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Samir Chopra
811 Cortelyou Road
Apartment $\char93$ 6N
Brooklyn, NY 11218
schopra@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn (Appointed September 2002).

POSTDOCTORAL EMPLOYMENT

July 2000-August 2002: Australian Research Council Research Associate, Knowledge Systems Group, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

EDUCATION

1993-2000: City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center; New York, Ph.D Philosophy. Thesis Advisor: Rohit Parikh (Committee: Melvin Fitting, Henry Kyburg Jr.).
1987-1989: New Jersey Institute of Technology; Newark, New Jersey, M.S Computer Science.
1984-1987: Delhi University; New Delhi, India, B.A (with Honors) Mathematical Statistics.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Toward a Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, (manuscript in progress, under contract with University of Michigan Press)
Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software, (with Scott Dexter), Routledge, New York, May 2007
The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965, (with PVS Jagan Mohan), Manohar Publishers, New Delhi, 2005

Edited Volumes

Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics (ISSN 1166-3081; published by Èditions Hermés), (with Andreas Herzig) of Special Issue on Belief Change, 28(1-4), 2001.

Refereed Journals

Free Software and the Political Philosophy of the Cyborg World, (with Scott Dexter), ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society.
Building Bridges: The 2006 Summer Institute, (with Lori Scarlatos, Susan Lowes, Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, Ira Rudowsky and Heidi Holder), Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 23(3), 2008, 23-30.
Iterated Revision and the Axiom of Recovery, (with Aditya Ghose, Thomas Meyer and Ka-Shu Wong), Journal of Philosophical Logic, forthcoming.
Social Choice Theory, Belief Merging and Strategy-Proofness, (with Aditya Ghose and Thomas Meyer), Information Fusion, 7(1):61-79, 2006.
The Political Economy of Open Source Software, (with Scott Dexter), International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 1(1): 2005
Belief Liberation (and Retraction), (with Richard Booth, Aditya Ghose and Thomas Meyer), Studia Logica, 79(1):47-72, 2005.
Non-prioritized Ranked Belief Change, (with Thomas Meyer and Aditya Ghose), Journal of Philosophical Logic, 32(4):417-443, 2003.
Generalized Logical Consequence: Making Room for Induction in the Logic of Science, (with Eric Martin), Journal of Philosophical Logic, 28(31):245-280, 2002.
Approximate Belief Revision, (with Rohit Parikh and Renata Wassermann), Logic Journal of the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), 9(6): 755-768 (2001).
Relevance Sensitive Belief Structures, (with Rohit Parikh), Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 28(1-4): 259-285 (2000).
Relevance Sensitive Non-monotonic Inference for Belief Sequences, (with Konstantinos Georgatos and Rohit Parikh), Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, 11(1-2): 131-150 (2001).
An Experimental Study Comparing the Effectiveness of Computer Graphics Data versus Computer Tabular Data, (with Richard Coll and Arun Thyagrajan), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, July-August 1991.

