![]() ![]() lived in Toronto, Ontario in the 1970s.received his MBA in Finance and Marketing from McMaster University in 1974.married Jane Barley in St Catharines in 1973.received his MA in Physics when he dropped out of Stony Brook in 1972.Played chess for money in Washington Square.sold the Merit Student Encyclopedia door-to-door as a summer job.was accepted into the PhD program in Physics at Stanford, Cornell and SUNY Stony Brook when he was 20.designed circuits for a flat screen TV at Autotelic in 1970.Six Elements on 20 Meters 73 Magazine #141 June 1972 designed a 6 element delta loop beam that fit in a suburban back yard.created artificially intelligent aleatory text art works in 1968.created computer generated ascii art using a CDC 6400 computer.worked for Canada Customs on the Queenston-Lewiston bridge.represented McMaster at the Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship in 1969.studied Math, Physics, Fine Art, Philosophy and Psychology at McMaster University (1968-1971), where he lived in New House, Whidden Hall with.Narrowly escaped the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslavakia in 1968.Witnessed the student protests in Paris, 1968.With a man who danced with a girl who danced with the Prince of Wales. danced with a girl who told me she had danced with the Prince of Wales and that henceforth every girl.represented Canada at the London International Youth Science Fortnight, 1968.built a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer in his basement as a teenager, as one does.published articles on electronics and radio communications in various technical journals while in High School and University.used the phone patch to connect troops in Gaza and scientists in Antarctica with their families in Canada and the US by ham radio.The Garden Patch: A Junk-Box Phone Patch CQ Magazine August 1971. designed a phone patch to connect his ham radio to the telephone network.His father was licensed in 1986, and took the same call. Was Niagara Regional Chess Champion in 1968. Played in the A.N.Myer Chess Club and the Niagara Falls Chess Club (mostly elderly Eastern Europeans who met in a smoky room over the YMCA).was a finalist at International Science Fairs and Canada-Wide Science Fairs in 1964,1965,1966,1967 and won the Grand Prize in 1968.showed projects at the Niagara Regional Science Fairs in 1964, 1965, 1966, 19.designed a "Mars lander" which detected microbial life on the roof of his house in 1965.interfaced a surplus Model 15 teletype to a homebrew computer in 1965 and programmed it to play chess openings and present quizes.designed and built an analog computer to successfully predict the 1964 US Presidential election from early results.went to A.N.Myer Secondary School in Niagara Falls from 1963 to 1968. ![]()
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