KARL ARNOLD BELSER, Ph.D. 5544 Drysdale Drive, San Jose, CA 95124 408.723.0315 kbelser@ix.netcom.com OBJECTIVE
Technical analyst and technical writer (in areas below), freelance writer, and personal coach. EXPERIENCE
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| CPSD | Present - 2005 |
Chairman of CPSD
(Committee to Promote Square Dancing), a 501(c)(3) non-profit. The CPSD runs square dancing classes. |
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VMEDIA RESEARCH |
2005 |
Writing
Consultant. Wrote the company’s 32
mm, blue laser, optical disk specification. |
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| WROTE A BOOK |
2005- 2003 |
Writer. Wrote the book MEMOIRS OF A LATE 20TH CENTURY
ENGINEER. |
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| CAPELLA PHOTONICS |
2002- 2001 |
Consultant.
Wrote 80 technical working papers and patented
the the optical add-drop multiplexer (optical PBX) that used micro-mirror control systems |
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| SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY |
2000 |
Storage
Technologist. Wrote 300 system
working papers (including those at Quinta) on optical hard disk drive and optical switch technology. Received Seagate Outstanding Invention Award for servo patterned media. Quoted in 4/00 Scientific American on thermal assisted recording. Initiated a self-servo writing project. |
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| QUINTA (A start-up company) |
1999- 1997 |
Servo
architect. Seagate purchaced this
optical disk drive company. Designed, patented and wrote specification for the servo patterned media. |
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| IBM |
1996 |
Manager. Advanced magneitic disk drive servo techoloogy department. |
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| IBM | 1995 |
Manager. Advanced otpical disk drive servo technology department. |
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| IBM | 1994- 1993 |
Engineer. Wrote 35
architecture and 5 International Standards Organization (ISO) optical media working papers. System architect for IBM’s 2.6 GB removable media optical disk drive. |
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| IBM | 1992- 1991 |
Engineer. Patented a pulse width modulation optical recording process. |
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| IBM | 1980- 1987 |
Manager. Optical servo development department. | ||
| IBM | 1986- 1982 |
Manager. Advanced disk
drive position sensing department. |
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| IBM | 1981- 1976 |
Engineer. Worked on magnetic bubble memory used as a hard drive cache. Business sold to Intel. |
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| IBM | 1975 |
Engineer. Worked on the IBM 3279 color display terminal. |
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| IBM | 1974
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Manager. Digital
graphics generator department. Became an graphics authority after discovering a fatal error in a IEEE Transaction on Computers paper describing a quadratic curve generation algorithm. |
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| IBM | 1973- 1972 |
Engineer. Designed a digital graphics terminal. This system was a pioneer system similar to the one in every personal computer. |
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| IBM | 1971- 1970 |
Engineer. Worked on a chain printer terminal. |
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| IBM | 1969- 1968 |
Engineer. Architect of the First IBM Automatic Teller Machine (ATM). This system was built in limited production in England and became a standard IBM product. |
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| IBM | 1968- 1967 |
Engineer. Designed a character
generator for a TV display. This system was delivered to the RAND Corporation and used for more than 10 years. |
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| IBM | 1963- 1962 |
Cooperative Student. Worked summers and 2 days per week at IBM. Received first patent for a pointing system on a rear projection screen. |
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| IBM | 1959
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Cooperative Student. Built and documented the first disk drive voice coil motor. |
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EDUCATION |
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY |
1967- 1963 |
PhD
in Electrical Engineering. |
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| STANFORD UNIVERSITY |
1963- 1962 |
MS
in Electrical Engineering. |
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| STANFORD UNIVERSITY |
1962- 1959 |
BS
in Electrical Engineering at Stanford |
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| SAN JOSE STATE |
1959- 1957 |
Transferred to Stanford after coop assignment |
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PATENTS - 66 United States Patehts |
| 07164859 | 01/2007 | Free-space dnyamic wavelenght
routing system
with interleaved channels |
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| RE39411 | 11/2006 | Reconfigurable all-optical
multi-lexer with
simultaneous add-drop capability |
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| 06898031 | 05/2005 | Method for replicating magnetic
patterns on hard disk media |
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| 06868048 | 03/2005 | Data storage system having thermally activated readout | ||
| 06798594 | 09/2004 |
Position sensing system for a disc drive using micro-servo sectors and side-by-side R/W recording elements | ||
| 06788641 | 09/2004 | Method for providing track position and identification information for data storage devices | ||
| 06785075 |
08/2004 |
Self-writing servo and clock fields on a recording medium | ||
| 06781785 | 08/2004 |
Method and system for utilizing circular marks in position error signal patterns | ||
| 06775100 | 08/2004 | Laser assisted track width definition and radial control with magnetic recording | ||