Refereed Conferences

Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science , (with Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, Ira Rudowsky and Richard Jansen), AAAI Spring Symposium 2008.
Free Software and the Political Philosophy of the Cyborg World, (with Scott Dexter, Proceedings of CEPE-2007, July 2007
Privacy and Artificial Agents, or, Is Google Reading My Email?, (with Laurence White), Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, forthcoming.
A Comparative Ethical Assessment of Software Licensing Schemes, (with Scott Dexter), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer Ethics and Philosophical Enquiry, Enschede, July 2005.
Attribution of Knowledge to Artificial Agents and their Principals, (with Laurence White), Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Professional Book Center, 1175-1180.
Artificial Agents - Personhood in Law and Philosophy, (with Laurence White), Proceedings of the Sixteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, 636-639.
A Unifying Semantics for Belief Change, (with Richard Booth, Aditya Ghose, Thomas Meyer), Proceedings of the Sixteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, 793-797¹.
Distance Semantics for Relevance Sensitive Belief Revision, (with Pavlos Peppas and Norman Foo), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation-KR2004, AAAI Press, 319-328.
Some logics of Belief and Disbelief, (with Johannes Heidema and Thomas Meyer), Proceedings of Australian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI-03, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Number 2903 Springer-Verlag, 364-376.
Belief liberation (and retraction), (with Richard Booth, Thomas Meyer and Aditya Ghose), in M. Tennenholtz (ed.), Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2003), Morgan Kaufmann, pp 159-172, 2003.
Attacking the Complexity of Prioritized Inference: A Preliminary Report, (with Renata Wassermann), Proceedings of Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, SBIA-02, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Number 2507 Springer, 31-40.
Consistency of Action Descriptions, (with Dongmo Zhang), Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI-02, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Number 2417, pp 70-79.
Iterated revision and the axiom of recovery, (with Aditya Ghose and Thomas Meyer), in Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI-02, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2002.
Postdiction Problems in Dynamic Logic, (with Dongmo Zhang), Proceedings of the Fourteenth Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI'01, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Number 2256, Springer-Verlag, pp 119-129.
Encoding Solutions of the Frame Problem in Dynamic Logic, (with Norman Foo, Dongmo Zhang, Yan Zhang, Bao Quoc Vo), Proceedings of Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Number 2173, Springer-Verlag, pp 240-253.
Social Choice, Merging and Elections, (with Thomas Meyer and Aditya Ghose), Proceedings of Sixth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty, ECSQARU-2001, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Number 2143, Springer-Verlag, pp 466-477.
Non-prioritized Ranked Belief Change, (with Thomas Meyer and Aditya Ghose), Proceedings of Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, TARK-2001, 151-162 , Morgan Kaufmann.
An Inconsistency Tolerant Model for Belief Representation and Belief Revision (with Rohit Parikh), Proceedings of Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI-99, Stockholm, Sweden, Morgan Kaufmann. Abstract published in Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Vol 5, Number 3, September 1999.
Non-Monotonic Inference on Belief Sequences, (with Konstantinos Georgatos and Rohit Parikh), Proceedings of 2nd Pan-Hellenic Symposium in Logic, eds. Phokion Kolaitis and George Koletsos, 1999.
No Cognition Without Representation?, Electronic Proceedings at CogNet (MIT Press) (cognet.mit.edu) for New Trends in Cognitive Science, 1999 (NTCS-99 ).

Refereed Workshops

Restrained Revision, (with Richard Booth and Thomas Meyer), Proceedings of International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, 2005.
Belief liberation (and retraction), (with Richard Booth, Thomas Meyer and Aditya Ghose), Proceedings of International Workshop on Non-monotonic Reasoning, Action and Change, 2004.
Iterated revision and the axiom of recovery, (with Aditya Ghose and Thomas Meyer), Proceedings of Ninth International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, 2002.
Some logics of belief and disbelief, (with Johannes Heidema and Thomas Meyer), Proceedings of Ninth International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, 2002.
Syntactic Representations of Semantic Merging Operations, (with Thomas Meyer and Aditya Ghose), Proceedings of the Australian Knowledge Representation Conventicle, 2002 .
Non-prioritized Ranked Belief Change, (with Thomas Meyer and Aditya Ghose), Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action, and Change, IJCAI-01.
Consistency of Action Descriptions, (with Dongmo Zhang), Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action, and Change, IJCAI-01.
Postdiction Problems in Dynamic Logic, (with Dongmo Zhang), Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action, and Change, IJCAI-01.
Syntactic Representations of Semantic Merging Operations, (with Thomas Meyer and Aditya Ghose), Proceedings of International Workshop on Inconsistency in Data and Knowledge, IJCAI-01.
Context Based Merging, (with Thomas Meyer and Aditya Ghose), Proceedings of Fifth Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, 2001.
Multi-agent Context Based Merging (preliminary versions), (with Thomas Meyer and Aditya Ghose), Proceedings of the Australian Workshop on Computational Logic 2001. and Proceedings of the International Workshop on Inconsistency in Data and Knowledge 2001.
Postdiction Problems in Dynamic Logic: preliminary report, (with Dongmo Zhang), Proceedings of the Australian Workshop on Computational Logic 2001.
Consistency Analysis for Reasoning about Actions, (with Dongmo Zhang), Proceedings of the Australian Workshop on Computational Logic 2001.
Approximate Belief Revision: preliminary eport, (with Rohit Parikh and Renata Wassermann), Proceedings of the Workshop on Language, Logic and Information, 2000.
Relevance Sensitive Non-Monotonic Inference on Belief Sequences, (with Konstantinos Georgatos and Rohit Parikh), Proceedings of 8th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, Breckenridge, April 2000.

