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<title>J. D. Eisenberg's Programming Experience</title>
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<div class="top-navig"> <a id="top"></a> <a href="index.html">Home Page</a> > <a href="about.html">About This Site</a> > Programming Experience
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<h1>Programming Experience</h1>
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<div class="center"> <span class="thislink">Programming</span> | <a href="teaching.html">Teaching</a> | <a href="interest.html">Interests</a>
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<h2><a name="contracts"><i>The Independent Contractor Years</i></a></h2>
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<h2>Internet</h2>
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<li>Have written CGI scripts, and Java servlets; set up Linux system running Apache server and MySQL database software at <a href="http://www.dvptechdoc.com/">DVP Techdoc</a>.</li>
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<li>Developed training courses for CGI and Cascading Style Sheets; modified and expanded JavaScript course for <a href="http://www.keypoint.com/">KeyPoint Software</a>.</li>
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<h2>Commercial Software</h2>
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<li>CD-ROM Titles from <a href="texcav.html">Texas Caviar</a></li>
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<li>Software from <a href="senari.html">Senari Software</a></li>
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<li><a href="ideafish.html">IdeaFisher</a></li>
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<h2><a name="utilities">Demo and Utility Software</a></h2>
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<li><a href="newtcks.html">Newton</a> Rolling Demo (done with CKS Partners)</li>
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<li>CD-ROM Data Retrieval Engine for <a href="texcav.html#softmart">Software Mart, Inc.</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="Apple"><i>The Apple Years</i></a></h2>
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<p>Between 1979 and 1985, I worked on several interesting <a href="appleprj.html">projects with the education software division of Apple Computer, Inc.</a></p>
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<h2><a name="Burroughs"><i>The Burroughs Years</i></a></h2>
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<p><img src="michigan.png" alt="[Map of Michigan]" width="107" height="110"> In 1978 and 1979, I worked for Burroughs in Plymouth, Michigan. Our project team was implementing a language whose goal was to make development of business software on the Burroughs B-80 mini-computer quick and efficient. </p>
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<p> Although the project did not become commercially available, it was a valuable experience for me. This was the first time I had left the university computing environment to work on a "real world" project.</p>
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<h2><a name="Delaware"><i>The University of Delaware Years</i></a></h2>
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<p>I worked as a system programmer at the <a href="http://www.udel.edu/">University of Delaware</a> in Newark, Delaware, USA. for two years.</p>
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<p>Among the things I did were:</p>
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<li>User consulting</li>
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<li>Team taught an "introduction to the Computing Center" course along with Ken Weiss.</li>
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<li>Added a "desk calculator" feature to the Burroughs B6700 CANDE editor.</li>
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<li>Wrote a mailing label utility program for the Oceanography department. (I was assisted by Dave Tall on this project.)</li>
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<li>Translated Dartmouth University's IMPRESS statistics program from BASIC to ALGOL.</li>
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<li>Wrote various small utility programs for the University's DEC-10.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="PLATO"><i>The PLATO Years</i></a></h2>
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<p>While attending the <a href="http://www.uiuc.edu/extern/UofI_intro.html">University of Illinois</a> at Urbana, I worked on the PLATO computer-assisted instruction system. This system, running on a CDC mainframe, was truly ahead of its time. In the early 1970s it was able to serve 500 users simultaneously with less than a tenth second response to every keypress. Each user had a 512 by 512 pixel-addressable graphic terminal.</p>
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<p> I started working on the elementary reading project under the direction of John T. Risken. I moved on to the Modern Hebrew project led by Dr. Roberta Stock. I worked my way up to lead programmer for the Modern Foreign Languages PLATO project, headed by Dr. M. Keith Myers.</p>
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<h2><a name="UnivIll"><i>The University of Illinois Years</i></a></h2>
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<p> As an undergraduate at the <a href="http://www.uiuc.edu/extern/UofI_intro.html">University of Illinois </a>, I took the usual range of computer science courses. I discovered the wonderful world of timesharing on the Burroughs B5500 at the Civil Engineering building. I wrote a program in ALGOL to do gymnastics scorekeeping, and used it to calculate the statistics for a national competition. I used an ASR-33 Teletype in the gym hooked up via acoustic coupler.</p>
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