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David A. Maluf Ph.D.

NASA: (2000-) I have been involved at NASA under the government mobility assignment with the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center. My competence is in advanced computer science applications, new technology development that enables a new era of exploration, extending human capacity through novel utilization of human/computer interactions, data understanding, and enhancing NASA data centric operations.	At NASA, I am a Principle Investigator and I manage multiple projects in conjunction with other US agencies such as Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). I participate in strategic planning and have engaged in the planning process related to numerous NASA space and aeronautics programs.	Stanford University: (1995-1996) I was a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. I was mainly involved in Information Technology and was associated with the database (infolab) lab as well as the design, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of large systems, heterogeneous databases, knowledge bases, and how to compose information systems.
Industry Leadership: (1996-1997) I pursued my interest in natural science and completed my premedical studies. The merging of information systems and biology in the mid 90's led me to be involved in a leading edge technology in bio-informatics and genomic research at Incyte Pharmaceuticals. I was part of the development of LifeSeek and LifeTools a comprehensive system for managing the explosion of genomic data in both public and private databases.	Science Gate Bay (1998) I founded Science Gate Bay an open information system, which dealt with biotechnology data. Science Gate Bay core technology devised to smoothly integrate with existing operating systems. Science Gate Bay was acquired for its assets by CapEpsilon Inc. to address storage solution. CapEpsilon main customer is Xyratex, a Storage Solution Company.
	TigerMe (2007) TigerMe is an ubiqutous environment that works on any computing platform, as small as a cell phone and as big as a supercomputer. TigerMe delivers mainly internet services fully integrated with XML database capabilities and full text search in a single core. This environment transforms the services layers availabe today to a 100x benchmark.	Address to: David A. Maluf Ph.D. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center Mail Stop 269-2 Moffett Airfield, CA 94035-1000 (650) 604-0611 David.A.Maluf@nasa.gov

Scientific Background

Information: David Maluf’s background is in modeling with a main focus on heterogeneous information, human and organizations. Development of knowledge management systems to overlay information systems for intelligent information integration and exchange.  Systems: Maluf have started in late 80s and early 90’s with statistical systems; in particular, stochastic processes and system identification [Stochastic processes are a diverse field. As a matter of fact, stochastic systems is considered one of Maluf’s earliest research experiences.] Current leading work is knowledge discovery.  Applied Intelligent Systems: Initially, Maluf was introduced to the concept of Artificial Intelligence in systems theory in his early graduate research, which involved the application of the methodology and foundational aspects of applying mathematical logic to problems. Later, other innovations have proven to be very successful from both the theoretical and practical side. Since then, Maluf have been involved in the application of numerous researches in intelligent systems revolving around uncertainty modeling and pattern recognition. Computer vision and visual modeling and world modeling through sensing, which was Maluf’s second step in science, which earned him his Ph.D. from McGill University, Canada.  Moving to Stanford University and working on knowledge modeling and logical foundations was eminent. He became fascinated with ontology modeling-- both at a computer science level and at an epistemology level. His modeling approach recently has become simple: drop the assumptions made in modeling by the predecessors as it drives the complexity of today. Today Maluf is a leader in the database field, the foundation where true decisions are derived from.

Education

Ph.D. McGill University, Canada 1995, Master of Engineering, McGill University, Canada 1991.

Public Activities and Leadership

Industry, Public ‘Team Development’ One of my hobbies, which not until recently got it well ironed out, were novel techniques in Team Development. My intention was to produce a proactive, risk taking, team functioning as a beach-head, mainly in product development (A beach head is a word borrowed from WWII and are the first troops that land on the beach before an invasion). The growth I have desired requires such strength and devotion to what ever we were up to. I used these techniques in supporting the activities I was involved in at NASA and the public in the past few years. The concepts became well established for me, for me to execute over and over again. In fact, there have always been beach-head teams; they just haven't been formally recognized as a body of professionals until relatively recently. In the past, people like consultants, mentors, managers, and friends, influenced and helped to solve problems and plan for the future. I found that working with a beach-head type team, is by far superior. I realized this kind work becomes addictive since I am constantly working with a balanced and powerfully skilled people. My main goal is to produce great results. Products spun out under this style of operation: NX also CPX (joined product development with Xerox), Business Intelligence (NASA integrated dashboard), XDB (Schema-less database, Computer World award winning), OFX (ScienceGate), ShareMe (tigerme.com) etc. A true series of world class Technologies in Government and Industry It is impossible to change people, but it is possible to motivate them for the change. Since 2001 I addressed the public in motivational activities for over 1000 hours and over 2000 people with at least 3 hours minimum of direct interactions. In 2006, I started a new team, the “icarus report,” dedicated towards public environmental awareness. This includes raising funds to support over 1000 hours in labor and cost of studio production, artists, and documentary production experts. Photo: Maluf addressing with his AEN team new collaborators at NASA, before signing the an MOA.

