- Alan N. Federman, PhD -

"Back off man, I really am a rocket scientist."

Recent

• Started as a Customization Engineer consulting for Cisco. StadiumVision @ Texas Stadium
• AJAX/LAMP/Google AppsDemoGet distance and maps of valid California zip codes.

  Down to Earth Rocket Science:

  • Science Media Presentations(Real Media, PowerPoints)
  • Quest.nasa.gov Webmaster, 1996-99, Sys admin 96-99, 2002-2005 This site now uses the NASA compliant frame.
    It uses a lot of Javascript, but no JSP or Tomcat.
  • Observatorium Migrated web site - maintained 1999-2005. No longer in the NASA domain.
  • Observatorium JAVA and JavaScript demos
  • Windows to the Universe One of many mirrors maintained as part of NASA's Learning Technologies Project (1998-2005).
  • Robotics.nasa.gov Webmaster 1999-2003, contributor. This site uses PHP
  • Celestia example of Web recursive application - an interesting OpenSource software.
  • Western Region Robotics Forum PHP + JavaScript, managed 11/2006 - 5/2008.
  • NASA WorldWind Makes Google Digital Earth look pallid. Written in C# - uses XML and WML(web mapping language) Open Source.
  • Calendar My First perl/unix application (1995).
  • Weather Activity Perl Scripts, 1996. Published article (pdf)

  Streaming Media

  • My Favorite Webcast! The Learning Technologies Project really pioneered web based distance learning.
  • Sample Technologies

  Robotics:

• FIRST robotics - won National Championship, 2000
• Botball - won National Championship 2001
• FIRST Home Page
• RoboNexus I'm speaking 10/09/05!
• The P-plan Multi Media site for my lecture on Team Success
• In 2004 and 2005 I mentored Team 254. They were Chairman Award Winners - Team 254 website.
• Servo Magazine, Jan, 2006 PMP Pneumatically Influenced Mobility Platfom - rover design article.
• Servo Magazine, Sep, 2007 Solar Charger - article.

  My Robots in Action - Real Media and YouTube Video Clips

• SENSORS
  RealPlayer required, will open in separate window.
  This is an actual run of the program, you can see the
  lego robot getting instructions (the usually invisible)
  infrared LEDs flash. The wire is for power - the batteries
  in a LEGO brick are not recharge-able and would die every
  3 hours if left on. After the robot returns to 'base'
  it sends the results of it mission to a spreadsheet for
  downloading and analysis. The web site ran from 2001 to 2005.
  It was shut down due to NASA security concerns.
  The site ran on a single Windows 2000 box using Inet and asp.
  

• Planetary Mobile Platform
  This is the pneumatic rocker bogey chasis I built as an
  experiment, and wrote up in 'Servo' Magazine.

• Personal Exploration Rover
  The PER(personal exploration rover) was designed by Illah
  Nourbakhsh of Carnegie-Mellon University to teach robotics
  to the general public. PER displays are at the Exploratorium,
  National Air and Space Museum and NASA.I had one (2003-2008) of
  of the 30 in service.

  GoPHR General Purpose Household Robot

  This is a prototype for an assisted living or telerobotic
  robotic servant. Project started in 2009.
  YouTube Video - in operation
  YouTube Video - hardware explanation
  

Image Gallery A walk down memory lane.

View Resume in MS-Word .doc format.

This page uses a simple css.

Thanks for Visiting.

 
CSIX migration(June '09)  I am volunteering to help
www.csix.org  redesign and upgrade a 2003 vintage php site. First,
we need to get the old site cloned and fix the broken links(Check).
Then we will replace the old php pages with current ones.
Finally, the new art work and menu/navigation widgets will be applied.

 My 'new' twitter blog.
 Does Perl Work?
 Does Python Work?
 PHP Info on this site.
 First Stab at a 'VisualCV'(Dull Knife)
LAMP Stack Demo Mini-app CA zip code distance calculator. 


Stupid Cell Phone Tricks HTML/WML/PHP/XML 


This is a project examining if it would be possible to have a 
'virtual' cell phone on the web. This would be a replacement phone in
case I lost or broke my cell phone while away from home.

Phish Proof Email Java Applet Test: