...if you want to know a bit about my professional history (I have thirty-two years of experience ranging from electronic warfare through virtual reality, robotics, to sensor networks, in such major research labs as Xerox PARC, Interval Research, AT&T Labs, and Sun Labs - then look at my resume... and read this list of my patents - which span amorphous silicon color scanner design, embedded digital information in images, affective computing in robotics, swarm intelligence in sensor networks, novel user interface designs, video search, and more. A project that I worked on that was way fun and cool - resulting in my filing six patent applications over a two and a half year period - involved the Sun SPOT Sensor Network platform. A work that I am quite proud of is the Placeholder virtual reality project, where I did audio field recording and C programming. You can get a hint of my philosophy by reading this neo-enlightenment rant, which is the center-piece of the lost Milleniel Whole Earth Review pages, and by looking at some of my philosophical broadsides, and some of my recent haiku. I 've lectured at Stanford University, the Royal College of Arts (London), the University of California, and numerous conferences, on subjects ranging from perception & psychophysics through virtual reality, new media, to strategy and tactics for research & development. At Sun Labs I was a member of the working group of the National Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems, sponsored by Battelle, the Foresight Institute, The Waite Family Foundation, and the U.S. government's national laboratories. At NASA I was a Senior Technology Strategist at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, putting together Space Act Agreements for collaboration between major technology companies and NASA - I did the strategic business development that lead to a major collaboration agreement between Sun Microsystems and NASA, covering supercomputing, Open Source development, and wireless sensor networks. I'm currently working for Texas Instruments, in a new group focusing on the Android operating system. I like inventing things. Since 1993 I have been exploring playing and recording tibetan bowls - I've put together a CD of these recordings titled Kelp Scum. I live with my wife Brenda Laurel at our house Locus Voci in a forest high in the Santa Cruz mountains above the Silicon Valley region of the San Francisco bay area - a place of adventure, where life is never dull.