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Scott Kurowski's
Home Page
Welcome to my home page!
I am an entrepreneurial software systems
technologist and engineering executive for digital infrastructures,
applications, services and related products. The average mid-stage
startup corporate valuation and initial capital investment in which I am
the leading technical resource is about $100 million and $25 million USD,
respectively.
I am currently Chief Technology Officer
and VP of Engineering at
Digital Orchid, Inc./Sorteo Games, LLC and have ongoing independent
experimental work in various kinds of cool, fun and perhaps lucrative research
when not flying as a private pilot. I am also chief executive of
Plus One Flyers, Inc. and
Rassavong Scholarship
Foundation, Executive VP of
Mersenne Research, Inc., and a board director of all three
organizations.
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I am humbled and
surprised with the amount of popular interest in my
work! Thanks to all of you who gently pinged me to
get this site rolling.
News & what's cool
- 10/14/2009 - The
Electronic Frontier Foundation awards us the $100,000
Cooperative Computing Award for the discovery of Mersenne
prime M45, 243,112,609-1 !
This same discovery earned
Time Magazine's 29th Best Invention of 2008
(UCLA is a participant in
GIMPS PrimeNet).
- 08/25/2009 -
The Fibonacci Quarterly mathematics journal publishes our research
paper, On the Discovery of the 45th and 46th Known Mersenne Primes.
- 08/25/2009 -
My derivation of the mass of 1 bit
of information at 150°F,
mb = 3.61x10-35 g.
- 08/24/2009 -
Rassavong
Scholarship Foundation awards 2009
scholarship to U.C. Berkeley student from San Diego,
CA.
- 07/01/2009 -
Reappointed third-term
President of Plus One Flyers, Inc., and 5th year on the
board of directors.
- 05/05/2009 -
Return to Desert Flight Camp at
L25 on the south rim of the western Grand Canyon.
- 04/12/2009 -
GIMPS participant Odd Magnar
Strindmo in Norway discovers Mersenne prime M47, 242,643,801 - 1
on PrimeNet !
- 04/10/2009 - Mersenne Research
(GIMPS)
featured on National Public Radio (NPR)
- 02/13/2009 - How to play to
innovate and succeed - book recommendation:
If you manage a team or an organization, you need to get
Innovation Games by Luke Hohmann.
Games uniquely packages the creative process to get the
most out of your team's inventive powers.
It's fun, productive, and the entire team wins. My first
exposure to Luke's "games" was at
Aurigin Systems when we worked together. Since then my
teams have successfully applied
his games and their variations, and always with great results.
Several decentralized and
semi-anonymous features of the games are crucial
'field-levelers' for brilliant people who tend to
quietly allow strong personalities to dominate groups; instead,
they actively participate and share in
the value-development and rewards of a superior innovation or
solution. The entire group comes
away from the exercise feeling that something good just
happened, and having invested their
creative capital so constructively builds a powerful sense of
team ownership of the product or plan.
- 02/21/2009 - Third
Where's George bill
received as change today
- 11/03/2008 -
Our 45th Mersenne Prime Earns #29 on Time's Top 50 Best Inventions of 2008
(UCLA runs part of GIMPS PrimeNet)
- 11/02/2008 - Sorteo Games launches
Cachito Movil
SMS Loteria Nacional, the national lottery of Mexico, on
cell phones, one of our products.
- 09/16/2008 -
GIMPS PrimeNet discovers TWO new Mersenne primes
for EFF's $100,000 cooperative computing award
- 08/15/2008 -
Rassavong
Scholarship Foundation awards 2008
scholarship to Georgetown University student from Valley Center,
CA.
- 05/09/2008 -
Our 2008 Desert Flight Camp at
L25 on the south rim of the western Grand Canyon.
- 03/30/2008 - Puzzle Cubes - my
software, analysis and solutions to for these popular and
difficult puzzle cubes:
- 03/15/2008 -
Digital Orchid launches Melate
Movil, the 2nd national lottery of Mexico, exclusively available
on Telcel mobile phones, one
of our products.
- 05/01/2007 -
Rent my Cirrus SR22
airplane in San Diego, California,
through
Plus One Flyers
- 04/02/2007 - 10th
anniversary of the operational PrimeNet
volunteer distributed supercomputing grid!
- 12/15/2006 -
GPS Measurement of Aircraft Glide Ratio
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News &
what's cool archive
Some work & research
projects I'm enjoying
Archive of
some things I've built or done
- Companies started or on the "ground
floor" executive team:
- Distributed supercomputing
grids
- Research & independent studies projects
- Online Services
- Various Cool Stuff
Some great
teams I've had the privilege & fun to work with
Hall of Fame
for
folks willing to let me acknowledge them
Personal
interest items and info
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