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style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Last Updated May 2, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_18" o:spid="_x0000_i1041" type="#_x0000_t75" 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windowtext .5pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_19" o:spid="_x0000_i1040" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="MAR from family portrait" style='width:69pt;height:102.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image002.png" o:title="MAR from family portrait"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=92 height=137 src="index_files/image009.gif" alt="MAR from family portrait" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_19"><![endif]></span><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> <td width=385 valign=top style='width:288.4pt;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Dr. Mark A. Richards</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Principal Research Engineer and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Adjunct Professor</st1:PlaceName><br> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering<br> Georgia Institute of Technology</span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> </td> <td width=287 rowspan=2 valign=top style='width:215.6pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>School of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering<br> Georgia Institute of Technology <br> <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">266 Ferst Drive</st1:Street><br> <st1:City w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">GA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">30332-0765</st1:PostalCode></st1:address><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Phone:<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>   </span>404-894-2714<br> Fax:<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>        </span>404-894-0560<br> E-mail:<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>   </span><a href="mailto:mark.richards@ece.gatech.edu">mark.richards@ece.gatech.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Office:<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>    </span>Klaus Advanced Computing Building<br> <span style='mso-tab-count:1'>                </span>(KACB), Room 3354<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><a href="LocalTravel.htm">Local Travel Information</a> (driving and subway directions, maps, parking, hotels)</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Batang;color:windowtext;mso-no-proof:yes'><img border=0 width=215 height=161 id="_x0000_i1039" src=KlausView.jpg></span><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:Batang;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>View from my office in the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Klaus</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Advanced</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Computing</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType>, looking East toward Midtown <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:City></st1:place> and across the GT Baseball Stadium. Updated every 15 minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:235.75pt'> <td width=491 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:368.55pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top:none;mso-border-left-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt;mso-border-right-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:235.75pt'> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_20" o:spid="_x0000_i1038" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="BD15072_" style='width:352.5pt; height:6.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image004.gif" o:title="BD15072_" cropright="14199f"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=470 height=9 src="index_files/image010.gif" alt="BD15072_" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_20"><![endif]></span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Biographical Sketch:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>For an excessively detailed curriculum vitae, click <a href="MARichards%20CV.pdf">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>If you actually look at that CV, you will find that I spent most of my career since finishing the Ph.D., namely the 20 years from 1982-2001, at the <a href="http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/">Georgia Tech Research Institute</a> (GTRI), the applied R&amp;D arm of Georgia Tech (with a few years at Lockheed-Martin and DARPA mixed in there). After teaching part-time and serving as an adjunct professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) on a regular basis for several years, I moved to ECE full time in 2002. You will also see that I got both my bachelor s degree and Ph.D. from Georgia Tech ECE (the M.S. is from Stanford), so basically I am a Georgia Tech lifer.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Some have suggested that I bear some <a href="SeparatedAtBirth.htm">resemblance</a> to other, better-known persons.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_21" o:spid="_x0000_i1037" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="BD15072_" style='width:573pt; height:10.5pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image004.gif" o:title="BD15072_"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=764 height=14 src="index_files/image011.gif" alt="BD15072_" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_21"><![endif]></span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>You Should Study DSP So <a href="http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=976" target="_blank">This Doesn t Happen To You</a>!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The author of PhD Comics, Jorge Cham, got his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech in 1997.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>This strip suggests he is a veteran (or survivor) of ECE2025.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>More from PhD Comics:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.phdcomics.com/previewfeed_horiz.php"> </script><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Two more good geek comics (I like comics): <a href="http://xkcd.com/" target="_blank">xkcd</a> and <a href="http://abstrusegoose.com/" target="_blank">Abstruse Goose</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_23" o:spid="_x0000_i1036" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="BD15072_" style='width:573pt; height:10.5pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image004.gif" o:title="BD15072_"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=764 height=14 src="index_files/image011.gif" alt="BD15072_" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_23"><![endif]></span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>What I Do:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <h5 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Currently, I am involved in five major activities:<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ï%<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Writing educational and tutorial materials in the field of radar signal processing.