Bland Ewing Vitae

• Education
• Professional Experience
• Patents
• Research Statement
• Ewing Publications

Education

• Graduate Study, Entomology, University of California-Berkeley, 1970
• BA, Biological Science, University of California-Irvine, 1965

  Professional Experience

• Disability due to Huntington's Disease, 1988-- (active scientific collaboration with BS Yandell, JF Barbieri and RF Luck since 1997)
• Co-founder/Programmer, GraphOn, 1982-1992 (third-party hardware and software testbed for Apple; first microprocessor-driven graphics workstation in 1984; disability leave in 1988)
• Scientist/Programmer, SynerTek, 1980-1982 (graphical user interface system based on Motorola 6809 and later chip technologies) Founder, MicroGraphics, 1978-1980 (graphics software on KIM, 6502-based microcomputer)
• Instructor/Scientist, Entomology, University of California-Berkeley, 1969-1978 (taught with Prof. DL Wood for one year "Man and his Environment: Crisis and Conflicts"; worked under Wood on Integrated Pest Management project in bark beetles; supervised BS Yandell)
• Research Assistant, Biological Science, University of California-Irvine, 1965-1968 (graduate research on population ethology; studied briefly with Whittaker; genetic computer simulations on IBM 7090, first solid state computer)
• Research Assistant, University of California-Riverside, 1960-1964 (various projects in biological, chemical and mathematical sciences)
• Lab Technician, Section 23, Guidance Techniques Research, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1956-1960 (worked on "Project Deal", the Explorer Satellite program; mapped satellite trajectories and sited ground stations using IBM 709 vacuum tube-based computer, the largest of its time; initials BE are etched on Explorer batteries)

  Patents

• 3,186,872: Continuous gas concentration cell energy conversion, 1 Jun 1965. (fuel cell)
• 5,274,794: Method and apparatus for transferring coordinate data between a host computer and display device. With WA Eckert; assigned to GraphOn Corporation, 22 Jan 1991. (bitmap graphics)

  Research Statement

  Developed modeling approach focused on event-driven competing risks rather than on time-driven dynamical models. This provides economies in computation as well as intuitive, graphical tools for biologists to directly incorporate their knowledge of field events that generate results that can be tested in the field.
• Ewing Bibliography