From: steve@Advansoft.COM (Steve Savitzky)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: The Mandelbear resumes (pun intended)
Date: 1 Sep 92 00:48:58 GMT
Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA

There is a popping sound near the bar as the Mandelbear appears in his
usual configuration as a vaguely ursine, three-dimensional cross-
section of a four-dimensional fractal.  He looks even fuzzier than
usual, being rather tired and about a month behind on the Net.  He
puts a dollar on the bar.  "Genever, Mike; make it a double."

Mike pours some greenish liquid from a red ceramic bottle and adds a
twist of lemon.  "How was the vacation?"

"Great--went to Connecticut and New York and Maine and ate lots of
lobster.  Then we came back and I got *very* busy trying to start a
new Computing Resources group.  And today we found out that our jobs
go away on October 15.  Actually, they say they *might* keep a few
people around to do 'research', but anyone who would stay and take a
25% pay cut instead of their severence package would have to be pretty
desperate.  I get the feeling they're hoping everyone will leave,
which is exactly what I expect to happen.

"So I'm job hunting.  I'm looking for something in the SF Bay Area,
preferably CS research or advanced development, object-oriented, all
that good stuff.  Wish me luck."

He goes over to the bulletin board and posts three sheets of paper.
"The last page is sort of optional--it lists my current research
interests and informal publications, like the net.

"Oh, yes--my email address will stay good for a month and a half
unless I find a new job sooner, but I'll be getting an account on some
public access system pretty soon."  He goes over to table 28X, picks
up Snuggles (his guitar), and starts noodling.  People who have heard
it before quickly recognize a song called "Mushrooms".

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R E S U M E 					STEPHEN R. SAVITZKY

						343 Leigh Av.
						San Jose, CA 95128
						(408)294-6492 home
						(408)727-3357 work
Interests:
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I am looking for a position in computer science research or advanced
development (preferably with a strong research component), and am particularly
interested in object-oriented programming environments, file systems and
operating systems; Hypertext; and windowing environments.

I have a MS degree in computer science and over twenty years of industry
experience including CPU architecture and the design and implementation of
programming languages, operating system kernels, text editors, and other
applications.

Experience:
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Counting part-time work during school, I have been working in the
computer industry since 1963.  I have been using object-oriented
design techniques ever since I first encountered them in 1972.

1986-present:	Advansoft Research Corp.	      		Scientist

    X Window, Motif, C++, OOP, Emacs, Unix ``guru''.  C++ class library
    including arrays, hash tables, runtime class descriptors, object-oriented
    files, and graphics.  Visualization program for IC tester output data.
    User-interface software for IC testers.  Several compiler-and
    language-related projects, including a locally-developed Smalltalk (with X
    graphics), another experimental object-oriented language, and a parser
    generator (all with one other person).  Ported locally-developed graphics
    toolkit to X.  Several X applications including user interface prototyper,
    graphics demo, and toolkit demo.

1977-1986:	Zilog, Inc.		      Staff Engr / Principal Engr.

    Portable, retargetable macro assemblers for entire Zilog line.  Portable
    object-file utilities (including linker) using IEEE standard file format
    (MUFOM).  Designed ZRTS real-time operating system; implemented kernel,
    logical I/O system, terminal driver, debugger.  Meta-assembler for IC
    tester microcode.  Member of chip architecture committee.

1975-1977:	American Microsystems, Inc.	    Sr. Eng. Programmer.

    Designed and implemented most of the software for a 6800-based
    microprocessor development system, including: Display-oriented text
    editor, logic analyzer; ROM-based monitor, I/O drivers, display-oriented
    debugger; Terminal emulator and other utilities.

1972-1974:	Xerox Palo Alto Research Center     Contract Programmer

    Experimental management information system in INTERLISP.
    Utility routines for Smalltalk 72.

1969-1972:	Stanford AI Lab 		    Research Assistant
    (concurrent with graduate school at Stanford)

    Modifications to existing text editor on PDP-10 (SOS).  Experimental
    display-oriented text editor.  Utility routines for Lisp.


Resume			page 2			Stephen R. Savitzky


Education:
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BA, Mathematics		1969	Carleton College, Northfield, MN
MS, Computer Science	1971	Stanford University, Stanford, CA
    (Passed qualifying exams for PhD)

Publications:
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    Book:  "Real-Time Microprocessor Systems," Van Nostrand, 1985.

    Conference papers on ZRTS (Wescon and Midcon, 1983), and
    Cross Software Development under UNIX (Electro, 1985).

    Chapter on ZRTS in the book "Microprocessor Operating Systems"
    edited by John Zarrella, Microcomputer Applications, 1981.

Associations:
------------

    Association for Computing Machinery
    IEEE, IEEE Computer Society
    IEEE Computer Society standards working groups P695 and P694.

    Toastmasters International.

    Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.

Languages and Operating Systems:
-------------------------------

    C, C++, Smalltalk, Lisp, Pascal, Fortran, Algol, Basic.
    Assembly language for Z80, Z8000, 6800, PDP-10, others.
    Some familiarity with Ada, Prolog, SNOBOL, Logo, and others.
    Unix, MS-DOS, CP/M, VMS, and others.
    Home computers: PC-XT clone, Macintosh II, Zilog Z80 system.

Personal Data:
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    Born 1947 March 13.
    Married, US citizen, two children.
    Hobbies:  personal computing, science fiction, songwriting, 
      carpentry.


Resume			page 3 			Stephen R. Savitzky

Research:
--------

I am presently thinking seriously about the following research topics,
and would welcome the opportunity to further pursue any or all of them:

o A formalization for proto-objects (``subjects'') as functions from
  attributes to values.  This effectively makes an object-oriented database
  the dual of a relational database, and points in the direction of a
  functional object-oriented language.

o A unified view of directories, files, and file contents as collections of
  objects, so as to make {\em all} machine-readable data accessible to all
  applications through a single file-system-like interface, in effect unifying
  the ideas of object-oriented databases, hypertext, and file systems.

o Techniques for dealing with loosely-structured data and data that can be
  viewed as having multiple structures, including the ideas embodied in
  frame-based AI languages and classless object-oriented languages such as
  Self.

o User interfaces for browsing through a collection of linked objects.

o Visualization of multi-dimensional objects.  (I have written a shareware
  program to display n-dimensional wireframe objects.)

o Software for computer-aided songwriting and song typesetting (songs have a
  rather different set of requirements from either pure music or pure text).


Related Informal Publications
-----------------------------

I have also written Usenet articles, essays, and songs on

o Pen-based computers, especially the possibility of constructing large
  displays by using small flat-screen computers as tiles.

o The economic and political implications of inexpensive global networking, in
  which the free transfer of information is impossible to prevent, and
  organizations can transcend the traditional boundaries of time, space, and
  national borders.

o The ``colonization of Cyberspace,'' and the development of on-line shared
  virtual worlds.

o The applications of virtual reality technology to social interaction.

o The applicability of the traditional folklore of magic and the supernatural
  to the teaching and popularization of computer networking and programming.
  (I am presently writing a non-fiction book based on this idea.)

o The possible advantages of the ``hacker'' mind-set to space
  commercialization and colonization.



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