alt.job

alternative job paths I could of taken

this pages helps better explain my short work timeline on my main page:

The '.'s in this 'timeline' are jobs I was offered but didn't take.

Sometimes this can also be instructive of ones interests &abilities.

There are other people that I've talked to that I don't list here.

In grad school I was offered work w/the Kn-Based-Engineering-Resarch-Lab; but

was also offered the chance to be the sole then cheif developer of an expert-system*.

After living 1/2time in CU and working w/kbs.ai.uiuc.edu I was 'offered' work as

a lisp developer w/in walking distance of where I lived; but the bubble popped.

They are called onshored.net and they kept up some great (opensrc) lisp software.

I was offered work at an interesting group at Ford Financial. I offered to work it

for a few years, but they needed me for longer, but re-advertised w/in 2yrs.

I worked a bit on a STA w/ANL.gov then to Boston/Veriozon's old gte-labs.

I was offered a/nother STA w/anl/U-Chicago's Social-Science (sim) head, but am

still working too much on my bio/info/etc work, incl. going after a NSF grant.

DieselPoint was a recommendation from a grad-school/data-mining friend, the

work looked interesting, but my bioinformatics work ended up being still viable.

AI company lineage

I've worked for 2 of 3 of a long line of Rule-Based/Expert System companies

Inference Corp (80s/before my time) => Brightware.com (90s) (field Kn-Eng and worked w/dev) => Mindbox.com (00s) (back for a contract)

Each time the company tried to go w/a 'product' the consulting force went to form another company.

This line of technology&people has had more of a showing at the InnovativeApplicationsIn-AI than any other group.

They have always kept the AE language, which has spawned NASA's CLIPS, and then JESS.

very early programming

I started programming very early which lead to a job as soon as I was legally able. It was in a science env; which helped start/set-ing my path.

theme

A common theme in all my work; is making tools to let people move beyond there present abilities.

This includes myself and my work. Which means if I fulfill your needs, and you don't have something else;

then I'm very happy to have put myself out of that job; and move on to the next bit of interesting work.

motivation

I've been offered lots-o-$ before and turned it down, because that isn't the only motivation.

In an effort to communicate; I'd suggest sharing surveys like this.

Also: work-traction='you feel that different amnts of effort will be noticed'&mv things along

make ASSumptions explicit

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