March 15th 1998 - August 2001. PIs: Pietro Perona and Demetri Psaltis, Co-Pi: Alan Bond. Research collaboration with Tennessee State University was fostered by trips to Nashville and also students visiting Caltech on SURF awards. The computer system of the Nomad robot was repaired and a complete new system installed, so that it was controlled by wireless ethernet and onboard linux system. A suite of robot programs in C was installed and Prolog was interfaced, allowing control of the robot from Prolog. A tourguide application was studied and a concept of robot as person developed. This was a collaboration with Matt Ashton. 14. "Eye movement system analysis". Caltech President's Award, funded by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. $40,000. October 2001 - June 2002. PI: Alan Bond. Participated in the design and implementation of a new eye movement measurement system at JPL, initially targeted towards applications for the handicapped. The system was an active infrared system with very high tracking rates capable of following saccades. 15. An investigation into the visual recognition of suspicious intention in human activity, using logical representations and a biologically inspired agent, Funded by the Office of Naval Research, program manager Thomas McKenna, Cognitive, Neural and Social Science and Technology Program. Award No: N000140210900. $140,000. PI: Alain Martin, Co-Pi: Alan Bond, August 2002 - April 2004. Suspicious activity was characterized by visual features. We developed a visual interface to the brain model. 16. IPA for Alan Bond. Funded by the National Institute of Science and Technology. December 15th 2005 - April 30th 2007. $140,000. PI: Alan Bond. Research into cognitive ontologies, and interoperability of systems used in neurology and psychiatry, including automatic interpretation of MRI images, as part of the Healthcare initiative at NIST. 17. IPA for Alan Bond. Funded by the National Institute of Science and Technology. May 1st 2007 - April 30th 2008. $120,000. PI: Alan Bond. Research into logic programming methods in enterprise systems. 18. A computational model of creative problem solving. Funded by the National Science Foundation. August 1st 2007 - July 31th 2008. $91,000. PI: Alan Bond. Research into information processing mechanisms of creativity, derived from a brain-based model of human cognition. Funded Projects in the United Kingdom 1. The Investigation of Learning in a Mobile Robot, Funded by: Science Research Council, 1976-8, Value: $25,000 + overheads, Research Assistant: David Mott, Objective: Investigate a schema learning model based upon Becker's work, Results: Learning system designed and implemented in POP-2, experiments with control of Mark 4 robot demonstrated learning. 2. An Intelligent Camera, Funded by: Central Research Fund of London University, 1978-9, Value: $1500, Research Assistants: Mark Witkowski, Jim Beard and Roger Brown, Objective: To design and implement a low cost CCD camera with interface to 6800 microprocessor and support software, Results: CCD camera constructed and interfaced to 6800, software for handling and processing images in Fortran, explorations in motion parallax measurement. 3. The Investigation of the use of an Array Processor for Scene Analysis, Funded by: Science Research Council, 1978-80, Value: $30,000 + overheads, Research Assistant: Philip Marks, Objective: To show how conventional vision mechanisms could be programmmed on the ICL Distributed Array Processor, Results: Scene Analysis programs for line finding, region extraction and Waltz line labelling of blocks world images implemented. Real time(1/10 sec) performance and high degree of parallelism attained. 4. A Computer System for Robot Control, Funded by: Science Research Council, 1978-81, Value: $50,000 + overheads, Research Assistants: David Mott and Roger Brown, Objective: To implement a hierarchical real time robot control system on two LSI11s, Results: System implemented on three LSI11s and an M6809, assemblers, compilers and operating systems installed, communication software written, software for geometry, sensors and display, analysis of partitioning of robot control function, design for blackboard model control system. 5. The Use of Speech in Robot Control, Funded by: Science Research Council in collaboration with ICL, 1979-82, Value: $70,000 + overheads, Research Assistants: Mark Witkowski, Malcolm Hinsley and Douglas Benn, Objective: ICL to build speech module for isolated word input, QMC to investigate use in robot tasks, Results: Speech system built and delivered by ICL, System interfaced to LSI11 system and debugged, results from systematic expertiments with manipulation protocols. 6. Computer Assistance in Teleoperator Control with emphasis on the Remote Viewing Problem, Funded by: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Harwell, 1979. Value: $35,000 + overheads, Research Assistant: Roger Brown, Objective: To investigate six practical techniques for remote viewing aid. Results: The six visual techniques implemented, an optical positioning system developed and patented, remotely controlled computer assisted robot vehicle (Mark 5) designed and implemented. 7. A Sensor System for Robot Control, Funded by: Science Research Council, 1980-2, Value: $25,000 + overheads, (Funding never taken up but project completed), Research Assistants: Mark Burton, Mark Witkowski and David Barnes, Objective: To design and implement a sensory system for the Mark 5 robot, Results: Design and implementation of infrared and sonar proximity systems for Mark 5 robot and PUMA 600 robot. Software detection and grasping package based on blackboard model 8. Intermediate and High Level Vision using an Array Processor, Funded by Science Research Council, 1980-82, Value: $40,000 + overheads, Research Assistant: Hilary Buxton, Objective: Investigate matching processes on Distributed Array Processor, Results: Graph matching investigated, industrial vision package implemented, new moving edge detector developed and implemented (generalisation of Marr-Hildreth operator to space-time) 9. A Second Generation Industrial Vision System, Funded by Science Research Council in collaboration with Micro Consultants Ltd, 1981-84, Value: $160,000 + $80,000 equipment + overheads, Research Assistants: Roger Brown, Chris Rowbury, David Barnes, Objective: Develop a grey scale industrial vision system with hardware support Results: Vision system developed in software and subjected to systematic performance tests under differing environments, System delivered to industrial partner. |