Curriculum Vitae of Jakob Vlietstra(-Schellingwou)
Curriculum Vitae of Jakob Vlietstra(-Schellingwou)<b>
Retired IT Director
ex-Officer in the Dutch Merchant Navy
1968 Buckeye Road
Willits, CA 95490
USA
Contents:
Date of birth
Place of birth
Education and Academic Achievements
Position/affiliation
Addresses
Professional experiences
Research areas
Membership of editorial boards
Membership of professional and humanistic societies
Awards
Honorary appointments
Publications
Patents
Books
Websites
Current Areas of Interest
Special Studies on Equations
Contents
Date of birth:
1932-04-29 (29th of April 1932).
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Place of birth:
Leeuwarden, the capital of Fryslân, one of the two northernmost
provinces in the Netherlands.
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Education and Academic Achievements:
Rijks Hogere Burgerschool (graduated in 1950)
Kweekschool v.d. Zeevaart (Maritime College in Amsterdam - graduated in 1951)
Outward Bound Sea School 1951
Maritime College Groningen 1952 (3rd mate's ticket)
Maritime College Rotterdam 1956 (2nd mate's ticket)
Royal Tropical Institute Amsterdam 1952 (introduction to Indonesian language and culture)
Technical University of Eindhoven (mathematics)
Technical University Delft (numerical and classical analysis)
University of Amsterdam (process analysis) -
Graduation thesis presented to Prof. dr. ir. A. van Wijngaarden, graduated in 1965.
Insitut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (supported and defended the research on CONLAN of Mrs. D. Borrioni in 1984 at the National Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble; the results consisted of a promotion to Doctor of Philosophy of said Institute.
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Position/affiliation:
Retired from Philips and AT&T Network Systems. Is currently
active in writing technical articles on industrial computer applications.
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Normal (professional)addres:
dr.ing. Jakob Vlietstra
1968 Buckeye Road
Willits, CA 95490
USA
tel/fax: 1 707 459 1348
cell: 707 841 1320
e-mail#1: jakobvlietstra@gmail.com
e-mail#2: jakobvlietstra@lycos.com
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Professional experiences:
- 10 years as deck-officer (stuurman, mate, steuermann) and captain in the
merchant marine: yachts, freighters, oil-tankers, passenger ships and
ocean-going tugboats.
Ships I served (and worked on) were:
- 33 years in Information Technology, of which
- 8 years as programmer (scientific and engineering applications)
- 5 years as researcher in such areas as computer languages,
compilers, operational research techniques, computer aided
technologies, and mathematical applications; the biggest achievements were
the specification and realization of a system with which the shapes of
the glass of TV-tubes could be designed and manufactured
automatically, and the involvement in the use of the AED Software Engineering tools; its implementation; the development of a graphical interface to the AED language and the technical cooperation with the MIT development staff of D.T. Ross.
- 8 years as Philips' concern coordinator for CAD in electronics
- 5 years as manager of the head-department comprising of CAD,
standards, technical documentation, and the modelshop in Philips
Telecommunication Industry.
- 7 years as information technology director responsible for CAD/CAM, and strategic & architectural IT-issues in AT&T Network
Systems Nederland BV.
- Founded and chaired the Working Group 5.2 on Computer Aided
Design of IFIP (the International Federation for Information
Processing) (1972-1975).
- Chaired IFIP-TC-5 (IFIP's Technical Committee on Applications in
Technology) (1977-1983)
- Member of the Program Committees of IFIP's World Congresses
in Toronto (1977) and Dublin (1986).
- Founded the technical journal "Computers in Industry" (1979).
- Founded the series of international CAPE conferences (CAPE = Computer Applications in Product(ion) Engineering) in Amsterdam (1983), Copenhagen
(1986), Tokyo (1989), Bordeaux (1991), Beiing (1994),and Detroit
(planned for 1997 but unfortunately cancelled since it collided
with AUTOFACT'97).
- Consultant to the Management of Computervision (1979 - 1984).
- Consultant to I3P (1984 - 1987).
- Secretary of Working Group 2 of IEC Technical Committee 3B
(1981 - 1985).
- Member of the Board of Directors of CIAD, a Dutch Association
of Computer Users (1983 - 1987).
- Appointed in 1984 to the rank of "Hoofdingenieur" (Chief development engineer) in Philips Telecommunication Industry.
- Member of the Board of Directors of I3P (1987 - 1989).
- Director of GLI Europe (1990 - 1991).
- Member of the sub-committee for applied mathematics and
informatics of the scientific committee of NLR - NIVR (Netherlands'
Laboratory and Institute for Aerospace) (1986-1991).
- Co-founded and acted as Program Committee Chairman of the
series of Dutch CAPE conferences (1985, 1987, 1989, and 1991).
- Chaired the European CIMOSA (Computer Integrated
Manufacturing - Open System Architecture) ESPRIT-consortium - consisting of 20 large
European
corporations (1986-1992).
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Research areas:
- Traffic control
- Flat and cylindrical cam profiles and functions
- Design and manufacturing methods and techniques for TV-tubes
- Heat transfer
- Applications in Operations Research (OR)
- Numerical Control
- Algol Extension for Design (AED - the early
MIT project on high
level languages and programming systems)
- Architectures of automated systems
- Computer Aided Design (CAD)
- Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
- Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
- Enterprise Engineering (EI)
- IT Strategies
- Determining the roots of complex polynomial equations and visualizing the loci of seed values necessary to determine those roots. Used the methods of Wegstein, Newton-Raphson, Regula Falsi, Muller, modified Wegstein, and extended Newton-Raphson (work carried out currently). See Methods for finding roots and visualizing seed values that lead to determining the roots
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Membership of editorial
boards:
- Editor-in-chief of the Dutch CAD/CAM Handbook
- Editor/contributor to Samsom's Lexicon. (Is responsible for the
dictionaries on: Industrial terms, Logistic terms, terms in Artificial
Intelligence, terms in Telecommunications, terms in Electronics, and terms in Software Engineering (published Sept/Nov 1999)
- Member of the editorial board of: "Computers in Industry".
