PAUL NIQUETTE
PORTFOLIO
Air Traffic Control
Original Research: man-machine simulators, track-while-scan radar, speed-regulated separation management,Terminal Area Sequence Control (TASC).
1958
Automobile Safety
Experimental Design: earliest crash testing, chest-level restraint, padded dashboard, vehicular speed classification systems, traffic signal phasing algorithms.
1954
Cable Barrier
Invention: non-destructive vehicular arresting gear adopted for expressways.
1955
Cache Memory
Patented Invention: Least-Recent Usage (LRU) replacement algorithm, hierarchical Cachecade (TM), associative buffer, memory management stratagems.
1966
Computer Printing
Sponsored Research: first application of laser-scanned imaging for a xerographic engine; Patented: boustrophedon character sequencer.
1977
Design Automation 
Managed development of an early precursor to CADD software, for development of computer mainframes and complex electronic controllers.
1964
Electronic Mail Business Development: strategic plan, DayMail Service (DMS), a joint venture with USPS 1978
Facsimile
Product Development: image-plane compression, commercial standards, Telecopier (TM)
1974
Financial Analysis 
Management Tools: business planning models, critical path methodology, bill-of-materials explosion procedures.
1964
Guidance Systems
System Development: airborne radar and computers, 'nose-tail' anti-chaffe, counter-counter measures, automatic snap-up maneuver, missile self-test
1956
In-Circuit Emulators
Product Planning: microprocessor development tools, unexecuted prefetch filter, orthogonal breakpointing.
1987
Instrumentation
Laboratory and Field Experimental Design: accelerometery, high-speed motion picture analysis, digital formant tracking.
1954
Local Area Networks
Sponsored Research: Ethernet, token-ring, multiplexers.
1973
Logic Design Procedures
Development Projects: sequential devices, state machines, glitch-free asynchronous design techniques, sample-data systems, heuristic applications. 
1968
Mass Storage Devices
Product Innovations: disk controllers, single-capstan, variable-speed magnetic tape drive, phase encoding.
1967
Microprocessor Development
Product Planning: source-level debugging tools, forward path configuration management, ROMability testing, code coverage.
1988
Performance Analysis
Product Planning: global resource allocation, interactive frequency measurement, time-based histograms.
1987
Plant Scheduling 
Management Innovations: earliest JIT plant scheduling, inventory control, exploitation of maldistribution.
1966
Process Control
System Development: earliest closed-loop computer applications in petrochemical, factory automation, nuclear reactors.
1957
Radar Speed Meter
Invention, Sponsored Development: demonstration, testing, and application in law enforcement operations of 11 western states.
1955
Reprographics 
Guided Development: xeroradiography, electronic front-end copier, multiple-laser, color graphics.
1978
Realtime Software 
Development Projects: event-driven task scheduling, swapping and overlay algorithms, priority interrupts.
1965
Runway Approach System
Invention: High-Intensity (stroboscopic) Runway Lights (HIRL)
1953
Seatbelt Interlock
Mandated invention for automobiles, with passenger-side detection.
1954
Telecommunications
Product Development: earliest packet switch multiplexers.
1961
Telemetry
Product Development: error correcting codes, pulse-code modulation.
1966
Transponder
Invention: aircraft identification and blind altitude reporting, ground-based collision avoidance and terrain clearance.
1958
Vehicle Metering 
Original Research: mandated remedy for density lock.
1954
Watchdog Timer
Invention: externally administered, single-thread fail-safety device, first applied in process control systems.
1958

 
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