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<H2>Bill Howell - Personal Background</h2>

<HR>
<UL>
	<LI>Born 25 February 1956, Calgary,
	Alberta, Canada 
	
	<LI>Status Divorced, two daughters:
	Catherine (11Nov85) and Sarah (10Aug88) 
	
	<LI><P>Viewpoints conservative fiscally, liberal socially, diverse
	politically 
	
</UL>

<HR>
<H3>Current Interests</h3> 

<UL>
	<LI>Two daughters &ndash; now out of
	the nest, but we stay in touch ... (also, big university costs
	&lt;grin&gt;)
	<LI>Genetics, neurology, the brain,
	and artificial neural networks &ndash; casual interests springing
	from ANNs below, and including:
	<LI>&quot;Mindcode&quot; &ndash;
	non-protein coding DNA and the architecture, ontogeny, function, and
	process in the brain (including more-or-less direct coding of mental
	capabilities in DNA and epigenetically)
	<LI>various forms of brain/hardware
	systems &ndash; eg Multi-Electrode Arrays (MEAs), electrode array
	insertions into brain and systems for brain/electronic functionality
	(for disease, brain damage, etc), silicon system inserts (eg
	Cochlear implants 
	
	<LI>Neural networks &ndash; takes up a
	huge portion of my &quot;leisure&quot; time which is contributed as
	a volunteer
	<UL>
		<LI>active member of INNS and
		IEEE-CIS (see below), author of recent paper and co-editor of a
		Special Issue of Neural Networks
		<LI>regular attendee of International
		Joint Conference on Neural Networks or World Congress on Neural
		Networks (1992 to present) &ndash; this is from my own after-tax
		wallet, and using my vacation time!!!
	</UL>
	<LI>Running &ndash; casual runs to
	stay in shape only now (past marathoner and ultra-marathoner)
	<LI>Solar modelling and forecasting &ndash;
	especially related to climate change, pandemics and cancer, major
	seismic activity, etc. Timesapns from daily through geologic. Mostly
	acting as an admin/organizational helper for expert scientists, but
	I follow some of the literature very closely. (I also worked on
	Climate Change programs in the federal government) 
	
	<LI>Toastmasters &ndash; 2005-present
</UL>
<BR>

<H3>Memberships:</h3>
<UL>
	<LI>Canadian Institute of Mining,
	Metallurgy, and Petroleum (CIM) #102357 - on&amp;off since 1974
	<LI>International Neural Network
	Society (INNS) #174 since ~1989 to present , was Program Co-Chair of
	IJCNN05 in Montreal
	<LI>Institute of Electrical and
	Electronics Engineers, Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE-CIS)
	#41565049 since ~2003 to present
	<LI>Ordre des Ing&eacute;nieurs du
	Qu&eacute;bec (OIQ) #033549 since ~1981 to present
	<LI><A HREF="http://www.olsc.ca/">Ottawa
	Life Sciences Council</A> and the BioNorth conference in Ottawa -
	~2000 to present
	<LI>Political parties &ndash; member
	of 3 political parties in Canada (a bit across the spectrum)
</UL>
<BR>

<HR>
<H3>Past Interests</h3> 

<UL>
	<LI>Aircraft Pilot - piloted Cessna
	152's in Victoria, B.C. and Alma, Quebec (1978-1981) 
	
	<UL>
		<LI>enjoyed stalls &amp; spins,
		landing, but I was not an A to B flyer 
		
	</UL>
	<LI>Canadian naval reserve ship's
	diver (~1977-1981) Victoria &amp; Halifax 
	
	<UL>
		<LI>underwater maintenance on ships/
		harbour installations 
		
		<LI>a body search outside of Calgary 
		
	</UL>
	<LI>Computer Hacker - serious
	addiction (heavy C, addicted to Q'Nial, spectator Java, neural nets,
	etc) 
	
	<LI>Investments - corporate &amp;
	market analysis (no time for that now) 
	
	<LI>Landlord - Montreal condo in the
	McGill University ghetto 
	
</UL>
<UL>
	<LI><A HREF="http://www.hite.org/">Ottawa
	Hi-Tech Entrepreneurs</A> (~1999-2003) &ndash; awesome forum to meet
	great entrepreneurs from Ottawa area and hear their stories/ lessons
	<LI>Ottawa Java Users' Group
	(~1993-1995) - hard-core programming club, although I never got
	around to doing Java seriously
	<LI>Running 
	
	<UL>
		<LI>Ottawa H3 running club
		(1993-Aug06) 
		
		<LI>Marathons - approximately 14 to
		16 official, 5 or 6 unofficial (including Calgary 1997; Montreal
		1995; New York City 1998, Ottawa- 1995/96/97/98/200#? ; Qu&eacute;bec
		City 1998/200#?; Toronto 1997/98;&nbsp; several more between 1999
		&amp;200 &amp; unofficial) 
		
		<LI>Ultramarathons - Sri Chimnoy 24
		run Ottawa, 4 times: 1998 (I ran/walked 107,~103, 101, and fially
		~97 km, although we were each supposed to run &gt;100 miles in 24
		hours, this was NOT a relay!!) unofficial: 47 km during Cabot Trail
		relay race in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia &ndash; I did the
		Smokey Mountain portan then I ran the next leg and much of the
		next-next-leg as well. The next morning I did the last of 17 legs
		with the amulance chasing me in because I was so slow.
		<LI>Labatt 24 hour relays in Ottawa,
		Cabot Trail Relay in Cabe Breton Nova Scotia, Uttica Boilermaker in
		New York State 
		
		<LI>triathlons - Meech Lake 1995
		(0.75/20/7) and one other time, National Capital (1.5/40/10) Deep
		River 1998 (1/26/8) etc 
		
	</UL>
</UL>
<UL>
	<LI>Small Business proprietor - resale
	of large vocabulary voice dictation systems to doctors &amp; lawyers
	in Ottawa (1993-1996) 
	
	<LI>Sports 
	
	<UL>
		<LI>Hockey - to midget level while in
		grade school, occasional industrial/ fun leagues prior to 1992
		<LI>tackle football (high school
		quarterback - team won city finals grade 10, university intramural
		&ndash; almost broke my neck) 
		
		<LI>soccer Chicoutimi league 1980 
		
		<LI>lacrosse Calgary city champs
		1969, Alberta midget champs 1971 
		
	</UL>
	<LI>Student Leadership 
	
	<UL>
		<LI>Engineering Students' Society
		Student of the Year 1975-76 
		
		<LI>President, Engineering Students
		Society, U of Calgary 1977-78 
		
		<LI><P>President, Chemical Engineering Graduate SS, U of Ottawa
		~1983ish? 
		
	</UL>
</UL>
<BR>


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