James Rising 283 Washinton St., #1 Olin Way, #331 Cambridge, MA 02139 Needham, MA 02492 jrising@alum.mit.edu, 617-852-9088 jrising@olin.edu, 781-292-2539 Professional Employment August 2003 - Present: Franklin W. Olin College Electrical Engineering and Computer Science instructor, assisting classes in Discrete Signal Processing, Software Using Images and Sound, and Introductory Electronics. Currently researching robot-human semi-autonomous navigation. Summer 2003: iNeed.com Programming full-time in Java, using Jakarta Struts and MySQL. Summer 2002: Wave Arts, Inc. Programmed full-time, in C, C++, and assembly, developing user-interfaces, signal processing functions, and patent research. Summer 2001: Wave Arts, Inc. Programmed full-time, in C, C++, and assembly. Developed optimized vector library for sound manipulation, including server-client options. Summer 2000: EMC2, Inc. Programmed full-time, mostly in Visual C++ on the front end of products to archive, analyze, and display hardware configuration and databased performance data. Summer 1999: Terascape Software Programmed full-time, on various projects, including work in InstallShield, Unix scripts, Visual Basic, Java, Perl, Microsoft Access, and Oracle. January 1999: DxCG, Inc. Designed report program for summarizing individual cost predictions for Medicare and other models into population-specific statistics. July 1997 - Mar 1998: DxCG, Inc. Translated SAS source code for predicting medical costs into C with an emphasis on speed optimization and code readability. Education 1999 - 2003: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Philosophy. Considerable course work in computer science, mathematics, and engineering. 1996 - 1999: University of Massachusetts at Lowell High school cross-registration: C++, statistics, numerical analysis. Computer Experience Programming Languages: Considerable work in C, C++, Java, Scheme, Assembly, Hypercard, Matlab, SQL, PHP, and HTML Limited experience and work in Basic (QBasic, TrueBasic, Visual Basic), Perl, and SAS Familiarity with many more. Experienced with Macintosh, PC, and Unix/Linux operating systems. Activities Summer 2000: Face Recognition UROP Studied systems, methods, and theories for texture recognition and wavelets, and implemented some of these for the identification of faces. 1999 - Present: Experimental Study Group (ESG) Coordinated several seminars and activities on subjects ranging from future physics to literature readings. Notable Independent Projects 2002 - 2003: Pirate MOO Ran small online LambdaMOO world inspired by a Zippy cartoon; included automated ships, atmospheric effects, and used a map of Earth. 1999 - Present: Evolutionary A.I. System for evolving programs to predict future data. Combined with WWW file collecting program, currently evolving general AI. References Jill Crisman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Olin College Contact at: jill.crisman@olin.edu, (781) 292-2519 Bill Gardner President of Wave Arts, Inc. Contact at: billg@wavearts.com, (781) 646-3794 Source code examples available upon request.