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MIT-educated technical and software consultant. Highly experienced expert witness in patent and technology litigations. Areas of expertise include touchscreen and tablet hardware, capacitive touch and proximity sensors, styli/electronic pens, haptics; gestures, user interfaces (UIs), touchscreen graphics, and accessibility user interfaces (blind/visually-impaired); digital rights management (DRM), digital encryption (PKI), and malware detection; programming/coding, source-code analysis, and firmware. Public speaking experience for non-technical audiences. Author of technical reference bibliography cited by USPTO, academic dissertations and technical publications by others. Clients include Google, Samsung, Ericsson, Lenovo, Motorola, Nokia, and Lucent Technologies. Granted multiple US patents, additional published patent applications. |
Professional Experience
Rueters-Ward Services, Arlington, Massachusetts | 2008-present |
Litigation Support/Expert Witnessing
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Bluesocket, Inc., Burlington, Massachusetts | 2007-2008 |
(Staff) Software development and engineering process (with QA Director and VP Eng.) for a distributed wireless network controller product with integrated security, verification of SSL/TLS and VPN features in multiple hardware devices and SIP mobile phones. Agile/Jira. | |
Cylant Security, Burlington, Massachusetts | 2005-2006 |
(Staff: Principal Engineer) Computer security technology: Multi-platform product for malware/virus detection, including techniques of behavioral analysis. Two patent filings on novel techniques (violation of invariant conditions) for detection of rootkits and malware. | |
Digimarc, Burlington, Massachusetts | 2003-2004 |
(Consultant) Application of PKI technology in fabrication and production of secure identity documents and manufactured items. One patent filing regarding PKI signatures to ensure authenticity and track unauthorized issuance of security documents such as passports. | |
Independent Consultant (Multiple Projects) | 2002-2003 |
(Consultant) Web development in high-availability/high-performance applications, mobile payments using modified mobile phones, and international certification of a life-critical annunciation system. Prior-art research for two clients: pen-computing hardware and handwriting recognition. | |
CertCo Incorporated, Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1999-2002 |
(Staff: PKI Systems Architect) Development of distributed web applications involving proprietary PKI in e-commerce. Three patent filings regarding PK infrastructure for distributed electronic signing. | |
Siemens-Nixdorf USA, LCP Business Unit, Burlington, Massachusetts | 1998-1999 |
(Consultant) Design and development of cryptographic PKI/security technology for electronic DRM licensing of documents and materials distributed without restriction over the public Internet. | |
e-parcel.com, Newton, Massachusetts Division of Mitsubishi Electronics | 1996-1998 |
(Staff: Development Group Leader) Secure, encrypted document and software delivery systems for secure automatic delivery over the public Internet. Instituted engineering tracking and QA process. | |
FAX International, Burlington, Massachusetts | 1995-1996 |
(Consultant) Automated Email-to-FAX gateway, routing of fax traffic over private TCP/IP network. | |
DEC/Digital VXT Division, Marlboro, Massachusetts | 1994-1995 |
(Consultant) WindowsNT-based graphics/applications terminal product using ALPHA technology. | |
DMR Group, Waltham, Massachusetts | 1994 |
(Consultant) Proprietary application scripting language, associated compilers, debuggers, and tools. | |
Phoenix Technologies Ltd., PAGE Division Cambridge, Massachusetts | 1993-1994 |
(Consultant) Firmware for a multiple-language, multiple-resolution network printer (PostScript/PCL). | |
Termiflex Corporation, Merrimac, New Hampshire | 1993 |
(Consultant) Compiler, linker, interpreter, and related tools for an object-based programming language for applications in hand-held touchpad industrial controller terminals. | |
Professional Experience (continued)
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Slate Corporation, Newton, Massachusetts | 1991-1993 |
Development of tablet and pen computing applications products for the Microsoft PenWindows and GO/PenPoint pen-computing operating systems. Company representative and technical co-chair of an industry standardization effort (“JOT”) for electronic ink data format and compression applications. | |
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Expert Witness/Litigation Support/Fact Witness
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Published Patent Applications (Known, may not include foreign counterparts)
Granted Patents (Known, does not include foreign counterparts)
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Selected Publications
“Anomalies in measuring speed and other dynamic properties with touchscreens and tablets”, Proc. 2019 International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), Darmstadt, Germany, Sep. 18..20, 2019.
“Annotated
Bibliography in On-line Character Recognition, Pen Computing, Gesture User Interfaces and
Tablet and Touch Computers,” published and revised on-line 1999-present at
"Under the Hood: Digitizer Technology and Pen Computing", BYTE Magazine, January, 1993.
"Pen computing -- fad or revolution?," Information Display, pp. 14-19, March 1992.
“History of Pen-Based Computing - March 1992, Jean Renard Ward”, recording of presentation given to Boston Computer Society regarding pen/touchscreen computing from 1914 to 1992, available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xnqKdWMa_8 (Posted 2013 by Dan Bricklin, http://bricklin.com)
“The ‘How to’ of Electronic Ink: Tablet Error Mechanisms and Performance Analysis for Handwriting Capture” (with Robert Kabel of Scriptel), Research Report, Wang Laboratories, July 1990.
"One view of outstanding problems in handwriting recognition systems,” Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Handwriting Recognition and Applications, pp. 101-108, Montreal, Quebec, April 1990.
"A model for variability effects in hand-printing, with implications on the design of on-line character recognition systems", IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, May 1988.
"Digitizer technology: Performance characteristics and the effects on the user interface", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, April 1987.
"UNIX as a development tool for a non-UNIX microprocessor", CommUNIXations, Vol. V No. 5, August/September 1985.
"Interactive Recognition of Handprinted Characters for Computer Input", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 5 No. 9, September 1985.
(See also http://www.ruetersward.com/shortarticles)
Presentations/Presentation Organizing
Session chair and instructor Society for Information Display (professional society: SID.org) Tutorial seminars on integration of touchscreen/pen interfaces and digitizer technology with graphics displays at the 1992 (Boston) and 1993 (Seattle) annual conferences for the Society for Information Display. Consultant to various clients on tablet technology and pen computing interfaces 1991-1993.
Panel organizer "Issues in the validity of testing protocols and criteria for on-line recognition of handwritten text,” presented at the 1st International Symposium on Handwriting and Applications, Montreal, Canada, July 1987.
Organizer Multi-company presentation to PHIGS Standardization Committee concerning pen/tablet computing and gesture-recognition input devices, Boston, 1986. |
Current Professional Society Memberships
Education
S.B. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1974
Independent Study, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany 1972
Other
Familiarity with accessibility technology for visually-impaired/blind. Fluent in German. | |||||||
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