Book Reviews

Cyberpunk and Cyberculture, Dani Cavallaro, Resource Center for Cybercultural Studies.
Theory and Method in the Neurosciences, eds. Machamer et. al, Metascience, 11:1, 85-88, 2002.
Frege by Anthony Kenny, APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, forthcoming.
Philosophical Naturalism by David Papineau, APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Volume 00, Number 2, Spring 2001.
What Is This Thing Called Science? by Alan Chalmers, APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Volume 99, Number 2, Spring 2000.

TALKS

Web 0.1 = Web 3.0, Turoff and Hiltz Festschrift, NJIT, October 2007
Toward a Legal Theory for Artificial Agents, Yale Law School, September 2007
The Freedom Zero Problem, NA-CAP, Chicago, June 2007
Free Software and the Political Philosophy of the Cyborg World, CEPE 2007
Privacy and Artificial Agents, or, Is Google Reading my Email?, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderbad, 2007
Attribution of Knowledge to Artificial Agents and their Principals, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, 2005.
A Comparative Ethical Assessment of Free Software Licensing Schemes, Sixth International Conference on Computer Ethics and Philosophical Enquiry, Enschede, July 2005.
The Aesthetic Imperative of Free and Open Source Softwar, APA Conference on Computing and Philosophy, Oregon State University, August 2005.
The Political Economy of Open Source Software, International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, University of California, Berkeley, 2005.
Artificial Agents - Personhood in Law and Philosophy, Sixteenth European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Valencia, August 2004.
Artificial Intelligence as Philosophy and Psychology, Brooklyn College Faculty Day Seminar on Cognitive Science.
Does Cognitive Science Rest on a Mistake?, Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science, Sydney, July 2003.
Social Choice and Belief Merging, Department of Computer Science, University of Wollongong, December 2002.
Inconsistency Tolerant Belief Revision, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University of South Africa, Pretoria, November 2001.
Social Choice Theory and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University of South Africa, Pretoria, November 2001.
Social Choice Theory and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Economics Seminar Series, Sydney University, November 2001.
Postdiction Problems in Dynamic Logic, Fourth International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action, and Change, Seattle, August 2001.
Context based merging, International Workshop on Inconsistency in Data and Knowledge 2001, Seattle, August 2001.
Postdiction problems in dynamic logic, Australian Workshop on Computational Logic, Bond University, February 2001.
Inconsistency Tolerant Belief Revision, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, November 2000.
Inconsistency Tolerant Belief Revision, Department of Information Systems Seminar, University of Wollongong, October 2000.
Approximate Belief Revision, Computational Reasoning Laboratory Seminar, Macquarie University, Sydney, August 2000.
Relevance Sensitive Non-Monotonic Inference on Belief Sequences, 8th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, Breckenridge, April 2000.
Ryan and Schobbens on Counterfactuals and Updates, Seminar for Computational Game Theory, NYU, January 2000.
Relevance Sensitive Nonmonotonic Inference on Belief Sequences, New York City Logic Conference, November, 1999.
Brewka on Preferred Subtheories, Seminar for Computational Game Theory, NYU, October 1999.
Relevance Sensitive Models for Inconsistency Tolerant Belief Revision, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, October 1999.
Relevance Sensitive Models for Inconsistency Tolerant Belief Revision, University of Maryland, Logic and Artificial Intelligence Seminar, October 1999.
Ryan on Ordered Theory Presentations, Seminar for Computational Game Theory, New York University, September 1999.
Two Relevance Sensitive Models for Belief Revision, Belief Revision Workshop, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, August 1999.
Foundations of Belief Revision, Seminar for Computational Game Theory, New York University, July 1999.
Non-Monotonic Inference on Belief Sequences, 2nd Pan-Hellenic Symposium in Logic, Delphi, Greece, 13th-17th July, 1999.
Preemption, Event Identity and the Naive Counterfactual Account of Causation, (with David Coady), British Society for the Philosophy of Science Summer Conference, University of Nottingham, UK, July 1999.
No Cognition Without Representation? Dynamical Computationalism and the Emulation Theory of Representation at New Trends in Cognitive Science-1999-Vienna, Austria, May 1999.
An Inconsistency Tolerant Model for Belief Representation and Belief Revision, 10th Biennial Boston Logic Conference, MIT, Boston, May 1999.
Non-Monotonic Inference on Sequenced Belief Bases, Seminar for Computational Game Theory, New York University, June 1999.
An Inconsistency Tolerant Model for Belief Representation and Belief Revision, Seminar for Logic and Game Theory, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, April 1999.
An Inconsistency Tolerant Model for Belief Representation and Belief Revision, Annual Meeting of The Association of Symbolic Logic, San Diego, March 1999.
An Inconsistency Tolerant Model for Belief Representation and Belief Revision, Seminar for Recent Applications of Logic in Computer Science, CUNY Graduate Center, Spring 1999.
Belief Revision, Language Splitting and Inconsistency Tolerance, Seminar for Logic in Computer Science, CUNY Graduate Center, Fall 1998.

