NATHANIEL POLISH, Ph.D.
`Daedalus Technology Group, Inc.
`135 West 26th Street
`New York, NY 10001
`(212) 684-3890
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`President
`Daedalus Technology Group, Inc. successor to NPS ASSOCIATES
`Co-founded computer consulting firm. Employs up to twenty people as needed.
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`NEW YORK, NY
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`Intellectual Property Consulting. Various anonymous clients.
`NEW YORK, NY
`Consulting on patent valuation and strategy: Act as an advisor on technical and intellectual
`property matters to various clients. Developed intellectual property for various companies. 2001-
`present.
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`NEW YORK, NY
`SpokenHub.
`Predictive dialer deployment and operation: During the 2012 election cycle assembled and ran a
`team of engineers to deploy, debug, and operate a large scale outbound calling server farm. This
`server farm supported hundreds of agents and millions of minutes of calling. 2012.
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`NEW YORK, NY
`Risk Solutions International.
`Risk management: Developed technology platform to allow for complex question and answer
`sessions with airport managers. The results of the sessions then generated planning documents used
`in risk management. Results were published as part of a Transportation Research Board research
`program. 2011-2013.
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`Smart Systems/Specialty Acquirer.
`NEW YORK, NY
`Advanced Transit fare collection: Founding member of board of directors. Advisor on technical
`and intellectual property matters. Developed intellectual property for the company. The company
`is engaged in the development and sale of advanced fare collection systems for mass transit using
`RFID technologies. 2004-present.
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`FORT WORTH, TX
`Skywi.
`Wireless broadband: Founding board of directors member. Advisor on technical and intellectual
`property matters. The company provides a variety of wireless broadband services to semi-rural
`customers using mesh networks. 2004-2009.
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`NEW YORK, NY
`Placecorp.
`Wireless text messaging system: Designed and developed a very large scale, multi-platform text
`messaging system. Acted as the lead technologist for a startup. In this capacity attended many
`venture capitol meetings and developed all technical sections to the business plans. The system
`integrated advanced Interactive Voice Response (IVR) with email, paging, and SMS messaging.
`Oversaw and planned initial development of very small paging device to me manufactured in very
`high volume. 2000-2001.
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`NEW YORK, NY
`Marketboy.
`Distributed market making system: Provided a range of services in the areas of product definition,
`specification, and implementation strategy. Marketboy was a distributed system that allowed
`prospective purchasers and vendors to make bid and ask offers for proposed transactions. 2000.
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`NEW YORK, NY
`Savos.
`Telephone to streaming audio bridge: Developed, designed and deployed an industrial strength
`IVR system that allows users to access streaming media via their cell phones. The system supports
`up to 96 streams on a single chassis. Developed web based content management system and
`interface for customizable user preferences. 2000.
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`deliverENow.
`Online delivery system: Developed a proof of concept prototype of online delivery system. This
`consisted of a stock clerk server written for Windows CE (Clio) with a CDPD network connection. It
`demonstrated how purchase and delivery information would be sent to an in-store stock person who
`prepares them for pickup by a member of the deliverENow courier network. Provided strategic
`technical advice. Served on board of advisors. Wrote technical specification of business and logistical
`components of the system. 2000.
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`NEW YORK, NY
`Togglethis.
`Animation distribtion system: Developed critical components of initial version of email-delivered
`animation system. Components included MacroMedia Director Xtras as well as encryption
`functions. Developed tools to distribute and manage Togglethis’s content, DTG built a custom
`UNIX email list-server. This server allowed Toggle administrators to create groups, upload episodes,
`and schedule the delivery of their content. Developed system architecture and language specification
`for the next version of the IC Engine, which drives the characters. 1998-1999.
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`BOSTON, MA
`JuniorNet.
