Biographical Sketch
Andrew Hammoude
Neda Communications, Inc mailto:office@andrew.hammoude.1.byname.net
3610 164th Place SE http://andrew.hammoude.1.byname.net
Bellevue, WA 98008-5807 Phone:
(425) 644-8026
i. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
| University of Cambridge, England | Engineering | B.A. | 1973 |
| (King’s College) | (Honors) | ||
| University of Cambridge, England | Engineering | M.A. | 1977 |
| (King’s College) | |||
| University of Toronto, Canada | Electrical Engineering | M.S. | 1978 |
| University of Washington, Seattle WA | Electrical Engineering | Ph.D. | 1988 |
ii. APPOINTMENTS
| 1999–present | Principal Engineer, Neda Communications, Inc., Bellevue, WA | |
| 2006–present | Director, Free Protocols Foundation, Bellevue, WA | |
| 2007 | Consultant, The Technical Commitee, Bellevue, WA | |
| Assisted the Department of Justice in monitoring Microsoft | ||
| technical compliance with the Final Judgement | ||
| 2000–2002 | Consultant, TeleCommunication Systems, Seattle, WA | |
| Strategic planning for Location Based Services | ||
| 1988–2000 | Owner, IMAGEsystems, Inc, Seattle, WA | |
| High-technology start-up company, developing advanced | ||
| image processing hardware and software systems | ||
iii. (a). FIVE PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO PROPOSED TOPIC
- Hammoude A. and Banan M. Free Protocols Foundation Policies and Procedures. Free
Protocols Foundation, Bellevue, WA, January, 2000. Available at
http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100201. - Banan M. and Hammoude A. Libre Services: A non-proprietary model for delivery of Internet services. Free Protocols Foundation, Bellevue, WA, March, 2006. Available at http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100101.
- Hammoude A. and Banan M. Operation WhiteBerry. Free Protocols Foundation, Bellevue, WA, January, 2000. Available at http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100006.
- Banan M. and Hammoude A. The WAP Trap: An Exposé of the Wireless Application
Protocol Free Protocols Foundation, Bellevue, WA, January, 2000. Available at;
http://www.freeprotocols.org/PLPC/100014. - Hammoude A. The By* Concept: A Unified Model for Internet Services. Neda Communications, Inc., Bellevue, WA, January, 2007. Available at http://www.neda.com/PLPC/110001.
iii. (b). FIVE ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS
- Hammoude A. An Empirical Parameter Selection Method for Endocardial Border Identification Algorithms. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 25:33-45, 2001.
- Hammoude A. Edge Detection in Ultrasound Images Based on Differential Tissue Attenuation Rates. Ultrasonic Imaging 21:31-42, 1999.
- Hammoude A. Endocardial Border Identification in Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Images: Review of Methods. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 22:181-193, 1998.
- Hammoude A. An Empirical Parameter Selection Method for Border Identification Algorithms. Computers in Cardiology, 1998.
- Hammoude A and Smith HW. Experiments with Self-Tuning Control of Flotation. Proceedings, IFAC Symposium on Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing, 1980.
