Douglas Jensen:
CLASS OF 1960
Martin County High SchoolClass of 1960
Stuart, FL
Carnegie Mellon - Computer ScienceClass of 1987
Pittsburgh, PA
Southern Methodist UniversityClass of 1967
Dallas, TX
University of HoustonClass of 1965
Houston, TX
Florida State UniversityClass of 1964
Tallahassee, FL
Douglas's Story
I have a web site for my research: real-time.org (always out of date, lol)
I have a Facebook page as edouglasjensen
I have a LinkedIn page as edouglasjensen
I have a Google Scholar page that lists most of my academic research publications.
I have a Wikipedia page about one of my research topics, Time-Utility Functions
After high school, I went to FL State University and received BA's in math, music, and philosophy (it was on the trimester system so you could choose to take courses 12 months a year, which I did).
I discovered computers in my sophomore year and became a programmer in the Computer Center.
After graduation from FSU I went to work designing software and hardware at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (as it was called then). I moved to Dallas to design computers at a real-time computer manufacturer (since deceased). I moved to Minneapolis to design real-time computer systems at Honeywell Research for the DoD and intelligence communities. I won Honeywell's Engineer of the Year award for a distributed real-time computer system for weapons control on naval frigates. During all that time I earned an MS in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in computer science.
Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department invited me to join their faculty. I organized a large project on distributed real-time computer systems, graduated eight Ph.D. students, and did a lot of consulting worldwide.
I left CMU to join a start-up in Cambridge MA hoping to transition my research to a product. That company self-destructed, so I went to Concurrent Computer Corp. to continue my rese...Expand for more
arch and technology transition. Concurrent also self-destructed (for different reasons), so I moved to HP Labs in Palo Alto working out of their MA facility. HP eventually closed the MA facility. I didn't want to relocate to Palo Alto, so I joined Digital Equipment Corp. in the Boston area as Chief Engineer of the Real-Time Systems business unit. When Compaq bought DEC, they closed the real-time business unit. (That makes me seem like the kiss of death LOL.) I joined the MITRE Corp., an FFRDC (see Wikipedia) and did a combination of research and technology transfer on classified distributed real-time systems for the DoD and intelligence communities.
I authored and co-authored (with my Ph.D. students) hundreds of unclassified professional publications, at least 150 of which are publicly available on Research Gate and Academia.edu. My unclassified publications can also be found on Google Scholar. Over 5000 other authors' papers have cited my unclassified publications.
At age 70 I retired from MITRE and became a consultant doing classified work for the DoD and intelligence communities.
I have given invited lectures in almost every country in Europe, three countries in Africa, seven countries in Asia (the Orient, South Asia, Russia), and Australia.
At age 72 I began retiring from consulting to have more time to play with my toys and write a research monograph about my scientific contributions (see my real-time.org website, which is perpetually out of date).
I now have the usual age-related orthopedic problems so I don't travel anymore.
My best wishes to all my classmates.
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