- Co-editor of 'Ontwerpen & Construeren' (Design & Construction)
an Engineering Newsletter and a publication of
ten Hagen en Stam.
- Contributing author to the 'Constructeur' (a Dutch technical journal) from 1998 until 2007. The Constructeur is a publication of Uitgeverij Nassau
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Membership of professional and humanistic
societies:
- Senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
- Senior member of SME/CASA
- Member of the Computer Society of IEEE
- Member of ACM-SIGGRAPH
- Honorary member of IFIP Technical Committee 5: Computer
Applications in Technology
- Member of IFIP-WG 5.2 (Working Group on CAD)
- Honorary member of IFIP-WG 5.3 (Working Group on CAM)
- Member of IFAC/IFIP Task Force and IFIP Working Group WG 5.12 on Enterprise Integration
- Member of Amnesty International
- Field partner of Doctors without Borders
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Awards:
- IFIP Silver Core Award (1977)
- CIAD Award (CIAD Prijs)(1991)
- CAD Award (1993)
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Honorary appointments:
- Honorary member of IFIP-WG 5.3
- Member of the Honorary Editorial Board of "Computers in Industry"
- Honorary member of IFIP TC-5
- Honorary Doctorate in Philosopy
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Publications:
- Computation of Traffic Signal Sequences by means of Linear
Programming
- The APT
Language for the numerical control of machine tools
- The APT Post-Processor
- Philcon: an application language for Philips' cam-milling machines
- Computers and Development
- The AEDBAR system for n-linkage mechanisms (the article served as a basis for a PhD degree at MIT)
- FOURBAR: a graphical 4-bar linkage design system
- A CAD-architecture for Electronic Applications at Philips'
Gloeilampenfabrieken
- The Reality of Computer Aided Design
- PCB Design Systems
- The ARCADE System: Integrating the design process
- Computer Applications in Technologies - Opportunities and
Problems (Keynote address CAPE'83)
- CAPE'87: A summary and discussion
- CAPE'89: Nederland Quo Vadis?
- The Computer in Production and Engineering
- Many articles on CIMOSA. These articles found their way into
technical journals, and in a number of proceedings of international
conferences and symposia.
- Computer Integration and APT: An ESPRIT Project
- IMIS: An Integrated Manufacturing Information System,
published in the journal "Manufacturing Review".
- PDI Standards can't easily be merged
- Latest contributions to the Dutch CAD/CAM Handbook
include:
- Verification programs for electronic applications
- Archiving
- Bills-of-material
- Information models of the Bill-Of-Material (BOM)
- Partitioning of electronic products
- Formal specifications of electronic products
- Manufacturing Information Systems
- Diagnostic processes
- Manufacturing Process Control Systems in an electronic industry
- Robots and robot programming
- Quality standards
- Group Technology (GT)
- Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP)
- Construction methods and techniques
(All articles are written in the period from 1992 to 1998)
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Contributions to the Dutch CAD/CAM Jaarboek 1998 and 1999:
- Product design and Computer Aided Design (in Dutch)
- Coupling the product design with industrial processes (in Dutch)
- CAD/CAM/CAE and the World Wide Web (in Dutch)
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Seven parts of Samsom's Lexicon, a dictionary of IT-related terms, on:
- Industrial Automation (CAD, CAM, CAE, CIM, EI)
- Logistics
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Communications
- Computer Graphics & Visualization
- Electronics
- Software Engineering
- Product Life Cycle Management: PLM, meer dan techniek alleen (article in De Constructeur - sept. 2003) (in Dutch)
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Patents:
- Computation of Traffic Light Sequences
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Books:
Websites:
- Dictionary of Technical Terms (author, 1995-2001) - (Use this Website to find the explanation of technical terms and phrases in industrial environments: Computer Aided Technologies, Logistics, Electronics, Telecommunication, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Graphics)
- Technical Lexicon (author, 1995-2001) - (Use this Website for elaborate definitions and descriptions of terms and phrases in Computer Aided Technologies, Logistics, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Electronics and Telecommunications)
- Fractals, Functions, and Feedback Systems - A study of the behaviour of simple equations
- Analyzing and Visualizing Arithmetic Methods - Introducing Relaxation Factors
- Fractals revisited, Complex Equations and Polynomiographs
- Methods for finding Roots of Polynomial Equations - Determining and visualizing Seed Values and using Modification and Relaxation Factors
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Current Areas of Interest:
- Mathematics (Process Analysis and Numerical Analysis).
- Particle Physics and Cosmology
- Classical Music (from Monteverdi to Shostakovich)
- Current reading Schama (Rembrandt's Eyes), Orwell (Hommage to Catalonia), Koestler (The God that failed), Silonis (The Abruzzo Trilogy), Diamond (Collapse), Hawkins (God created the integers), Figes (Natasha's Dance), Penrose (The road to reality), Fleisch (Maxwell's Equations), Gowers - Editor (The Princeton Companion to Mathematics).
- World Affairs (economics, technology, politics)
- Global Warming; Climate Change; Limits to Growth
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