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I am Frank Heile and this is my personal website. I will talk about subjects that interest me in and I will also talk about some of my accomplishments.

Subjects that interest me in include:

• Theories of Consciousness
• Physics - including Particle Physics, Astrophysics & Cosmology
• The TED Conferences (TED=Technology, Entertainment and Design)

Some of my accomplishments include:

• A Bachelor's degree and a Masters degree in Physics from MIT in 4 years.
• A PhD from Stanford in Physics. My thesis advisor was Martin Perl who received a Nobel Prize in 1995 for discovering the Tau lepton. My thesis was a small contribution to the work for which he received the Nobel prize. That thesis resulted in the following publication:
  • ANOMALOUS e+e - AND mu+mu- EVENTS PRODUCED IN e+e - ANNIHILATION ( SLAC-LBL Collab., F.B. Heile et al.Phys. Lett. B 138 (1978), p. 189.)
• After obtaining my PhD in Physics, I worked for 24 years as a software engineer and in software engineering management.
  • The first 10 years were in the field of medical imaging for Varian Associates, Diasonics and DigiRad (a failed startup)
  • Then for 14 years I worked in the field of Electrical CAD software development for Altera Corporation - eventually as a Director of Software Engineering.
    • While at Altera, I generated two publications:
      • Hybrid product term and LUT based architectures using embedded memory blocks by Frank Heile and Andrew Leaver
      • Programmable memory blocks supporting content-addressable memory by Frank Heile, Andrew Leaver and Kerry Veenstra
    • From my work at Altera I am the inventor on 46 patents. Of these 46 patents, there are:
      • 11 patents where I was the sole inventor,
      • 15 patents where I was one of small group of inventors and
      • 20 patents where I was part of a larger group of inventors that developed a new programmable logic chip architecture.