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ï%<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Directing and teaching in continuing education courses.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ï%<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Teaching undergraduate and graduate ECE courses.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ï%<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Conducting research related to high performance embedded computing (HPEC) and radar signal processing:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo4; tab-stops:list 1.0in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Most recently, I have supported DARPA s exascale computing study (ECS) and the subsequent exascale computing software and resiliency studies (ECSS and ECRS).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>More information on the ECS and ECSS reports is available <a href="#ExascaleReport">further down the page</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo4; tab-stops:list 1.0in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Another current area of HPEC research is the use of Graphical Processing units (GPUs) for more general embedded computing (so-called General Purpose GPU, or GPGPU, computing), especially in sensor signal processing.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>A <a href="#GPU_QR_paper">sample paper</a> in this area is cited below.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo4; tab-stops:list 1.0in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Some ongoing projects that I helped start, but in which I am now less active (though GT is still involved), include <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo4; tab-stops:list 1.75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>" <span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>the <a href="http://www.hpec-si.org/">High Performance Embedded Computing Software Initiative</a> (HPEC-SI)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo4; tab-stops:list 1.75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>" <span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>the<a href="http://www.vsipl.org/"> Vector, Signal, and Image Processing (VSIPL)</a> Forum<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:2.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level4 lfo4; tab-stops:list 2.25in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Recently, my colleagues Dan Campbell and Andrew Kerr released the first version of <a href="http://gpu-vsipl.gtri.gatech.edu/" target="_blank">GPU VSIPL</a>, an implementation of the <a href="http://www.vsipl.org/">VSIPL </a>Core Lite profile that targets GPUs using Nvidia s CUDA platform.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>A <a href="#GPU_VSIPL_paper">paper on GPU-VSIPL</a> is included below.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ï%<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Research Development and Analysis (<i>i.e.</i>, marketing)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo4; tab-stops:list 1.0in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>For the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">ECE</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, especially with DoD sponsors, and<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo4; tab-stops:list 1.0in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Courier New"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>A focused effort promoting research at DARPA for all of Georgia Tech<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:1.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level3 lfo4; tab-stops:list 1.75in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>" <span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Georgia Tech personnel can examine the <a href="http://seal.gatech.edu/darpa">GIT-DARPA web site</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I also do some consulting and  expert witness work.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>(Slightly) more on this <a href="#Consulting">below</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <h5 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></h5> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_22" o:spid="_x0000_i1035" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="BD15072_" style='width:449.25pt; height:8.25pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image004.gif" o:title="BD15072_"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=599 height=11 src="index_files/image004.gif" alt="BD15072_" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_22"><![endif]></span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Recent Courses Taught:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Fall 2010:<span style='mso-tab-count: 1'>          </span><a href="https://oscar.gatech.edu/cat/ecatalog.htm#ECE">ECE 6272, Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:27.0pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>ECE 6272 is a course that I developed and teach. Both on-campus and distance learning sections are available; see the Georgia Tech <a href="http://www.dlpe.gatech.edu/">Distance Learning and Professional Education</a> web site for information on distance learning options.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><a href="#textbook">My book</a> of the same title evolved from the class notes for this course and is now the course text.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Spring 2009:<span style='mso-tab-count: 1'>     </span><a href="https://oscar.gatech.edu/cat/ecatalog.htm#ECE">ECE 2025, Introduction to Signal Processing</a> (recitation &amp; lab sections)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Spring 2008:<span style='mso-tab-count: 1'>     </span><a href="https://oscar.gatech.edu/cat/ecatalog.htm#ECE">ECE 4271, Applications of Digital Signal Processing</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Other Courses Taught (just not recently):<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><a href="https://oscar.gatech.edu/cat/ecatalog.htm#ECE">ECE 4270, Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_25" o:spid="_x0000_i1034" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="BD15072_" style='width:451.5pt; height:8.25pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image004.gif" o:title="BD15072_"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=602 height=11 src="index_files/image004.gif" alt="BD15072_" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_25"><![endif]></span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Continuing Education:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <h5 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have been heavily involved in developing and teaching continuing education courses (short courses), mostly on defense-related topics, for some years. The three courses I have developed or co-developed are:<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.pe.gatech.edu/conted/servlet/edu.gatech.conted.course.ViewCourseDetails?COURSE_ID=708">Signal Processing Refresher</a>. <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>This is a general, sophomore-level review of basic signals and system concepts such as linear filters and Fourier analysis. It is a good way to  scrape the rust off before tackling some of the other short courses listed next, if you haven t worked in signal processing in a while.