Bryan Bentz Personal Background
Bryan Bentz
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A little more recent |
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Professional Activities
My company is Bentz
Engineering (brief webpage about the company). We do software engineering with an emphasis
on artificial intelligence, good user interface design, database
systems, data mining/machine learning, and 3D visualization. Applied physics
work has included building in-air acoustic arrays and doing thermodynamic modeling
of older buildings.
Activities
Current:
Former:
Education
Employment
Memberships
Interests
Some of these have their own subpages accessible from the main page. If the font is dark red,
you may wish to go back to the home page and find out more about the topic.
-
Artificial
Intelligence, particularly computational approaches to self-awareness
& qualia aspects of consciousness;
- (Very)
local history: the Quiambaug/Mistuxet
Valley
- Naval
& maritime history, from ancient to modern, including
shipwrecks, mysteries of the sea, and underwater archaeology;
- Cooking, and gardening to support that. A few fun recipes:
- Sailing;
small boats have included Lightnings,
Jet 14's, Banshees, JY 15's, Beetle Cats.
- Archaeology
& ancient history (primarily Greek/Roman); related remote sensing technologies.
- Algonquian
languages (particularly Mohegan and Pequot) of the Algic
family; there is a paper about this in the Ariston papers area.
- Travel, food, theatre.
- BZFlag virtual world
design. See my page on the game from top level.
- Genealogy:
Bentz;
also: Blew, Bushy, Cassidy,
Davis, Dionne,
Ely, Gentzler, Groff, Hall, Hersche, Hershey, Knickerbocker, Lau, Law,
O'Hara, Shetter, Siebrecht, Strayer, Swain, Swope, Ticknor, Turk - and
quite a few others.
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Writing..
Contact Information
I've dropped the "mailto:" tags because of the volume of spam
that results from people scraping them from web pages. However, my
email addresses are:
