Mike Cowlishaw
FREng BSc CEng FIET FBCS CITP
I’m Mike Cowlishaw, a retired IBM Fellow [1] and also a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick. (Warwick is situated in central England, midway between Coventry and Stratford-upon-Avon; the University, however, is here, in South Coventry.)
My technical interests include:
- lightweight (preferably electric) aircraft (microlights and ultralights); I hold a National PPL (Microlight) licence
- lightweight (preferably solid-state) computers (one such is the IBM Workpad, for which I wrote Palm Globe; another is the Acorn System 1 and the Emulator I wrote for that); I currently carry either a Lenovo Thinkpad X200s laptop or an Asus Eee PC 900 netbook.
- vision and colour perception (hence the shading algorithms used in PMGlobe and Palm Globe)
- cognitive processes, including neural, genetic, and evolutionary algorithms and systems, especially empirical models that may give insight into thought processes
- high-power Light-Emitting Diodes and designing circuits for driving them
- cave surveying equipment and technologies
- the Rexx, Object Rexx, NetRexx, Java, PL/I, and C programming languages
- decimal arithmetic
(algorism)
in hardware and software, including
– the decimal data types and arithmetic in the new IEEE 754 standard
– the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification
– the decNumber open source implementation of this in ANSI C
– the enhanced BigDecimal class for Java 5 (see Java SR-13)
- electronic publishing, including the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries, SGML, the LEXX (now called LPEX) editor, Wikipedia, the World Wide Web, and my GoServe Web server (used for my personal research tool, MemoWiki).
Here are my address details:
| E-mail: | mfc@speleotrove.com |
| Website: | http://speleotrove.com |
[1] The IBM Fellow programme began in 1962/3 and I was the 113th IBM Fellow appointed, in June 1990. I took early retirement from IBM in March 2010; as of that date there had been 217 IBM Fellows appointed.
Legend: FREng — Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering; BSc — Bachelor of Science; CEng — Chartered Engineer; FIET — Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (was IEE); FBCS — Fellow of the British Computer Society; CITP — Chartered Information Technology Professional. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc.
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This page was last edited on 2010-03-06 by mfc.