The Home Page of Alan B. Scrivener

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since 6 May 1999.

Home of: A Curriculum for Cybernetics and Systems Theory and my eZine, Cybernetics in the 3rd Millenium.

I finished my book, A Survival Guide for the Traveling Techie, and you can buy the BETA at my new web site travelingtechie.com!

Recently presented a paper called Experiments in Visualizing Social Networks at the NAACSOS Conference.

Recently worked on the East Mojave Desert Project 2004 as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge for Robotic Ground Vehicles: a race of driverless vehicles from Los Angeles to Las Vegas March 13, 2004 (subcontracting for Mindtel, LLC). See: www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge.

• Current resume: Microsoft Word .docx format.
• Computer graphics I have done. (I need to add my work in the last three years for Mindtel to this...)
  
• A paper I wrote on "The Impact of Visual Programming on Medical Research"
• Another paper called "The Somascope -- A Tool for Guided Self-Healing Using Medical Imaging"
• A guide to fonts visible in Windows from HTML.

• My wife Dixie now has a temporary home page here.
• This is our daughter, Charlotte, at age 6 months.
  
• My current hot links list.
• Some digital photos I've taken on my travles at flickr.com (thanks Smokey).
• A genealogy experiment.
• My "what's tired, what's wired" list.
• CDs I've Made Recently (or plan to soon)
• Cox Santee Channels
• San Diego Radio -- Alan's Presets
• Scenes we'd like to see

• "A Curriculum for Cybernetics and Systems Theory"
• Related to the above, this table of difficulties of solving equations was a real eye-opener to me when I first saw it in the mid 1970s.
• Thought for the Day.
• A questionnaire visualization experiment.
• A hypertext experiment that starts with an architectural description of the Plaza Inn at Disneyland.
• A mnemonic for remembering downtown Los Angeles names.
• A mnemonic for remembering downtown San Francisco street names.
• My Own Mental Y2K Problem =or= Things To Look Forward To.
• Cartoon found on a cubicle wall at NASA's Kennedy Space Center a few months after the space shuttle Challenger explosion..
• Have you seen the fnords?