Expert Details
Capacitive Touch and Proximity Sensors, Encryption, Touchscreens, Digital Rights Management, PKI, and Malware Detection
ID: 733624
Massachusetts, USA
Expert also specializes in user interfaces; gestures; touchscreen graphics; and user interfaces that optimize accessibility for the blind and for the visually-impaired. His core expertise also includes digital encryption; digital rights management; and malware detection. He has very strong expertise in programming and coding, as well as in source-code analysis and firmware.
Expert has consulted to leaders in the aforementioned spaces, including Google and Samsung, among a variety of others. He has several U.S. patents and has additional published patent applications.
He has significant expert witness experience in patent litigation.
Expert has consulted to several clients from 2008 to present.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 1974 | Degree: SBEE | Subject: EE/CS | Institution: M.I.T. |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 1992 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Principal | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert's firm offers consulting and development for multiple clients, including laboratory information processing for a biomedical company that undertakes drug discovery. His firm's recent expert work has also included digital audio HW/SW Agile verification automation for massive VOIP technology. Consultative work has also consisted of development for TV-band datacasting architecture; web-based collaborative work systems; prior-art research and source-code analysis in patent litigations; and technical assistance to attorneys.Expert's litigation support and expert witnessing takes the form of patent analysis and prior art research; source-code analysis and reverse engineering; expert report writing; and testimony (deposition and trial). Cases have involved major high-tech entities. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2005 to 2006 | Employer: Cylant Security | Title: Principal Engineer | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert's responsibilities as Principal Engineer encompassed malware and virus detection technology. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1991 to 2003 | Employer: Slate Corporation | Title: Technical Co-chair | Department: |
Responsibilities:Expert served Slate Corporation as company representative and technical co-chair of an industry standardization effort that encompassed electronic ink data format and compression applications. This company developed both pen and tablet computing applications products for the Microsoft PenWindows and GO (PenPoint) pen-computing operating systems. |
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International Experience
| Years | Country / Region | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Years: 2012 to 2013 | Country / Region: Australia | Summary: Expert witness for defendant Samsung in Apple, Inc. v Samsung Electronics Co. Limited, Proceeding No. NSD 1243 of 2011, Federal Court of Australia, concerning multi-touch hardware for mobile devices |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| Associate Member, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) (1983-1990, 2007-Present) Member, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) (1974-Present) Member, SID (Society for Information Display) (1992-1997, 2012-Present) Member, VIBUG (Visually-Impaired/Blind User Group: regional technical society) (1986-Present) |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Expert has a number of publications and 6 patents. |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| German | Fluent |
| English | Fluent |
| Spanish | Technical reading / conversational |