GRANTS/AWARDS

NSF Broadening Participation in Computing grant for "Building Bridges in Brooklyn" (with Simon Parsons, Ira Rudowsky, Lori Scarlatos and Elizabeth Sklar), $500,000
PSC-CUNY Grant for Decoding Liberation, $4000
PSC-CUNY FRAP, `Belief Revision and Merging', $3500
PSC-CUNY FRAP, `Knowledge-Theoretic Properties of Strategy-Proof Voting', $4600.
Research funded by ARC, IREX.
IJCAI Travel Award for IJCAI-99 (Stockholm, August 1999).
2nd Pan-Hellenic Logic Symposium Grant (Delphi, July 1999).
NSF/ASL Student Travel Grant for 1999 Annual Meeting in San Diego.
NSF/MAMLS Student Travel Award for 1999 Boston Logic Conference (MIT).
City University Student Travel and Research Fund/Alumni Association Award (Spring 1999).
City University Graduate Center Tuition Fellowship (Fall 1995, Spring 1994, Fall 1999).
Rutgers/NJIT Teaching and Research Assistantship, 1988-1990.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member, Program Committee, International Workshop on Dynamic Logic and Belief Revision, ESSLI-2005.
Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Foundations on Information and Knowledge Systems (FoIKS 2004).
Member, Program Committee, Special Session on Changing and Integrating Information, International workshop on Non-monotonic Reasoning, 2002.
Program Chair, International Workshop on Belief Change: Theory and Practice, at the Seventh International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2000).
Association of Symbolic Logic (member), Association for Automated Reasoning (member).
Referee for IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science 1999 (LICS-1999), International Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence 2000 (ICTAI-2000), AAAI Spring Symposium on Answer Set Programming-2001, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2001, 2005 (IJCAI-01, 05), International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory 2001 (ALT-01), Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS-01), Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-01), Fifth Australian Computer Science Conference (ACSC-2002), Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2002,2004), European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2002,2004), European Conference on Logics for Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2002).
Referee for Erkenntnis, Artificial Intelligence Journal, International Journal for Foundations of Computer Science, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics.
Reviewer for PSC-CUNY Research Grants.