Awards

National and International

1. Turning Goals Into Reality Award (2003), NASA

2. Turning Goals Into Reality Award (2004), NASA

3. Best Commercialization Technology (2004), NASA

4. NASA Space Act Award (2006)

5. Outstanding Service Award (2005)

Personal (Biography)

Around 1970, I began my school career defying the teaching system similar to my piano lessons, which I had from age six to age thirteen. At the age of six, I entered a French Jesuit school. I studied physics, mathematics and humanities, and in particular the different aspects of languages, beginning around 1974. I resisted school all along my education. I would question everything taught. I spent days rediscovering the basic principles of mathematics on my own rather than simply taking it for granted. This included hours spent on deriving PI at the age of nine. Perhaps my luck carried me through the challenges of the school systems to college without getting expelled, and without flunking a single course. By the time I graduated, I was fluent in multiple languages besides French and English and had experienced three distinct cultures in their own settings. Language as an access of way of being became later in the reach of my hand for my recent interests in “Rethinking Reality.” _____ Literature was not the only inspiration I had. Being part of a genealogy of famous novelist and poets, science has its place; At McGill university, I dwelled in the theory of systems in 1988 for three years. Intrigued by theory of the Human sensing system, I focused my research in computer vision--a fundamental aspect of Artificial Intelligence. I earned my doctorate degree from McGill University in 1995 for a thesis on World Modeling. I dedicated the thesis to my Family. I started publishing my work on ontology in my first three essays (The Principle of Aging, Non-Deterministic Events, and Belief Functions). Two of them have been published in journals. While I was at the premedical school and at the same time completing my Ph.D., I came to examine the phenomenon of epistemology of belief in Humans from a neurophysiology, science, and human interpretations. However, by that time, I had completed my Ph.D. and started teaching at McGill University. My interest in writing about natural science had dropped and I opted to publish a textbook (Engineering and Automation, McGill University) with the motivating advice of my former school advisor.

After failing the entrance exam to become a physician, I started teaching for the first time on the topics of ontology and epistemology, but as a new emerging computer science student at Stanford University. I have planned to use this route to influence a pathway to the medical field. While at Stanford, I wrote many scientific papers and opted for future plans to become a scholarly gentleman. I believe now that I had the good fortune not to pass the school of medicine examinations. I would have had to stay in school four additional years in order to study in the medical field. Fortunately, I managed to jump-start my interests in biology through my involvement in biotechnology companies in Silicon Valley including the founding my own companies in the late nineties.  I realized that I was drifting from my scholarly plans in natural sciences. In 1998, I accepted a job at NASA as a senior scientist, shortly after turning down a university professorship.

At the same time, I continued teaching, but instead devoted my time to the public as a transformational speaker on ‘language as access to way of being’. I have led the public in many educational institutions to over hundreds of people. I have been involved with the US government under the government mobility assignment, holding many principal roles as well a program manager post. I completed a wide range of projects from physics to biologically inspired and intelligent systems as well as studies in Human and Organizations. Along my natural science quest, I have started a series of essays challenging the purpose of NASA to ‘Rethink Reality,’ which is being written in my spare time. With my involvement at NASA, I wrote many scientific papers and was awarded NASA’s special awards Turning Goals into Reality on two different occasions. I am presently the inventor of numerous patents.

Selected Abstracts (1991- ..)

