Kevin's Breadcrumbs

Influences and such:

• Books and articles
  • An Assessment of Potential Markets for Small Satellites (Center for Innovative Technology, Fairfax, VA: 1990) - co-author. This perhaps was the first public study of this exciting new technology. Much has happened with Small Satellites since then.
  • Space Economics (AIAA, Washington, D.C: 1992), coauthored Chapter 5.2, "Economics of Strategic Planning", with Joe Fuller, founder and president of Futron, Inc. We had a lot of fun collaborating on this paper.
  • National Information Infrastructure's NII Ease of Use white paper, presented many years ago (1993), when the Internet was on the verge of blastoff. The federal government was concerned about "universal access". I was a minor contributor to this conference and resulting white paper.
  • Health Information System Simulation tutorial - 1987
  • The AustrianECON Discussion List, aka AustrianEcon@agoric.com - I founded and moderated this academic discussion list (majordomo) on the subject of Austrian Economics; was a very active list from 1993-1997, but ran into technical difficulties while I was away in Indonesia in 1997, and is now defunct.
• Companies and Products
  • Agorics, Inc. - co-founder
  • CANTV, Venezuela - consulting, on some Domino-based apps, such as Tarjetas (oops, no longer exists).
  • Sampoerna, Indonesia - Notes consulting. Worked with HP on Sampoerna's network infrastructure issues as well, and especially enjoyed working with Mac McClusky, Koko Ityawamadi, and Dana Moentoro.
  • Domino Instant! Host - was development manager for releases 1.1 and 1.2, co-developed with Interliant and Lotus Development.
  • ecmarkets.net (now renamed) - at Nexgen Solutions, did some of the early design & development, in Domino.
  • VITASat Did some consulting to the Volunteers in Technical Assistance, providing economic justifications for the first VITASat small satellite. I'm very proud to see that these satellites are still flying!
  • UTMB's School of Allied Health Sciences HISS - created an early (1986) version, but current version has, I suspect, none of my legacy!
• Cites and References
  • Software Components, as seen by the Foresight Institute (go nanotech!)
  • more on Software Components - interview with LAN Times.
  • "Symbolic Interactionist Modeling", by Deborah Duong; also, the Trader Network Paper.
  • Syllabus for LRNG 792 - a course at George Mason University, featuring the Agora framework.
  • Resources for Economists on the Internet, was written many, many years ago, pre-web servers and commercialization. I played a small part in its writing. It has been rewritten several times since then.
• Volunteer Activities
  • HAMUN, member of the Board of Governors of the Houston Area Model United Nations.