Jonathan Schull on One Page

         Recent bio: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/p2pweb2001/view/e_spkr/1017

Biological Psychologist, Experimentalist, Educator, and Scholar 

[sigma]         B.A.  Reed College 1975

[sigma]         Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1980

[sigma]         Associate Editor, Journal of General Evolution

[sigma]         Professor of Biological Psychology, Haverford College 1980-1992 (with tenure)

[sigma]         Research:  Biological Rhythms, Data Visualization, Animal Behavior
and Metacognition, Complex Adaptive Systems (nervous systems,
species, groups, enterprises, internets, societies)

[sigma]         Academic CV at home.earthlink.net/~jschull/schullcv.htm

Founder, President, Chief Scientist SoftLock.com, Rochester and Maynard MA  (1992-June 2002)

[sigma]         Founder (in 1992) and Chief Scientist (through 2001)  SoftLock.com and Digital Goods
(NASDAQ: DIGS; key players in Steven Kingís e-publication of Riding the Bullet during
the Great E-book Boom of 1999; doors closed in May 2001)

[sigma]         Author of seminal patent on Digital Rights Management / Information Economy US 5,509,070
on ìsuperdistributionîócopyright protection through copy-encouragement and
e-commerce, (filed 1992, issued 1996).

[sigma]         Information Tracking patent US 6,266,654 (filed 1996, issued 2001) on detection, analysis,
and exploitation of ìsoftware lineagesî produced when digital objects such as files and
messages are reproduced and redistributed.

[sigma]         ìAdapting Softwareî patent (filed 1996, pending) discloses methods by which commercial
and other software products can be made to mutate and adapt through ìnatural selectionî
as they proliferate through information ecologies.

[sigma]         Other patents pending

[sigma]         Macroscope Manifesto: New Approaches to Information Visualization

                   http://radio.weblogs.com/0104369/stories/2002/04/09/macroscope022702.htm

Consultant, Strategic Adviser, and Public Speaker (May 2001 to present)

[sigma]         For SoftLock.com:  marketing Intellectual Property for SoftLock.comís stakeholders

[sigma]         For marketing and research firms:  data visualization and analysis

[sigma]         For Standards / Trade Organization activities (OEBF, MPG, etc)
  Author of the Open Ebook Forumís ontology document,   ìFramework for an E-publishing Ecology.î 
  http://www.openebook.org/framework/A%20Framework%20for%20the%20Epublishing%20Ecology.doc

[sigma]         For technology entrepreneurs: strategies for business development

[sigma]         For community technology activists:  wireless internet deployment strategy

Current projects

[sigma]         wireless internet for social needs: strategic consulting 

[sigma]         image processing, information visualization and tracking; social network analysis

[sigma]         one-handed keyboard, mouse, and text-reader for mobile and assistive computing

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