David Booth,  Ph.D.

153 Elm Street, Somerville, MA 02144
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Key interests:

Experience

2002-present: HP Software
Senior Research Architect in the central architecture team, which provides architectural governance and guidelines to the 50+ individual product development teams in HP Software.  Focus on architectural issues in data and application integration.  Increasing understanding of SOA and raising awareness on the relevance of Semantic Web technology to application and data integration issues, and piloting the use of Semantic Web technology.  Raising awareness on the trade-offs between information modeling in XML versus RDF.  Tracking W3C standards and technologies.  Additional roles:
Some papers/presentations/writings:
2002-2005: HP Software / W3C Fellow, MIT
W3C Fellow from HP Software, working out of W3C's MIT offices (80% assigned to W3C, 20% back reach into HP).  Alternate W3C team contact for the W3C Web Services Description working group, and alternate W3C team contact for the W3C Web Services Architecture working group.  Some writings/presentations:
1991-2002: Bluestone Software / HP Software (HP acquired Bluestone in 2000)
Responsible for technical course development and instructors.   Developed and taught numerous courses on Java, C++, X & Motif GUI design, Perl, the Bluestone Web application server, and others.   Led Bluestone's use of Web technologies for training purposes.  Bluestone's Advisory Committee representative to W3C.  Also invented and prototyped a system for collecting real-time traffic speed data by tracking cell phone locations, and for providing audible turn-by-turn driving guidance via cell phone based on traffic speed data.

1990-1991 Independent consultant
C++ programming, databases, X/Motif GUI programming.
Invented a technique for efficient, lossless multitrack audio recording on bandwidth-limited hard drives.  (Now obsolete as disk drives have become much faster.)

1986-1989 Bell Labs
Member of Technical Staff.  Research on applying artificial intelligence to VLSI design.

1980-1986: USC Information Sciences Institute
Systems analyst.  VLSI design prototyping software.  This was part of the MOSIS project, which was an early Web service (before the term existed) that permitted university researchers (and later commercial customers) to submit integrated circuit designs via email, automatically aggregate them, have the chips manufactured and shipped back to the requestors.

Education