Resume Of Philip Greenspun
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`Resume
`of Philip Greenspun
`Summary:
`Business experience: started six companies and buried three. As CEO, grew an open-source enterprise
`software company to $20 million annual revenue in two years with $10,000 in capital.
`Software product development experience: 20 years. Have had the same email address since 1976:
`philg@mit.edu. Have been developing open source software since 1982. List of engineering projects
`completed is available from http://philip.greenspun.com/personal/resume-list
`Pedagogy experience: Co-developed "Software Engineering for Internet Applications" with Hal
`Abelson at MIT; it has been a successful course at MIT and is being used by computer science
`departments at 10 other universities around the world.
`Non-profit experience: Started a 501c3 foundation in December 1998. The Foundation operated a prize
`program for high-school age Web developers and a one-year post-baccalaureate program in computer
`science; the annual budget was approximately $1.5 million.
`Political experience: Testified before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee and the Subcommittee on
`Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks of the Senate Judiciary Committee
`Writing experience: four computer science textbooks, one book about North America and its people,
`numerous journal and magazine articles.
`Photography experience: started photo.net in 1993, an online community for photographers. Work
`published in dozens of print magazines and books and used for advertising (see separate photo resume).
`Aviation experience: holder of Airline Transport Pilot certificate with multi-engine, single-engine
`seaplane, and helicopter ratings; holder of flight instructor certificate with instrument and helicopter
`ratings; have flown single-engine aircraft to Alaska (twice) and just about everywhere else in North
`America and the Caribbean; have flown three coast-to-coast trips in Robinson helicopters; flew the
`Canadair Regional Jet out of JFK for a subsidiary of a major airline
`Education: three MIT degrees (including a Ph.D., but you can't call me "Dr. Greenspun" because my
`brother is a real doctor).
`Employment Experience
`2013-present: Fifth Chance Media LLC
`I develop software, write, photograph, and create videos for this publishing company whose current products
`are listed at fifthchance.com. Through Fifth Chance Media LLC I also work as a software expert witness,
`especially in cases regarding Internet software patents. I have also served as an aviation expert witness,
`testifying in front of a Federal Court jury, and as a relational database expert witness.
`1997-present: various advisory and corporate boards
`Serve as an independent member of various advisory and corporate boards, mostly for technology companies.
`Example: Joined corporate board of MIT materials science spin-off in late 2005 during $550,000 seed capital
`phase. Stepped down when company secured $10 million in venture capital in mid-2007.
`1991-present: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of
`Technology.
`Teach and expand the MIT computer science curriculum, conduct research, and supervise student research.
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`1993-2000; 2006-2007: photo.net
`Started, programmed, financed, and managed this online learning community as a personal hobby. Spun it off
`in 2000 to a team of entrepreneurs who attempted to make it a profitable business. Took it back over in mid-
`2006 to clean up the content, software, and balance sheet (crippled with debt). With 600,000 registered users
`and 60 million page views per month, sold the company in April 2007 to NameMedia.
`1997 through March 2000: ArsDigita Corporation
`Started, financed, and managed this company, which developed an open-source toolkit for building
`collaborative Internet applications. Grew the company profitably from 5 part-time people to 80 full-timers
`and revenue of $20 million per year. Between January and March 2000, negotiated and closed a $38 million
`venture capital investment from Greylock and General Atlantic Partners. Handed over the reins to a team of
`professional managers brought in by the venture capitalists.
`February 1988 through August 1990: Isosonics Corporation
`Founded company to develop a product that stored digital data with consumer video recorders. Co-designed
`custom digital signal processor. Developed simulation environment, complete simulator for digital audio
`recorder (1.4 Mbits/second), microcode compiler on the Symbolics Lisp Machine. Used Lisp tools to develop
`error correction microcode and refine DSP architecture. Co-designed three phase locked loops. With partners,
`developed system for auditing television broadcasts nationwide by monitoring commercials and compiling
`reports for advertisers. We designed a single board that tunes a chosen channel, recognizes tagged
`advertisements and makes a record for each ad of time of broadcast, number of fields, video quality and color
`burst presence. Served as president of Isosonics from its inception until its dissolution.
`April 1986 through November 1989: ConSolve Incorporated
`Co-founded this construction automation company. With partner, developed initial product, obtained
`financing (from PaineWebber Ventures), hired software development, marketing and support staff,
`established R&D partnership with Tektronix, obtained government contracts and sold software. Was active
`participant in all important planning, legal, and management activities. Wrote every line of code in the first
`system shipped to a customer (Caterpillar).
`November 1984 through August 1985: ICAD, Inc.
`Co-founded company with three partners. With Patrick O'Keefe, developed Lisp software to automate
`mechanical engineering. The ICAD System was initially primarily intended for large steel structures, e.g., air-
`cooled heat exchangers, offshore oil rigs, coal-fired power plants, but has been extended to many general ME
`problems.
`Company went public in January 1995 as Concentra with a market valuation of $50 million and was
`subsequently acquired by Oracle Corporation.
`June 1983 through November 1984: Symbolics, Inc.
`Developed VLSI tools, including automatic layout functions and worked on the system architecture for the
`Ivory microprocessor (the base of all Symbolics products sold in the late 1980s). Wrote parts of the
`Symbolics operating system.
`June 1982 through June 1983: Hewlett-Packard Labs
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`Wrote packet-switched network simulation software on Symbolics Lisp Machine. Helped architect, simulate
`and design prototype of HP's Precision Architecture RISC computer. The prototype took two man-years to
`complete and ran at VAX 11/780 speed in June 1983. This architecture became the basis of HP's computer
`product line for 15 years and then became the basis for the 64-bit generation of Intel processors.
`1978 to 1982
`Paid tuition and living expenses through MIT with employment and contract work for Wang Laboratories,
`Verbex Corporation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and other organizations.
`Education (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
`Ph.D. 1999 in electrical engineering and computer science. Thesis title: Architecture and Implementation of
`Online Communities.
`S.M. 1993 in electrical engineering and computer science. Thesis title: Site Controller: A system for
`computer-aided civil engineering and construction.
`S.B. 1982 in mathematics. Completed coursework for electrical engineering S.B. with emphasis on digital
`systems and signal processing. Took undergraduate and graduate computer science courses, with an emphasis
`on algorithms. Took graduate courses in microeconomics and neurophysiology.
`Selected Technical Publications
`Software Engineering for Internet Applications (online and MIT Press 2006), Philip and Alex's Guide to Web
`Publishing (Morgan Kaufmann; 1999), Database Backed Web Sites (Ziff Davis Press; 1997), Travels with
`Samantha, a book about North America; SITE CONTROLLER: A system for computer-aided civil
`engineering and construction.; numerous journal articles; dozens of magazine articles. United States patents
`5,172,363 (digital audio recorder circuit), 5,150,310 (location system), and 5,964,298 (computer-aided
`earthmoving system).
`Most of my relevant publications are linked from philip.greenspun.com or fifthchance.com.
`Personal
`Birthdate: September 28, 1963. Some familiarity with French, Italian, and German.
`philg@mit.edu
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