Henry Minsky                                    Home  617 965 8289
67 Clyde Street                                 hqm@alum.mit.edu
Newton MA, 02460                             



Education:      Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Ma. 
                MS, BSc. in Electrical Engineering, June, 1991, 1984. 


Professional Interests: WWW Technology (hardware and software), Development of
                Network Services, Machine Intelligence, Electronic Publishing, 
                Databases, Electronic Commerce, Online Communities. 


Experience:     Laszlo Systems Inc
                2005-2002 
                Software Architect
                Working on system and compiler design and implementation for
                innovative new Rich Internet Application development environment.

                Keio University SFC Campus, Kanagawa, JAPAN
                2000-2001 
                Design and implementation of architecture for distributed
                location-based services and advanced wearable/mobile technology
                for NTT DoCoMo sponsored project.
                Used i-mode mobile phones, Linux, and Postgres database technology.
                Programming in Java, C, Tcl, SQL, embedded Linux Kernel, solder

		ArsDigita Corp., Boston and Tokyo
		1999-2001
		Design of core modules and architecture for integrated free-software 
		collaborative web application platform. Worked on Japanese language
		and internationalization support (including Unicode support), and local
		projects in Japan. 

                Industrial Nanotechnology Inc
                1998-1999
                Work on database-backed web services and applications
                for knowledge-based automation and production of documents for the
                mutual-fund industry.

                Chief Technology Officer, Method Software
                1997-1998
                Design and implementation of a Java-based interactive
                network role-playing game engine. Experience with software 
                project management and product development.

                Co-founder, Universal Access Inc, Santa Barbara CA
                1994-1997
                Startup company to produce tools for World Wide Web database 
                publishing and e-commerce. Designed generic database 
                interface for Meta-HTML web scripting and application server. 
                Designed and implemented XACT server, the first certified TCP/IP
                based online credit card transaction processing system.
                http://www.ua.com

                Research Assistant at MIT AI Lab
                1989-1993 for Prof. Tom Knight, MIT Transit
                parallel processor project. Working on high-speed fault-tolerant
                network architecture, high-performance packaging, and parallel-systems 
                design. Designed working self-routing 50 MHz CMOS VLSI crossbar switch
                for a multi-processor.

                Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center
                Summer 1989, 1991
                Worked on document imaging and intelligent image
                processing. Digital error-correction coding for printed data, paper
                user-interfaces, object-oriented Postscript programming. 

                Symbolics Inc, Cambridge, MA., 
                June, 1984
                Member of Technical Staff, involved in research and
                development of state-of-the-art VLSI design systems and
                tools. Worked on production of the Ivory lisp-machine
                processor chip.

                Reliable Water Inc., Boston, MA.
                Sep. 86 - May 87 
                Implemented a prototype real-time expert-system for
                controlling automated water desalination plant.

                C.S.K. Inc., Tokyo, Japan               
                Summer, 1984 
                Co-taught a Lisp course based on the Structure and
                Interpretation of Computer Programs.  Course was geared
                towards Japanese engineers interested in Artificial
                Intelligence.


Languages:      English and some spoken and written Japanese (2 years of study at MIT).


Publications:


        NS: An Integrated Symbolic Design System, IFIP International VLSI
        Conference 1985.


        Fault-Tolerant Design for Multistage Routing Networks,
        International Symposium on Shared Memory Multiprocessing, April 1991


        RN1: Low-Latency, Dilated, Crossbar Router, 
        Hot Chips Symposium III, 1991