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Catskill Hikes |
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Scheme Interpreter, Feb 2003 |
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New Job, Jan 2003 |
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Sierra Trip, July 2002 |
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Family Photo Gallery |
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Hiking Gallery |
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Catskill Hikes |
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Scheme Interpreter, Feb 2003 |
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New Job, Jan 2003 |
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Sierra Trip, July 2002 |
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My hikes and adventures |
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Ben's Graduation (May 2000) |
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Recent Family Snapshots (October 1999) |
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Silver Wedding Anniversary (June 1999) |
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Philadelphia Marathon (November 1999) |
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Jersey Shore Marathon (April 1999) |
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Family Snapshots (December 1988) |
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Family Snapshots (1997) |
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Building a house (1992) |
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Pictures taken at work (Bell Labs) |
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Aerial photos of New Jersey |
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Panoramas |
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Carrie's Home Page |
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Ben's Home Page |
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My Parents' Home Page |
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Our Dogs' Page |
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Running, Basketball, Ballroom dancing |
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Hiking, Backpacking |
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Distributed software systems |
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Embedded languages, especially for use in distributed applications. I have a particular interest in scheme. |
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Componentized software, especially Microsoft COM |
I work at Avaya. I am building software that provides the SIP infrastructure for the Communication Manager switching products.
Before that I worked at Sonus Networks, building a class 5 grade softswitch for IP-based telephony. Unfortunately the hard times in the telephony industry, and a few decsions that turned out to be not the best, led to the curtailment of that project, and left me unemployed.
My thoughts on Bell Labs:
I used work at Bell Labs -- part of Lucent Technologies. After 20 years with the company, I finally gave up hope that it would get its act together, so I left. For many years I was content to design and build great products that were doomed to failure in the marketplace because of poor marketing or sales. What finally convinced me to leave was when we couldn't even design good products.
Since I left Bell Labs, it has seen one disaster after another: its stock has fallen 80%
90%, it has fired its CEO, it has come under SEC investigation, it has restated its
earnings several times. Now I wonder if it will survive. I am really sorry to
see it come to this - so much squandered.
My patents at Bell Labs:
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Computer Telephony User Interface 4,653,090 |
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Audiographics Teleconferencing 4,953,159 |
My Projects at Bell Labs:
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The last project I worked on was the Lucent Softswitch. I was involved in providing an external programming interface for it. The first step was making the standards, which means I was heavily involved in JTAPI, JAIN, and Parlay. |
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Before that I worked implementing VoiceXML, a language for programming telephone media systems such as voice response systems. |
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I worked for a time as an internal consultant to teams in Lucent who were exploring the adoption of Windows NT and especially COM and DCOM. I helped organizations who wanted to use this technology in their products. |
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In 1997 and a998 I was part of a team developing the Virtual Telephone. We announced this product at CTExpo in March 1998, and I was there to demonstrate it in action. Unfortunately, Lucent cannot see the value in this product, and has decided not to market it. |
My comments on search engines.
Last modified 12/29/2003
chayden@comcast.net
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