Towards G2G: Systems of Technology Database Systems (2005) Approach and methodology for developing Government-to-Government (G2G) Systems of Technology Database Systems. G2G will deliver technologies for distributed and remote integration of technology data for internal use in analysis and planning as well as for external communications. G2G enables NASA managers, engineers, operational teams and information systems to “compose” technology roadmaps and plans by selecting, combining, extending, specializing and modifying components of technology database systems. G2G will interoperate information and knowledge that is distributed across organizational entities involved that is ideal for NASA future Exploration Enterprise….	Sensing Super-position: Human Sensing Beyond the Visual Spectrum (2006) The coming decade of fast, cheap and miniaturized electronics and sensory devices opens new pathways for the development of sophisticated equipment to overcome limitations of the human senses. This paper addresses the technical feasibility of augmenting human vision through Sensing Super-position by mixing natural Human sensing. The current implementation of the device translates visual and other passive or active sensory instruments into sounds, which become relevant when the visual resolution is insufficient for very difficult and particular sensing tasks….	On Space Exploration and Human Error: A Paper on Reliability and Safety (2005) NASA space exploration should largely address a problem class in reliability and risk management stemming primarily from human error, system risk and multi-objective trade-off analysis by conducting research into system complexity, risk characterization and modeling, and system reasoning. It is probable that space exploration will partially experience similar known or unknown risks embedded in the Apollo missions, Shuttle or Station unless something alters how NASA will perceive and manage safety and reliability….
Patents and others 6,968,338 Extensible database framework for management of unstructured and semi-structured documents, NASA Plus 9 patent pending Publications Refereed Journals 1. Maluf, David A., Tran, Peter B., and Gawdiak, Yuri, "New Information System Provides Multiple Data Source Access", NASA Ames Astrogram Article, October 2002. 2. McDermott, William, Maluf, David. A., Gawdiak, Yuri, Tran, Peter, "Airport Simulation Using Distributed Computational Resources,''.   CrossTalk: Journal of Defense Software Engineering Software Technology Support Center, Department of Defense, 2002. (download in pdf) 3. Maluf, David A., Tran, P., ''Articulation Management for Intelligent Integration of Information,'' Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 31, No 4, ISSN 1094-6977, 2001. (download in pdf, postscript) 4. Liu, Jiming, Maluf, David A., Desmarais, Michel C., ''A new Uncertainty Measure for Belief Networks with Applications to Optimal Evidential Inferencing, ''IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 3, No 3, ISSN 1041-4347, 2001. 5. Maluf, David A., Wiederhold Gio, Linden Ted and Panchapagesan, Priya, "Mediation to Implement Feedback in Training," CrossTalk: Journal of Defense Software Engineering Software Technology Support Center, Department of Defense, 1997. (download in pdf, postscript) 6. Maluf, David A., Liu, Jiming and Desmarais, Michel, "Data Mining in Medical Informatics," submitted to Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Kluwer Academics Publishers, 1999. 7. Maluf, David A., "Monotonicity of Entropy Computations in Belief Functions," International Journal of Intelligent Data Analysis, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1996. 8. Liu, Jiming, Maluf, David A. and Desmarais, Michel C., "An entropy-oriented uncertainty measure for belief networks," accepted in: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 1996. 9. Maluf, David A., Liu, Jiming and Desmarais, Michel, "Consistent Dynamical System Observers for Nondeterministic Event Modeling," Information Sciences, Intelligent Systems Journal, North-Holland, Vol. 94, No. 1-4, pp. 41-53, 1996. 10. Desmarais, Michel, Maluf, David A. and Liu, Jiming, "User-Expertise Modeling with Empirically Derived Probabilistic Implication Networks," User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction Journal, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 5, No. 3-4, pp. 283-315, 1996. 11. Maluf, David A., Ashish, Naveen, and Knight, Chris, "EII Achieving Scalability and Cost-Efficiency," Data Management Review Magazine, Issue 43, January 2008. (find it: DM Review) Book Chapters 1. Maluf, David A. and Tran, Peter B., "NETMARK: Adding Hierarchical Objects to Relational Databases with Schema-less Extensions", Advances in Computing: Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Ajith Abraham, Katrin Franke, Mario Koppen Eds., Springer, ISBN 3-540-40426-0 NY, 2003. 2. Maluf, David A. and Tran, Peter B., "NETMARK: A Schemal-Less Extension for Relational Databases for Managing Semi-Structured Data Dynamically," Foundation of Intelligent Systems, Ning Zhong, Zbigniew Ras, Shusaku Tsumoto, Einoshin Suzuki Eds, Springer , ISBN 3-540-20256-0, 2003. 