Mike Cowlishaw
FREng BSc
Formerly FBCS FIET CEng CITP
I’m Mike Cowlishaw, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a former IBM Fellow [1]. I am also a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick.
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My technical interests include:
- lightweight aircraft (microlights and ultralights); I hold a National Private Pilots Licence (Microlight), and recently flew my flexwing aircraft (a MotorFloater) for the first time; I am also currently developing some experimental avionics applications
- Tollos – a supervisor program for ARM Cortex microcontrollers which I am developing as a base for avionics and low-power devices
- technologies for use in caving with Speleogroup, including high-power Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and designing efficient circuits for driving them; also cave surveying equipment and technologies (dead reckoning and surface GPS, etc.)
- weather research, particularly into wind gusts, their likelihood, and their relevance to light aircraft.
- vision and colour perception (hence the shading algorithms used in PMGlobe and Palm Globe)
- cognitive processes, including neural, genetic, and evolutionary algorithms and systems, especially empirical models that may give insight into thought processes
- the Rexx, Object Rexx, NetRexx, Java, PL/I, and C programming languages
- decimal arithmetic
(algorism)
in hardware and software, including
– the decimal data types and arithmetic in the new IEEE 754 and ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 standards
– the General Decimal Arithmetic Specification
– the decNumber open source implementation of this in ANSI C
– the enhanced BigDecimal class for Java 5 (see Java SR-13)
- electronic publishing, including the Oxford English Dictionary (for which I wrote the LEXX (now called LPEX) editor and separately am a consultant), the IBM Jargon Dictionary, SGML, Wikipedia, the World Wide Web, and my GoServe Web server (used for my personal research tool, MemoWiki)
- lightweight (preferably solid-state) computers (one such is the IBM Workpad, for which I wrote Palm Globe; another is the Acorn System 1 and the Emulator I wrote for that); I currently carry an Asus Eee PC 900 netbook (which has a solid-state drive) and (less often) a Lenovo Thinkpad X200s laptop.
[1] The IBM Fellow programme began in 1962/3; I was the 113th IBM Fellow appointed, in June 1990. I took early retirement from IBM in March 2010; as of that date there had been 217 IBM Fellows appointed.
Legend: FREng — Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering; BSc — Bachelor of Science; CEng — Chartered Engineer; FIET — Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (was IEE); FBCS — Fellow of the British Computer Society; CITP — Chartered Information Technology Professional. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc.
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This page was last edited on 2011-11-22 by mfc.