TEACHING

CUNY Honors College Seminar 3 (Science and Technology in New York City), Modern Philosophy, Brooklyn College, Fall 2006
Computer Ethics, Representations of Artificial Intelligence in Film, Brooklyn College, Spring 2006
CUNY Honors College Seminar 3 (Science and Technology in New York City), Compter Ethics, The Internet, Brooklyn College, Fall 2005
Compiler Construction, Philosophy of Science, Brooklyn College, Spring 2005
Theoretical Computer Science, Discrete Mathematics, Social Philosophy, Fall 2004, Brooklyn College, New York.
Artificial Intelligence, Core 5.1, Spring 2004, Brooklyn College, New York
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2003, Brooklyn College, New York.
Artificial Intelligence, Theoretical Computer Science, Spring 2003, Brooklyn College, New York.
Discrete Mathematics, Fall 2002, Brooklyn College, New York.
Modal Logic, Session II-2001, University of New South Wales. Guest Lecturer on Logics of Knowledge and Belief.
Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Session I-2001, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales.
Applied Logic II, Australian Logic Summer School (sponsored by Australian National University), Canberra, Dec 2000 (Material prepared by Maurice Pagnucco).
Belief Revision: From AGM to Computational Models, with Renata Wasserman and Eduardo Ferme at SBIA-IBERAMIA 2000, Tutorial.
Theory of Computation, Department of Computer Science, New York University, New York, Spring 2000
Analysis of Algorithms, Department of Computer Science, Brooklyn College, New York, Fall 1999
Discrete Structures, Department of Computer Science, Queens College, New York, Spring 1999
Introduction to Philosophy, Department of Art, Music and Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, Spring 1997-Fall 1997
Networking and UNIX, Graphical User Interface Design, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, New York University, New York, Fall 1997-Spring 1999
Introduction to Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Baruch College, NY, Fall 1994-Spring 1995.
PASCAL Programming, The Virtual Classroom, New Jersey Institute of TTechnology, Fall 1993
Database Management, Management Information Systems, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, Fall 1988-Spring 1990

STUDENT SUPERVISION

Doctoral Independent Study, Yuri Cantor, CUNY Graduate Center.
Undergraduate research project, Alex Hoffnung, Starr Bernard, Waseem Illahi, Morgan Ress, Maxim Titley, Brooklyn College, New York.
Doctoral Committee, Chee-Fon Chang, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
Honours Thesis Supervisor, Marc Anthony Ahrens, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Thesis title: Non-monotonic Inference on Belief Sequences.
Doctoral Mentoring, Victor Jauregui, University of New South Wales.

SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Brooklyn College Committee on Curriculum Design for Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies.
Department Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
Department Seminar Co-ordinator.
CUNY Honors College Advisement, March 2004.
Brooklyn College Arts of Democracy Project.
Brooklyn College Cognitive Science Colloquium.

REFERENCES

Professor Norman Foo, (norman@cse.unsw.edu.au), School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. (Phone 02-9385-; Fax: 02-9385-5995).
Professor Rohit Parikh (ripbc@cunyvm.cuny.edu), Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics and Philosophy, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016. (Phone: 1-212-817-8197; Facsimile
Professor Melvin Fitting (fitting@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Lehman College (City University of New York), 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468-1589.
Professor Henry Kyburg (kyburg@cs.rochester.edu), Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, PO Box 270226 Rochester, NY 14627.
Professor Bud Mishra (mishra@nyu.edu), Department of Computer Science, New York University, 719 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.

Summary of Industrial Work Experience

SYSTEMS

SUN Sparc Family (SOLARIS 2.x), SUN 6/90 (SUN OS x.x), DEC 3000, IBM 6000 (AIX), Amdahl 5870 (System V 5.0) IBM 4361, 9377 (VM/CMS) ; AT&T 3B5, 3B2; VAX 8530 (VMS 5.1) ; VAX 8800 (Ultrix-32 V3.1); HP 9000/815,9000/835 (HP-UX 3.0) ; Pentium desktops, (Windows 95/NT)

SKILLS

C, C++, Webpage tools (HTML/Frontpage) RDBMS 4GL's, UNIX shell, Perl, CGI Bin, Expect (tk), pipes, sockets, TCP/IP, Internet architecture and security issues, X-Windows based GUIs, Pascal, Lisp, GPSS.

