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Work
Since 1985 I've been working at Stanford Research Systems, where I'm currently Engineering Manager. SRS is an interesting company with a wide variety of
products including Test and Measurement instrumentation, vacuum science products, atomic frequency standards, and software.
Projects
- TheSR785 Dynamic Signal Analyzer is a brand new state of the art FFT analyzer.It includes many features missing from the earlier SR780 such as frequency domain system identification, order tracking, and a time/histogram mode.
- SR272 Data Acquisition Program is a brand new 32 bit Windows program for acquiring data from SRS's SR250 boxcar integrator system.
- The SR780 was SRS's first 2-channel FFT analyzer and the first to include Analog Devices powerful AD21020 DSP chip.
- The SR760 and SR770 were our first single channel FFT analyzers.
- The SR850 is a powerful digital lock-in amplifier built on SRS's "platform" architecture.
- The SR430 is a multichannel scaler, a somewhat obscure instrument. It was the first instrument to use our16-bit 80C186 based "platform" operating system which I originally wrote and which as since been modified to form the basis for many SRS instruments.
- The SR640 Dual Channel Filters represent my only attempt at analog design.
- Way back in the '80s I wrote a series of first-generation DOS data acquisition programs including the SR265, SR565, SR575, SR465, and SR626 which despite looking a bit tired are still in use by scientists all
over the world.
- The SR245 was SRS's first computer linked data acquisition product and is also still in use all over the world.
- I also write and publish SRS's catalog every 2 years.
- I also manage SRS's computer networks, which are based on Novell's Intranetware operating system.
- I also designed and maintain SRS's database system, based on the powerful but somewhat obscureDataflex database system.
Interests
- We really like Borland'sC++ Builder as a windows development environment.
- Without C++, life as we know it would certainly cease to exist. I'm a big proponent of using C++ in embedded systems. Don't beleive anyone who tells you it's too big and slow.
- Embedded Systems are hot right now. We were doing them before anyone even had a name for them.
- Digital Signal Processing and Fourier techniques are at the heart of all our spectrum analyzer products.
Education
- BSc.E. in Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 1979
- Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Stanford University, 1985
Dissertation: XUV Spectroscopy of Atoms and Laser Applications
Advisor: Stephen E. Harris
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Personal Links
- Most of time these days is devoted to my son Ben , who will be 4 at the end of August.
- And now I've also got a daughter Natasha, who was born on 4/20/99.
- My wife, Virginia Shea, is the author of the definitive book on Network Etiquette, Netiquette .When she gets around to writing her web page the link will go here
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- I spend as much time as possible playing tennis at about a 4.0 NTRP rating.
- Back before Ben, movies were an obsession, and no discussion of movies is possible without the Internet Movie Database .
- Ginny and I both belong to a long standing bookclub which owns the domain name bookclub.org .
- I've got a large collection of interesting rhododendrons which now largely take care of themselves.
- Ginny and I are devoted to our Eichler Home .We gladly trade information and suggestions with anyone interested in these unique California homes.
- Despite 20 years on the west coast I'm still devoted to the Mets and the N.Y. Giants .
- Ginny and I spend a lot of time hiking through the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District .
- In the old days, when I still thought politics were interesting, I was active in the Libertarian Party
- I've played for over 15 years in the Renaissance Recorder Consort 'Windstorm.' And on the subject of early music, I've built a couple of harpsichords and am
currently working on a clavichord.
Contact Information
Personal email address
ajm91@comcast.net
SRS email address
ajm@thinksrs.com
Office phone
408-744-9047 x232
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