| 06771443 | 08/2004 | Circumferential positioning of servo sectors for servo track writing | ||
| 06754032 |
06/2004 | Method and system for radial and circumferential alignment of data tracks on patterned media | ||
| 06751046 |
06/2004 | Writing servo data patterns on a data storage disk to account for repeatable and non-repeatable disturbances and thereby provide concentric data tracks | ||
| 06751035 | 06/2004 | Method and system for initializing patterned media | ||
| 06738207 |
05/2004 | Method for synchronizing the write current for magnetic recording with the bit islands on discrete bit patterned media | ||
| 06724558 | 04/2004 | Servo writing in a disc drive with substantially identical heads having read and write elements in a radial offset position | ||
| 06706358 | 03/2004 |
Storage disk comprising depressions and /or raised features | ||
| 06703099 | 03/2004 | Perpendicular magnetic recording media with patterned soft magnetic underlayer | ||
| 06643082 |
11/2003 | Servo sector format for a patterned media | ||
| 06631046 | 10/2003 |
Servo track writing using extended copying with head offset | ||
| 06614608 | 09/2003 | Buried servo patterned media | ||
| 06604223 | 08/2003 | System and method for correcting interference errors in data encoded on storage media | ||
| 06549699 |
04/2003 | Reconfigurable all-optical multiplexers with simultaneous add-drop capability | ||
| 06529460 | 03/2003 | Detection of pulse peak instance and amplitude in a storage drive | ||
| 06510015 | 01/2003 | Magnetic disc having physical servo patterns with a magnetic carrier, and method of making and using the same | ||
| 06496943 | 12/2002 |
Apparatus and method for efficient defect management in a magneto-optical data storage system | ||
| 06469465 | 10/2002 | Precision micro-motor position controller | ||
| 06456449 | 09/2002 | Disk drive with wide servo burst pattern and wide servo sensing element | ||
| 06421313 | 07/2002 | System and method for encoding read-only information on storage media | ||
| 06411459 | 06/2002 | Advanced servo writing method for hard disc drives | ||
| 06373792 | 04/2002 | Reduction of a temperature in a lubricant interface | ||
| 06349079 | 02/2002 | System and method for detecting a head positioning error within a computer memory device | ||
| 06345021 | 02/2002 | System and method of efficient servo sector encoding | ||
| 06331968 |
12/2001 | System and method to compensate for data defects within a magneto-optical computer memory device | ||
| 06330279 | 12/2001 | System and method of correcting gain and offset error in a signal amplifier for a position sensitive detector | ||
| 06278667 | 08/2001 | System and method for light power control in a magneto-optical drive | ||
| 06275455 | 08/2001 | System and method for generating position error signals within a computer memory device | ||
| 06264848 | 07/2001 | Method for providing track position and identification information for data storage devices | ||
| 06253010 | 06/2001 | System and method for efficient coupling between optical elements | ||
| 06204989 | 03/2001 |
Controlling a media master writing machine to produce curvilinear servo sector patterns | ||
| 06188472 | 02/2001 | System and method for direct measurement of alignment error in a fiber coupler | ||
| 06185174 |
02/2001 | Disk drive system having hybrid analog/digital pulse peak instance/amplitude data detection channels | ||
| 06081397 |
06/2000 |
Method and apparatus for SID-to-SID period estimation | ||
| 06052348 | 04/2000 |
System and method for write location defect compensation in computer storage media | ||
| 06049442 | 04/2000 |
Multiply-written servo burst patterns for minimizing position error in servo disk drives | ||
| 06021463 | 02/2000 | Method and means for efficiently managing update writes and fault tolerance in redundancy groups of addressable ECC-coded sectors in a DASD storage subsystem | ||
| 06018512 | 01/2000 | System and method of encoding for identifying a given surface among several identically patterned disk surfaces | ||
| 06008960 | 12/1999 | Split table generator and method for format data compression in disk drives | ||
| 06002541 | 12/1999 | Method and apparatus for providing a linear position error sensing (PES) signal | ||
| 05974019 | 10/1999 |
Optical system for two-dimensional positioning of light beams | ||
| 05966264 |
10/1999 | Two frequency servo PES pattern | ||
| 05892745 |
04/1999 |
System and method to compensate for data defects within a magneto-optical computer memory device | ||
| 05889641 | 03/1999 | Magneto-resistive magneto-optical head | ||
| 05793555 | 08/1998 | Seek optimization for disk files with side-by-side head | ||
| 05737344 | 04/1998 | Digital data storage with increased robustness against data loss | ||
| 05615205 |
03/1997 | Bi-level optical media having embossed header format | ||
| 05418773 | 05/1995 |
Zoned record carrier (2X ISO Optical Disk Format) | ||
| 05400313 |
03/1995 | Optical data storage system and method with reduced heat buildup | ||
| 05327408 | 07/1994 |
Optical disk with sector servo patterns compensating for variations in pattern size and/or radial velocity | ||
| 05103362 | 04/1992 | Method of electrostatically sensing track position information for magnetic recording medium | ||
| 04914725 |
04/1990 | Transducer positioning servo mechanisms employing digital and analog circuits | ||
| 04912585 | 03/1990 | Discrete track thin film magnetic recording disk with embedded servo information | ||
| 04168535 | 09/1979 | Non-volatile bubble domain memory system | ||
| 04074254 | 02/1978 | XY Addressable and updateable compressed video refresh buffer for digital TV display | ||
| 03973245 | 08/1976 | Method and apparatus for point plotting of graphical data from a coded source into a buffer and for rearranging that data for supply to a raster responsive device | ||
| 03734013 | 05/1973 | Multiple hammer magnetic pole piece block | ||
| 03328523 |
07/1967 | Scanning apparatus |
