Papers and Projects
Today's world is increasingly project-based. Here are some samples of projects I did, and papers I wrote. I only have a few here now, but will be adding more.
Fuzzy
Controller for a Pitot-Static Test Set -- I did world's
first implementation of a fuzzy controller for a pneumatic
system. It is described in the following paper, which won 2nd
place best paper (out of 203 papers) in the 1993 National
Aerospace Electronics Conference. (Adobe Acrobat PDF format).
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Why Gold Makes Excellent Monetary
Policy -- This is a paper examining why some sort of
gold standard would work much better than the fiat money system
we have now. Although there are strong advocates of a gold
standard in the Libertarian and Randian / Objectivist
communities, virtually none of them understand the underlying
scientific or economic basis of why gold would work. Although the
U.S. government abandoned the gold standard in 1972, the free
market never abandoned it, as can be shown with the massive gold
runup to over $800 an ounce before Paul Volcker stepped in and
stopped the huge excess of monetary liquidity. Despite the
"quaintness" of the idea of gold in the age of instant
communications and high technology, this is the way to even
greater prosperity and lower interest rates than we have now --
because of the greater monetary certainty it would bring. And it
is also why the establishment, in the form of the "chaos
industry", is dead set against this idea -- it would mean
the end of currency speculation and most of the financial
derivatives industry, something that did not exist before the
gold standard was abandoned.
The Changing Face of Product
Strategy -- This is a paper I co-wrote about the
relevance and application of product strategy in a high-tech
world. It examines two major driving forces that are compelling
companies to change the way they think about product development
strategy, at risk of corporate demise. These forces are the
impact of disruptive technologies on established value networks,
and the acceleration of product development time, in response to
a world running on "Internet time". (Approximately
700K, MS Word format).
