Bruce A. Martin

• Current Responsibilites (at BNL):
  • Control System Design for Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
  • Installation & test procedures for 200 Front End Computers (FECs) comprising RHIC control system
  • Embedded firmware for WaveForm Generators to control 1000 power supplies for superconducting magnets
  • Corrector magnet controls for Alternating Gradient Synchrotron
  • Software Quality Assurance

• Technologies used for control system implementation:
  • Unix operating systems (Solaris and others)
  • Posix P1003.4-compliant real-time executive (VxWorks)
  • Sun and SGI console-level systems; MV68040 front ends; embedded processors (i960, etc.)
  • C++ and C programming languages; also Fortran 90, assembler
  • WorldWideWeb, HTML, CGI scripts (Perl)
  • Sybase, Lex & Yacc, Atria ClearCase

• Biographical Information
  • Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now Poly.U.):
    • B.S.Math. 1964;
    • Research Associate 1964-66,
    • posgrad studies in X-ray Crystallography 1964-70;
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory:
    Applied Mathematics Dept. 1966-80;
    • Real-Time process control for Neutron Diffration
    • Simulation codes for Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactors
    • Oceanographic database for NYOSL
    • ADCCP network for downloading weather bulletins
    • Atmospheric Chemistry in turbulence
    returned to BNL staff 12/91 to design RHIC control system (see above).
  • Consultant/Microsoft 1980-81.
  • Vice Pres. for Software Development/American Science 1981-83.
  • Product Mgr./Megadata 1983-85.
  • Software Systems Mgr./Robotic Vision Systems Inc. 1985-86.
  • Principal Engineer/Grumman Aerospace 1986-91
    • Integrated Logistic Support - Staff advisor to Dir. of Computer Engineering
    • Ada Technology Insertion (replace ATLAS on Automated Test Eqp.)
    • Corporate Technology software audits of JSTARS project
    • Developed Software Engineering Standard for Space Division
    • Control System for Superconducting X-ray Lithography Synchrotron.
  • Standards work (since 1975): ISO JTC1/SC22/WG5 & ANSI XJ3 (Fortran 77, 90, 95); ANSI X3J11 (C); POSIX. Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Poly and at Suffolk County Community College.

• Hobbies
  Whitewater canoeing, spelunking, hiking, camping (BSA); Prestidigitation (SAM); numismatics; technical writing (Emerging Technologies Group); politics (Libertarian Party); child-rearing (2).