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Jack Harper, President/Secure Outcomes Inc.


e-mail: jharper@frobenius.com or jharper@secureoutcomes.net
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Harper is a software developer/engineer with a deep engineering/technical background in cryptography, real-time embedded systems, artificial intelligence, and parallel processing systems. Programming languages used over the past 39-years include 
Common Lisp/CLOS/MOP (and other Lisp varients),   
C/C++, 
ALGOL, 
FORTRAN, 
PL/1, 
SNOBOL, 
assembly languages for numerous machine architectures, and others.



Platforms includes 
Windows XP/NT/98/95 (soft real-time embedded), 
Apple Macintosh, 
Rabbit and
68000 (hard real-time embedded) systems, and, many years ago,
Prime minicomputers, 
HP 2100 minicomputers, 
Symbolics LISP Machines, 
 Univac 1108/1110 mainframes, 
IBM 360, 
SDS Sigma-7, and others.



Harper holds three issued patents: 7,107,457 Optical Card Based System for Individualized Tracking and Record Keeping (US); 7,128,258 Optical Immunization Card (US); and 2005/01261 Optical Banking Card ( in South Africa) and has twelve patent applications currently pending in the areas of advanced fingerprint collection and processing techniques, cryptography, financial systems, and security.



His professional interests are centered around early stage tech companies and he has thirty years experience in designing, building, and fielding secure and security-related systems and taking the products to market. Harper's past work has involved real-time embedded hardware/software crypto systems; advanced biometrics; internal crypto details of the U.S. Green Card; the design of variable-topology supercomputer systems for artificial intelligence, molecular modeling, image processing, and other applications; vaguely autonomous laser-imaging guided mobile security robots; medical instrumentation (dialysis and laparoscopic ultrasound gear); and, many years ago during the Cold War, nuclear weapons command and control software for NATO forces in Central Europe. 



Harper has worked, consulted, and sold systems in 22 countries and has an MBA degree from the University of Denver (1992) and a B.S. Electrical Engineering and a   B.A. Mathematics degree with a Minor in Russian Language and Studies from the University of Houston (1975). 



In the past, he has founded, arranged financing, grown, and then taken two companies public with peak combined market capitalization of on the order of $50-million. Harper founded Secure Outcomes Inc. in 2008 which manufactures and sells advanced forensic-quality electronic livescan fingerprint collection, archiving, and transmission systems.



His personal interests include the History of Computing -- especially Ancient Lisp Systems (Harper has assembled a collection of still working 25 year old Lisp Machines (an enormous Symbolics 3650 and several 3620's) and components (e.g., about a hundred Symbolics triple-high VME boards) from the primordial age of symbolic processing); the Internals of LISP Programming Systems; Amateur Radio (WØYJ -- CW on 20/40 meter HF) especially with vacuum tube receivers/transmitters from the 1950s/1960s; Voracious reading (history, politics, tech, early 20th century literature); Investments; Flying -- stick time in Cessna 150/172/177, Bellanca 14-13-2, Stearman PT-17, J-3 Cub, Sweitzer sailplane and others; Amateur Astronomy with a Celestron NexStar 11 GPS and a Cave Astrola 10 inch Reflector (under restoration); Scuba Diving (PADI Open Water Certified); Chess (not very well); Cycling; and Skiing. Harper parachuted some years ago and hopes to take that up again as time and courage permits.



Harper is currently writing a book on the early history (1955 - 1962) of the development of the LISP 1.5 programming language along with its first applications to build the classic early AI programs on the IBM 709/7090/7094 mainframes of that time.





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