`Children’s on-line service: Designed, developed and lead the implementation of a large scale
`network system for delivery of children’s entertainment and education content. Worked with the
`president and other key players to fit a technology strategy to corporate goals. System is required to
`serve from 200,000 to 1,000,000 subscribers and be supportable over three to five years. All project
`goals met within a $1,000,000+ budget. 1997-2000.
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`NEW YORK, NY
`One Click Charge.
`Provide a wide range of consulting services starting with technology evaluation for the principal
`investor. Provided services in the areas of product definition, team formation and implementation
`strategy. Developed significant components of a substantial Internet micropayment and
`authentication system. 1998-2000.
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`WEEHAWKEN, NJ
`Swatch.
`Ticketing system: Implemented a radio frequency identification (RFID) based system for providing
`access to the 1998 Goodwill Games utilizing RFID tagged wristwatches. 1998-1999.
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`Instant Video Technologies, Inc./Burst.com
`SAN FRANCISCO, CA
`Burstware --. Designed and developed a series of products to deliver digital video and audio
`materials over wide-area internet using consumer grade computers. Products were designed to fit
`within the client’s existing patent portfolio. 1995-1997.
`Technical evaluation --. Provided technology strategy and evaluation services and acted as
`Technology Director. 1995-1997.
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`BETHESDA, MD
`Assurenet.
`Internet Insurance system --. Designed and developed a system for utilization of the Internet for the
`distribution and control of insurance agent support software. System can handle tens of thousands
`of simultaneous users. Member of Board of Directors. 1995-2002.
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`New Zealand Antarctic Project (NZAP) and US Antarctic Program (USAP).
`ANTARCTICA
`Penguin Weighbridge – Designed, developed, and deployed system for tracking the comings and
`goings, weights, and Ids of Adelie penguins in their natural environment on three colonies on Ross
`Island, Antarctica. Systems run continuously for months in adverse conditions. 1994-present.
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`Electronic Digital Documents, Inc.
`Check Image Compression system --. 1995-1999.
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`NEW YORK, NY
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`American Veterinary Identification Devices, Inc.
`NORCO, CA
`AVID reader -- Designed and developed digital computer components of radio frequency
`identification system. Work involved imbedded microcontrollers and real-time digital signal
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`processing in very noisy environment. Designed communications protocols including encryption
`and error checking schemes. Product in high volume (50,000 unit) production. 1988-1995.
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`BEVERLY HILLS, CA
`Bannon & Co.
`Financial models -- Developed detailed financial model of business with 49 separate operating
`entities in six separate operating companies under two holding companies. Models included
`projections and actuals on a quarterly basis over ten years. 1993.
`Technology valuation -- Provided technology evaluation and valuation services for private
`placement memoranda for technology companies. 1993.
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`LONG ISLAND, NY
`Amprobe Instrument, Inc.
`REMCON tester -- Designed and implemented product life-cycle test fixture for a new and
`innovative solid state switch. Test fixture used by Underwriters Labs for approval. 1988.
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`Personal Computer Card Corporation
`NEW YORK, NY
`Smart Cards -- Designed smart card reader/writer system. Performed general design and
`component selection and wrote software for smart card communications. System design
`implemented in commercial product. 1987.
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`The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
`NEW YORK, NY
`Voice editing systems -- Designed and built all parts of four generations of interactive voice editing
`systems. Editing systems produce output used in extensive, high quality speech synthesis system
`that is part of larger information delivery system. The systems are built on networks of computers
`in a variety of programming languages and systems. The system involved interactive user
`interfaces, screen windows, signal processing, and voice file systems. 1982-1991.
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`1997-2001 Co-Founder, Director and CTO
`I-RECALL, INC.
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`NEW YORK, NY
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`1996-1999 Co-Founder, Director, CTO & Principal Product Designer
`NEW YORK, NY
`SOLILOQUY, INC.