3. Maluf, David A. and Wiederhold, Gio, " What the Logs Can Tell You: Mediation to Impletment Feedback in Training," Foundations of Intelligent Systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Zbigniew Ras Setsuo Ohsuga Eds, Springer, ISBN 3-54041094-5, 2000. (download in pdf, postscript) 4. Maluf, David A and Liu Jiming, "Qualitative Discovery in Medical Databases," Foundations of Intelligent Systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Zbigniew Ras Setsuo Ohsuga Eds, Verlag, ISBN 3-54041094-5, 2000. 5. Maluf David A. and Wiederhold Gio, "Abstraction of Representation for Interoperation," Foundations of Intelligent Systems, Zbigniew Ras and Andrzej Skowron Eds., Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, Vol. 1315, ISBN 3-540-63614-5, 1997. 6. (download in pdf, postscript) Refereed Conferences 1. Maluf. A. David, Tran, David, Tran, Peter, ''Effective Data Representation and Compression in Ground Data Systems,'' IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, 2008. 2. Maluf. A. David, Tran, David, Tran, Peter, ''Managing Unstructured Data With Structured Legacy Systems,'' IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, 2008. 3. Maluf. A. David, ''Searching Across the International Space Station,'' IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, 2007. 4. Putz, Peter, Maluf. A. David, ''Earned Value Management at NASA: An Integrated, Lightweight Solution,'' IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, 2007. 5. Maluf. A. David, Schipper, John F., ''Sensing Super-position: Human Sensing Beyond the Visual Spectrum,'' IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, Heuristics Systems Engineering, 2007. 6. Maluf, A. David, Schipper, John F., ''Sensing Super-Position: Visual Instrument Sensor Organ Replacement,'' IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, 2006. (download in pdf) 7. Maluf, A. David, et Al., ''Knowledge Mining Application in a IVHM Testbed,'' IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, 2006. (download in pdf) 8. Maluf, A. David, et Al., ''The NASA Program Management Tool: A New Vision in Business Intelligence, '' IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, 2006. (download in pdf) 9. Maluf, A. David, et Al., ''Context Based Configuration Management System,''  IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, 2006. (download in pdf) 10. Maluf, A. David, Bell, David, Ashish, Naveen, ''Semi-structured Data Management in the Enterprise: A Nimble. High-Throughput, and Scalable Approach,'' 9th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, 2005. (download in pdf) 11. Maluf, A. David, Bell, David, Ashish, Naveen, ''Lean Middleware, '' Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data. 2005, pp. 788–791, ISBN:1-59593-060-4,  2005. (download in pdf) 12. Maluf, A. David, Bell, David, ''NASA Program Management Tool,'' Project Management Challenge, University of Maryland, 2005. 13. Maluf, A. David, Bell, David, ''Towards G2G: Systems of Technology Database Systems, '' IEEE Aerospace Conference, Montana, 2005. (download in pdf) 14. Maluf, David A., Gawdiak, Yuri, Bell, David, ''On Space Exploration and Human Error: A Paper on Reliability and Safety,'' Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2005. (download in pdf) 15. Maluf, David A., Tran, Peter B., "NETMARK: A Schemal-Less Extension for Relational Databases for Managing Semi-Structured Data Dynamically," International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 2003. (download in pdf) 16. Maluf, David A., Tran, Peter B, "NETMARK: Adding Hierarchical Object to Relational Databases with Schema-less Extensions ", Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA), Tulsa, Oklahoma, Conference Proceedings, 2003. 17. Maluf, A. David, Bell, G. David, Knight, Chris, Tran, Peter, La, Tracy, Lin, Jenessa, McDermott, Bill, Pell, Barney,"NASA-XDB-IPG: Extensible Database - Information Grid" Global Grid Forum 8, 2003. (download in pdf) 18. Statler, Irving, Maluf, David A.,"NASA Aviation System Monitoring and Modeling Project,"SAE Aerospace and Aerospace Conference, 2003. (download in pdf) 19. Bell, David, Maluf David A., "An Extensible Information Grid for Risk Management," SAE Aerospace and Aerospace Conference, 2003. (download in pdf) 20. Maluf, David A., Gurram, Mohana M., Dorais, Gregory, and Tran, Peter B, "Active Sensor Vision Sensing for Spacecraft Mobile Robot Navigation", Systematics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI) on Computer Science & Engineering, Orlando, Florida, Conference Proceedings, 2003. (download in pdf) 21. Maluf, David A. and Tran, Peter B, "An Extensible 'Schema-less' Database Framework for Managing High-Throughput Semi-Structured Documents", IASTED Conference on Computer Science & Technology (CST), Cancun, Mexico, Conference Proceedings, 2003. 22. Maluf, David A., Tran, Peter, La, Tracy, ''An Extensible 'Schema-less' Database Framework for Managing High-Throughput Semi-Structured Documents'', International Association of Science and Technology for Development, Applied Informatics, 2003. 23. Smelyanskyi, Vadim N., Morris, Robin D., Kuehnel, Frank O., Maluf, David A., Cheeseman, Peter, ''Dramatic Improvements to Feature Based Stereo'', Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, LNCS 2351, 2002. 