EMPLOYMENT

Ken Knowlton



  NETWAVE/QUICKBUY, 1996-2000.
Research and Development of tools for Internet browsing and electronic commerce. Six U.S. patents. Co-developed:

 
  "Visual Link Object," for point and click on image to visit web site

Automatic identification and cutout of strong-image part of web page

Various Screen-savers involving choreography of Visual Link Objects

Automatic tiling of images of various sizes and aspect ratios


 
  WANG LABORATORIES, 1987-1995.
Software Engineering Architect, 10 U.S. Patents, Developed, coded, perfected techniques for compression, storage, retrieval, manipulation, editing and browsing among document page images, including:

 
  Automatic partitioning of images into line art and photograph

An editor with 100 pages on screen in various degrees of compression


 
With Karen Donoghue, interactive real-time tools for pen- and brush-style calligraphy, using a stylus with force-on-table readout controlling footprint size for footprint of brush (for Eastern) vs. pen (for Western) style writing.


 

A means of integrating scanned image objects with annotations

Means of browsing through and annotating books of miniature pages


 
  DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, Systems Research Center, 1986-1987.
Constructed:

 
  A library of tools and methods for a new high-res color graphics board


 
 

NETWORKED PICTURE SYS. & VIA VIDEO (Illustration graphics suppliers) 1983-1986
Developed:

 
  A Method for the lossless progressive transmission of color pictures

A means for enlarging color images, with automatic edge straightening

Variety of paint-system tools for interactive art/design


 
 

SRI INTERNATIONAL, Computing Research Division, 1982-1983.
Developed:



 
 

Preliminary design of a system for modeling of hierarchically-structured environments

Twelve invention disclosures with regard to various machines/methods

 

 
 

BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES, Computer Techniques Research Dept, 1962-1982.
10 U.S. Patents, dozens of published papers. Developed a wide variety of methods and demonstrations for computer graphics and interactive techniques, including:

 
  New graphics programming languages BEFLIX, EXPLOR, ATOMS, SPHERES

The Bell Telephone Laboratories' Low-Level Linked List Language L-6

Numerous means for rendering greyscale images on binary output devices

 

Virtual pushbutton console: keys & lightbuttons optically superimposed

The fast storage allocator later known as the "buddy" system


Patterns on Interlaced Display for eye-tracking-dependent ambiguous motion.

With G. Gilmer et al: movie depiction of simulations of crystal growth

Means for progressive transmission of greyscale and B/W images


Description of an ever-accelerating or -decelerating fractal rhythm (1976)


 
 
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