`Natural language interfaces to databases: Co-founded in 1996 a company to provide next
`generation interfaces to structured databases. Developed prototype system using speech recognition
`and speech synthesis to provide access to music and ecommerce databases. Raised $1.5 million in
`angel investments. Company has raised a total of $8 million through a variety of institutional and
`individual investors. Hired replacement CTO and exited company in 1999.
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`1991-1992 President & Principal Product Designer
`NEW YORK, NY
`SIMPLICITY COMPUTING, INC.
`Co-founded in 1991 a computer peripherals manufacturing company concentrating on portable
`products with international mass-market appeal. Main product: Simplicity Portable Drive, an
`IBMPC parallel port connected, portable disk storage system. Marketed domestically and in 25+
`countries. Products marketed direct via telemarketers, trade shows, sales reps, and national
`advertising. Products distributed through dealers, distributors and national catalog houses.
`Company employed 10 people.
`•Wrote business plan and raised $350,000 startup funding
`•Established marketing plans
`•Directed marketing of products in trade shows, national advertisements and focus groups
`•Managed employees
`•Designed hardware and software for products
`•Supervised hardware & software implementation teams. First units shipped less than six months
`from start of project.
`•Supervised all aspects of manufacturing and testing process. Contracted with four
`manufacturing facilities and many suppliers for production.
`•Supervised and established call-in customer support services
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`1989-1999 President & CEO
`MEASUREMENT & CONTROL PRODUCTS, INC.
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`NEW YORK, NY
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`Founded in August 1989 an electronic products development company. M&CP designs, develops,
`markets and sells its own products through retail, wholesale and catalog channels domestically and
`abroad. All manufacturing is contracted. Company was profitable in its first year of operation.
`Flagship product:
`BitView -- Hand held RS-232 data communications diagnostic monitor. Invented, developed and
`produced hardware and software. Developed and oversaw implementation of marketing strategies,
`budgets, and business plans. Product currently in third production run.
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`education
`1980-1993
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`COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
`Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 1993,
`Thesis: Mixed Distance Measures for the Optimization of Concatenative Vocabularies in Speech Synthesis.
`MPhil in Computer Science, December 1989.
`MS in Computer Science, December 1987.
`BA in Physics, Columbia College, May 1984.
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`teaching
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`1997 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
`Adjunct Professor, Computer Science.
`Advanced undergraduate course: Artificial Intelligence.
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`NEW YORK, NY
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`1989 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
`Graduate Lecturer, Computer Science.
`Advanced undergraduate course: Software Design. Taught 68 advanced undergraduates. Supervised
`two teaching assistants. Students implemented full spreadsheet application under UNIX.
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`NEW YORK, NY
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`1984-1985
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`CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
`Adjunct Professor, Experimental Psychology.
`Graduate-level course: Computer Methods in Experimental Psychology.
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`NEW YORK, NY
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`publications
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`2010 Michael L. Beigel, Nathaniel Polish, Steven R. Frank, and Robert E. Malm. Electronic Identification
`System with Improved Sensitivity. United States Patent 7,737,821B2. June 15, 2010.
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`2009
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`2002
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`Silbernagl, Martin and Polish, Nathaniel. Learning Fare Collection System for Mass Transit. United States
`Patent 7,568,617. August 4, 2009.
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`Silbernagl, Martin and Polish, Nathaniel. Learning Fare Collection System for Mass Transit. United States
`Patent 7,566,003. July 28, 2009.
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`Beigel, Michael L.; Polish, Nathaniel; Frank, Steven R.;Malm, Robert E. Electronic identification system with
`improved sensitivity. United States Patent 6,472,975. October 29, 2002.
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`2002 Nathaniel Polish. Bilateral speech system. Speech dialogs for database access. United States Patent
`6,430,531. August 6, 2002.
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`1999 Nathaniel Polish. System and method for distributing and managing digital video information in a video
`distribution network. United States Patent 5,963,202. October 5, 1999.
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`1993 Michael L. Beigel, Nathaniel Polish and Robert E. Malm. Multi-Mode Identification System.
