Muse

Over the years I learned a number of musical instruments, wrote some poetry, started some fiction and non-fiction books, got involved with some weekend startups, played with network security in my basement, and put together some local immersive multiple media events. This page collects some of what I did.

Slide 1 – Experiments in Ambiance

June 2009-2011 by Bean and Leaf, New London, CT

Experiments in Ambiance (EIA)

I enjoy connecting things, and this experiment gave me the opportunity to bring together musicians, photographers, videographers and rapper/poets to create what we started to call soundscapes. I would go through a community taking pictures, and recording sounds as a backdrop to a improvisational performance we would put together on the stage of the former Bean and Leaf in downtown New London, CT. It was an eclectic improvisation of sight and sound. We would pick a key, then musicians would start to play, softly, with the ambient background, and then poets and rappers had the opportunity to take the mic and free-form. This was such a blast!!! I hope to find a time and place to start this up again soon.

Slide 3 -Covid Fusion

March 2020-present at home

COVID Fusion: Bringing Together Disparate Data Sources to Make sense of Infection Rates

COVID fusion is an open source project hosted on github, that is used to bring together multiple disparate sources of data, and initial fuse the data based on geographic extents. The project will initially use a series of Jupyter notebooks written in Python 3, to ETL data, fuse data into counties. I am very interested in how weather, population density, and infection rate/type of SARS-CoV-2 impacts risk, and the development of risk models for infectious diseases. The open-source project has a way to go… lets see where it ends up…

This project will leverage this overall process model, and ETL and fuse COVID related data on the web. The data will then be able to research and develop new models to better understand the disease and the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus

Slide 4 – Streaming Framework

December, 2002-2003 in USA

Creating a Streaming Framework – OpenPCE

In late the 1990s, I creating a streaming framework and later open sourced it. It was called the Open Pervasive Computing Environment. The idea was to push events into the framework and have action processors process the event, and act e.g. perform data transformations, statistics on the extracted data. This framwork came before Kafka and Flink were widely available, and OpenPCE was much more simpler in nature.

Slide 5 – SmartWeb

Jan-Dec 1998 at SmartWeb, Ridgefield, CT

SmartWeb – Developing an Automated Link Traversal Tool for Marketing Analytics

This was my first weekend startup, creating a link-click monitoring tools for Marketing Analytics. The project took off right before the dot-com bubble burst later that year. We developed a POC, showcased it, and got the idea appraised in the context of our value proposition. My focus was on the parsing and updating of pages to incorporate monitoring tags. This was a differentiator in its time. This technology was an indirect precursor to Google Analytics.