Scott Kurowski's Home Page

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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 Sr. Vice President of Engineering at Digital Orchid, Inc. 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 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

• 03/30/2008 - Tetris Cube Solved - ALL 9,839 possible solutions to this wonderful and popular 4x4x4 cube puzzle are given, including my analysis, search algorithm and software to generate them!
• 02/14/2008 - Digital Orchid readies launch of Melate Movil, the national lottery of Mexico, exclusively available on Telcel mobile phones
• 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
• News & what's cool archive
  

Some work & research projects I'm enjoying

• Managing non-profit Plus One Flyers, Inc., with 900 pilots and a superb safety record easily the best flying club in southern California! [2005-present]
• Nuclear physics process patent - look for details after filing! [2006]
• "Darwin Engines" - self-programming software development systems
• SJK Research online product store
• some high-tech business ideas - maybe they're crazy - maybe not ...

Archive of some things I've built or done

• Companies started or on the "ground floor" executive team:
  • Digital Orchid - Name-branded (cellular) mobile media distribution for sports (NASCAR, ESPN, MLB, NHL, Cruz Azul), entertainment (models & celebrities) and affinity communities [2002-present]
  • DiscoverCast - Real-time peer-to-peer device and mobile networking software platform (acquired by Digital Orchid) [2001-2002]
  • Entropia - $30 million venture-funded grid computing software company I founded in my home [1996-2001]
• Distributed supercomputing grids
  • PrimeNet, the longest-running all-volunteer research grid in the world, running 24x7 at 23 teraflops on about 80,000 computers worldwide for the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), discovered the ten largest known prime numbers and is the leading contender for the EFF $100,000 prime research cooperative computing prize [1997-present]
  • Scripps Research Institute's drug research grid, now operated under IBM's World Community Grid as part of the National Institute of Health (NIH), having about 45,000 computers [2000-2002].
  • SaferMarkets University of Rochester Simon school of business stock volatility research grid (now concluded) [2000-2001].
• Research & independent studies projects
  • Experimental software research in various downloadable source code projects [1995-2002]
  • Grid-enabled Autodock molecular docking GA software for The Scripps Research Institute [2000]
  • Mathematically-derived printable template pattern to build a parabolic solar reflector (for son's school project) [1999]
  • Genetic Algorithm Solution Spectra of Reimann Zeta Function Roots [1997]
  • Nuclear & particle physics 0.5ns muon timestamp system [1997]
  • Kanerva sparse distributed memory (AI memory indexing) [1995]
  • Laplace orbit determination (celestial mechanics) [1995]
  • Solar Almanac using periodic Fourier elements (epoch 2000 +/- 300 years) [1995]
• Online Services
  • Internet Notary Service digital documents witness [1996-present]
  • Certificate Authority for S-MIME and HTTP SSL servers, registered with the Cambridge Global Trust [1996-1999]
  • Infocom's 1983 Enchanter text adventure game as a free web service (initially named Zork IV) [1997]
  • Infocom's 1984 Sorcerer text adventure game as a free web service (sequel to Enchanter) [1997]
• Various Cool Stuff
  • Software patents w/images & Aurigin, others pending [1999,2001,present]
  • A Breakfast with Knuth, Stanford Professor Emeritis of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) [1999]
  • Unisys CTOS SuperZip data compression utilities - pre-WinZip [1994]
  • Bausch & Lomb Science Medal [1982]

Some great teams I've had the priviledge & fun to work with

• Aurigin Systems / Smartpatents 1998-1999
• Convergent Technologies / Unisys / Unisys Government Systems 1990-1996
• Digital Orchid 2002-present
• Discovercast 2001-2002 (acquired by Digital Orchid)
• Entropia 1997-2001
• Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search 1996-present
• Tandem Nonstop Software & Advanced Technology Groups (now part of HP) 1996-1998
• U.S. Coast Guard 1985-1992

Hall of Fame for folks willing to let me acknowledge them


Personal interest items and info

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Last updated February 2008