`Fundamental RFID technology. United States Patent 5,235,326. August 10, 1993.
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`1991 Nathaniel Polish. Mixed Distance Measures for Synthetic Speech Evaluation. In Proceedings of
`ICASSP-91, Toronto, Canada, 1991.
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`1988 Nathaniel Polish. A Distributed Signal Processing Facility for Speech Research. In Proceedings of
`AVIOS88, San Francisco, CA. October 4-6 1988.
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`1987 Nathaniel Polish. Mixed Distance Measures for Optimizing Concatenative Vocabularies for Speech
`Synthesis: A Thesis Proposal. Columbia University Department of Computer Science technical
`report number CUCS-310-87, 1987.
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`1983 M. Morris, N. Polish, B. Zuckerman, and N. Kaifu. The Temperature of Molecular Gas in the Galactic
`Center Region. The Astronomical Journal, 88(8):1228-1235, August 1983.
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`research
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`professional
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`other
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`Computer Speech, Distributed Systems, Interactive Environments.
`Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Technology Policy.
`Knowledge-Based Approaches to Signal Processing.
`Computational Physics, Non-Linear Dynamics.
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`International Society for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
`Association of Computing Machinery (ACM),
`American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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`Foreign Policy, Political Science, Long Distance Bicycling, United States Space Program.
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`grants AT&T Special Projects Grant of $25,000 for synthetic speech, 1986.
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`Financial support for Ph.D. work was provided by the New York State Science and
`Technology Foundation Center for Advanced Technology in Computers and
`Information Systems at Columbia University.
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`Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, 2003. Month-long workshop in
`agent-based models, non-linear systems, and complexity.
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`1982-present
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`Technology development projects
`Some technology development projects have included:
`Wildlife Tracking Systems -- Implemented a remote monitoring system to track and weigh Adelie
`penguins on Ross Island, Antarctica. System was debugged on-site and made to function in
`adverse environmental circumstances. 1994-1997.
`Internet Systems -- Implemented a LINUX Internet server with FTP and gopher services. Installed
`and Internet client for IBM/PC platform. 1994-1995.
`Image Compression Technology -- Developed proof-of-concept system for a system to compress
`images of checks to very small file size. 1994.
`Biomedical Systems -- Implemented a large biomedical system used in patient diagnostics.
`Provided all necessary materials for Food and Drug Administration compliance. 1992-1993.
`Synthetic Speech Systems -- Implemented and supported several generations of synthetic speech
`systems for commercial as well as research purposes. 1985-1999.
`Graphics -- Developed high-speed drivers for several graphical devices and evaluated their
`applicability for interactive uses. Devices included: Vectrix, RAMTEK, Apple Lisa, and IBM
`Enhanced Graphic Adapter. 1983-1987.
`Voice Boards -- Specified function requirements for several generations of high quality voice boards
`for Q-bus (PDP-11), Apple, MultiBus, and IBMPC bus. Developed high-speed drivers for each of
`the boards. 1982-1986.
`Video Disk and Touch Screens -- Developed experimental interactive system utilizing computer
`controlled video disks and touch screens. 1982.
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`1994-present
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`Intellectual property projects
`A separate document detailing intellectual property projects is available on request.
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`tools
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`Languages commonly used:
`Pascal 1980-1988
`C 1985-present.
`Other languages used: C++, Lisp, Java, and FORTRAN.
`Assembler:
`Intel 8048, 8051, 8088-pentium
`Motorola 680xx (on Sun workstations)
`TI 320xx signal processors
`Zilog Z8, Z80
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`Protocols include:
`TCP/IP, UDP, RPC and NFS
`Operating systems commonly used: UNIX, MSDOS, Windows and p-system.
`In circuit emulators.
`Database tools.
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`contact
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`Fax: (212)684-3875
`Internet: polish@dtgroup.com
`Office: (212)684-3890
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`Academic and business references available upon request.
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