EXPERIENCE

11/97-6/00: Technical Consultant, NYU Press, New York University, NY
Administer UNIX web servers (Webmaster function) for database driven catalog of published books, with a shopping cart system to allow for book purchases. Manage resources, access, programming (with CGI and Perl Scripts) and security. The site web server uses BSDI OS (BSD 4.4), Apache 1.1.1 from Stronghold, and supports secure transactions through SSL, running an SQL database on a local UNIX socket. Programming advisor for pilot project in Distance Learning on our server; modify Perl scripts for online exams/assignments, maintain online help account.
12/97-6/98: Solaris Systems Administrator, National Discount Brokers, New York, NY
System administrator for SUN Ultra/Enterprise Servers for online trading site (ndb.com). Administration for Netscape Suitespot, Solstice Networker and Veritas Volume Manager. Wrote scripts to automate monitoring of website (filesystem, memory, system performance, disk utilization checks). Installed software, hardware (new servers, diskdrives, memory modules) wrote crons, backup scripts, configured disks.
8/95-8/96: Solaris Systems Administrator/Systems Analyst - Interface Engine Project, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
System Administrator for SUN Sparc 1000s/20s/5s running interface engine software for heterogeneous network. Assisted Sybase Group. Software installation, configuration, testing (layered products, applications): Solstice Backup/DiskSuite, SunLink SNA P2P/DNI. Install, configure and test High Availability environment (application, NFS failover): set up hardware, private Ethernets, shared Sparc Storage Array, disk mirroring software, write custom agents. Design, develop communication clients (TCP/IP) in C. Compile, install development tools; wrote scripts to monitor disk space, system performance; analyze, evaluate system performance; upgrade, install hardware (system boards, memory modules) and OS releases. Install patches, write crons, configure printers, troubleshoot system.
6/93-7/95: Technical Consultant - EIES Development Project, Computerized Conferencing & Communications Center, Newark, NJ
Worked on development project for Group Decision Support Systems in object oriented environment using C on Sparc 10 on Solaris 2.xx. Porting development environments from Ultrix 3.0 to Solaris 2.xx. Compiled and installed Internet and WWW tools (gopher clients, HTTP servers) on Solaris 2.xx. Work included interfaces (hypermedia and GUI) to Internet mail and the WWW ( modified NJIT browser, mail interface from Mosaic & Netscape, HTTP, HTML, CERN and NCSA daemons). Miscellaneous consulting projects included:
$\bullet$ Merrill Lynch, Princeton: Designed and developed hypermedia interface on UNIX and NT platforms (using CGI bin scripts) to DB2 database engine.
$\bullet$ SEMATECH: Evaluated and used document tools (FrameMaker, InterLeaf, MPEG/JPEG formats) to prepare hypertext versions of documents for online browsing and full text search.
$\bullet$ NSF: Requirements analysis for Multimedia Courseware project funded by NSF. Evaluated WWW tools and prepared sample HTML pages.
6/90-3/93: Technical Consultant, Remote Test Tool Project AT&T Bell Laboratories; Middletown, New Jersey
Designed and implemented automated testing system to facilitate remote regression testing of ISDN/BRI endpoints on digital communications system providing voice and data services. System designed to run on distributed network of SUN workstations connected through STARLAN PC network to target switch. All coding in C on Amdahl 5870 running SUN OS 4.3.2. System administrator for development machines (3B2s and UNIX PCs) for pilot project. Wrote user manuals and design documents. Implemented UNIX shell environment to facilitate automated test runs. Installed network of AT&T Unix PC's on DATAKIT network. Testing and analysis of ISDN/PRI voice/data services for AT&T toll network services.
8/88 to 5/90: Research Assistant, Computerized Conferencing & Communications Center, Newark, NJ
Worked on development of electronic mail and conferencing systems in an object oriented environment. Devised and implemented tickets function to facilitate exception access to database objects across distributed databases. All coding in C in VM/SP environment on IBM 4361. Aided in implementation of automated testing facility on production versions of similar software in UNIX environment. Wrote elementary shell scripts to facilitate testing.
8/88 to 5/90: User Consultant; Dept of Computer & Information Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
User Consultant for Electronic Information Exchange System; aided users in resolving problems encountered while on EIES. Answered queries from users interactively.

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