24. Maluf, David A., Cheeseman, Peter, Smelyanskyi, Vadim N., Kuehnel, Frank, Morris, R., ''The 3D Recognition, Generation, Fusion Update and Refinement (RG4) Concept'', 6th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, 2001. (download in pdf) 25. McDermott, William, Maluf, David A., Gawdiak, Yuri, Tran, Peter, ''Airport Simulations Using Distributed Computational Resources,'' SAE Aerospace and Aerospace Conference, 2001. (download in pdf) 26. Papasin, Richard, Tran, Peter, Maluf, David A., Leidich, Christopher, ''Remote Tower Sensor Systems,'' SAE Aerospace and Aerospace Conference, 2001. 27. Maluf, David A. and Wiederhold, Gio, " What the Logs Can Tell You: Mediation to Impletment Feedback in Training" International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 2000. (download in pdf, postscript) 28. Maluf, David A and Liu Jiming, "Qualitative Discovery in Medical Databases", International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 2000. 29. Smelyanskiy, V. N., Cheeseman, P., Maluf, D. A., Morris, R. D., "Bayesian Super-Resolved Surface Reconstruction", to apear in: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2000. 30. Morris, R. D., Cheeseman, P., Smelyanskiy, V. N., Maluf, D. A., "A Bayesian Approach to High Resolution 3D Surface Reconstruction from Multiple Images, Proceedings of IEEE Signal Processing workshop on Higher-Order Statistics, June, 1999, pp. 140-143. 31. Maluf, David A., " Implementing Articulation Rules for Object Request Brokers as an Extension to Production Systems ," IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop, Newport Beach, California, pp 36-44, 1997. (download in pdf, postscript) 32. Liu, Jiming. and Maluf, David A., "Toward evolutionary autonomous agents for computational perception", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics , Vol. 4, pp. 3096-3101, Orlando, Florida, October, 1997. Invited Paper. 33. Maluf David A. and Wiederhold Gio, "Abstraction of Representation for Interoperation," Tenth International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, pp 441-455, October, 1997. (download in pdf, postscript) 34. Maluf, David A., "AI in System Theory: An Observability View," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Simulation, pp 347-354, September 1997. (download in pdf, postscript) 35. Maluf, David A.and Liu, Jiming, "Implications and Relationships In Medical Databases," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Simulation, pp. 373-380, September 1997. 36. Maluf, David A., Daneshmend, Laeeque, " Application of Machine Learning for Machine Monitoring and Diagnosis," 10th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium, pp. 232-236, May 10-14, 1997. (download in pdf, postscript) 37. Liu, J., Daneshmend, Laeeque and Maluf, David A., "On-line Geological World Modeling Based on Qualitative Spatial and Physical Reasoning," Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Conference of Institute for Robotics and Intelligent System (IRIS) and PRECARN Consortium, June, 1996. 38. Maluf, David A., and Gerencser Laszlo., " Identification of Time-varying Stochastic System," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Simulation, pp. 376-383, September 1995. (download in pdf, postscript) 39. Maluf, David A., Daneshmend, Laeeque, "Neural Networks for Fault Detection, Prediction, and Diagnosis: A Case Study," Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, vol. 2, pp. 111-118, June 1995. 40. Maluf, David A. and Daneshmend, Laeeque, "Recovering from Spatial Distortion in Electromagnetic Imaging," Proceedings of the Sixth Canadian Symposium on Automation, pp. 21-27, October 1994. 41. Desmarais, Michel, Maluf, David A. and Liu, Jiming, "Adaptive Training Based Upon Computerized Knowledge Assessment," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on User Modeling, pp. 102-112, June 1994. (download in pdf, postscript) 42. Maluf, David A., Daneshmend, Laeeque, Hasani, F. and Momayez, M., "Image Synthesis and Perception of Probing Radar," Fifth International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, vol. 2, pp. 701-709, June 1994. 43. Maluf, David A., "Stochastic Complexity of Accident Occurrence," Proceedings of the VII Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference, pp. 293-299, 1991. Technical Reports 1. Maluf, David A., Li, Ying and Saldanha, Carlos, "Application Knowledge Organization," Tech. Report, Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal, CRIM-IIT-95, July 1995. 2. Maluf, David A. and Li, Ying, "Query Language and Interpreter," Tech. Report, Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal, CRIM-IIT-95, June 1995. 3. Maluf, David A., Desmarais, Michel and Liu, Jiming, "A User Knowledge Assessment Tool; the Perspective of a Design and an Implementation," Tech. Report, Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal, CRIM-EIF-94, 79 pages, June 1994. 4. Maluf, David A., Peck, Jonathan, Daneshmend, Laeeque, Demori, Renato and Burrows, John, "Applications of Neural Networks to Pump Monitoring; Validation and Potential Use," Tech. Report, Canadian Center for Automation and Robotics, CCARM-2-93, 80 pages, 1993. Others 1. Maluf, David A., Tatelman, Joyce, "Can Aging be Controlled?" Key-note presentation, Montreal, Canada, 1995.