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CARES – Top Cops Video

4 November 2007

CARES (Computer Assisted Recovery Enhancement System), a computer system for aging missing children was a joint project between the Metropolitan Toronto Police and IBM Canada Lab. CARES was the first computer-based child aging system in the world. This is TV network coverage on the press conference.

This video is CARES on a show called Top Cops from the mid-80s.
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CARES – Canada AM Video

4 November 2007

CARES (Computer Assisted Recovery Enhancement System), a computer system for aging missing children was a joint project between the Metropolitan Toronto Police and IBM Canada Lab. CARES was the first computer-based child aging system in the world. This is TV network coverage on the press conference.

This video is CARES on a show called Canada AM from the mid-80s.
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CARES (Computer Assisted Recovery Enhancement System), a computer system for aging missing children was a joint project between the Metropolitan Toronto Police and IBM Canada Lab. CARES was the first computer-based child aging system in the world. This is TV network coverage on the press conference.

This video is CARES on a show called Missing Treasures from the mid-80s.
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My Patents

21 February 2007

3 Canadian and 2 US Patents

  • Surround Sound Driver Architecture with Multiple Sound Cards. 1994. US Patent 5,630,175 – May 13, 1997, Surround Sound System. Canadian Patent 2,132,763 – March 30, 1999.
  • An Imaging System Using a Data Transmission Light Source for Subject Illumination. Canadian Patent CA 2,194,027 – December 4, 2001.
  • Dual Mode Collimated Communications Transceiver. 1996. Canadian Patent 2,194,024. – January 30, 2001.
  • Multi-simulator Co-simulation. 1999. US Patent 6,560,572 – May 6, 2003.

As I collect up some of my history, I found my list of patents. Click on a patent number to see the actual patent.

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Academic Papers

20 February 2007

When I was at IBM Canada R&D, I wrote several technical papers that now appear on the web.

  1. Multimedia: Distributed knowledge worker (DKW): a personal conferencing system
  2. A development process for large multimedia titles
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CARES

13 October 2006

CARES (Computer Assisted Recovery Enhancement System), a computer system for aging missing children announced on July 4, 1986, was a joint project between the Metropolitan Toronto Police and IBM Canada Lab. CARES was the first computer-based child-aging system in the world.
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CARES (Computer Assisted Recovery Enhancement System), a computer system for aging missing children was a joint project between the Metropolitan Toronto Police and IBM Canada Lab. CARES was the first computer-based child aging system in the world. This is TV network coverage on the press conference.

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CARES (Computer Assisted Recovery Enhancement System), a computer system for aging missing children was a joint project between the Metropolitan Toronto Police and IBM Canada Lab. CARES was the first computer-based child aging system in the world. This is one of the commercials made about the work.

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CARES (Computer Assisted Recovery Enhancement System), a computer system for aging missing children was a joint project between the Metropolitan Toronto Police and IBM Canada Lab. CARES was the first computer-based child aging system in the world. This is one of the commercials made about the work.

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Web Application Guidelines

22 October 2005

For many years now I have been writing web applications. These are some of my principals that I use in all my web applications for large corporate clients.

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