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.pe.gatech.edu/conted/servlet/edu.gatech.conted.course.ViewCourseDetails?COURSE_ID=279">Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing</a><br> <i>This is a good follow-on to Principles of Modern Radar (see below), and an excellent stepping stone for advanced radar signal processing short courses such as Fundamentals of Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Processing and Space-Time Adaptive Processing: Applications to Radar.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.pe.gatech.edu/conted/servlet/edu.gatech.conted.course.ViewCourseDetails?COURSE_ID=81">Fundamentals of Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Processing</a><br> <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>This course offers fairly detailed coverage of the major 2D and 3D SAR image formation algorithms and SAR applications.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Most of these are taught once or twice a year in Atlanta and sometimes in other locations, typically Denver and Las Vegas.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Check out the <a href="http://www.pe.gatech.edu/">Georgia Tech Professional Education</a> site, or the course-specific links above, for information on costs, locations, and dates.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>All of these courses are available on a contract basis as well. <a href="mailto:mark.richards@ece.gatech.edu">Contact me</a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>In addition, I teach in a number of other current Georgia Tech short courses, taught in Atlanta and various other cities, and available on a contract (and customized) basis as well:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ï%<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.pe.gatech.edu/conted/servlet/edu.gatech.conted.course.ViewCourseDetails?COURSE_ID=83">Principles of Modern Radar</a><br> <i>This is Georgia Tech s  Radar 101 short course, attended by thousands of students from government and industry over the last 20 years.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ï%<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.pe.gatech.edu/conted/servlet/edu.gatech.conted.course.ViewCourseDetails?COURSE_ID=838">Radar Waveforms: Properties, Analysis, Design, and Application</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ï%<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.pe.gatech.edu/conted/servlet/edu.gatech.conted.course.ViewCourseDetails?COURSE_ID=77">Principles of Continuous Wave (CW) Radar</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ï%<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.pe.gatech.edu/conted/servlet/edu.gatech.conted.course.ViewCourseDetails?COURSE_ID=286">Space-Based Radar</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ï%<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.pe.gatech.edu/conted/servlet/edu.gatech.conted.course.ViewCourseDetails?COURSE_ID=552">Space-Time Adaptive Processing: Applications to Radar</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .5in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ï%<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.pe.gatech.edu/conted/servlet/edu.gatech.conted.course.ViewCourseDetails?COURSE_ID=917">Fundamentals of Earth Remote Sensing</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>The complete list of defense-related Georgia Tech short courses (as well as many other subject areas) is available at the <a href="http://www.dlpe.gatech.edu/">Distance Learning and Professional Education</a> site. You can also find information on academic credit courses offered for distance learning at this site.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_24" o:spid="_x0000_i1033" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="BD15072_" style='width:451.5pt; height:6.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image004.gif" o:title="BD15072_"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=602 height=9 src="index_files/image012.gif" alt="BD15072_" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_24"><![endif]></span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><a name=textbook></a><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'><a href="FundRadarSigProc.htm">Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing</a></span></b><span style='font-size:1.0pt;background:black;mso-ansi-language:X-NONE;mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;mso-bidi-language:X-NONE;layout-grid-mode:line'> </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_16" o:spid="_x0000_s1143" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="FRSP_cover" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0; margin-top:0;width:49.5pt;height:65.55pt;z-index:1;visibility:visible; mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0; mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical:top;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image007.jpg" o:title="FRSP_cover"/> <w:wrap type="square" side="left" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=66 height=87 src="index_files/image014.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt="FRSP_cover" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_16"><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Published by McGraw-Hill in 2005, this is a text I have written based on the Georgia Tech graduate course ECE 6272 of the same name, as well as the Continuing Education course, also of the same name. <a href="FundRadarSigProc.htm" target="_blank">This link</a> provides the Table of Contents and Preface, links to book purchase web sites, the errata sheet as it develops, supplemental notes on assorted topics, and information on a number of instructor resources for institutions adopting the book for a course.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_26" o:spid="_x0000_i1032" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="BD15072_" style='width:451.5pt; height:6.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image004.gif" o:title="BD15072_"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=602 height=9 src="index_files/image012.gif" alt="BD15072_" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_26"><![endif]></span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Principles of Modern Radar, volume 1: Basic Principles</span></b><span style='font-size:1.0pt; background:black;mso-ansi-language:X-NONE;mso-fareast-language:X-NONE; mso-bidi-language:X-NONE;layout-grid-mode:line'> </span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_50" o:spid="_x0000_s1142" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="image002" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0; margin-top:0;width:52.5pt;height:63.95pt;z-index:2;visibility:visible; mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0; mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical:top;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image013.jpg" o:title="image002"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=70 height=85 src="index_files/image016.jpg" align=left hspace=12 alt=image002 v:shapes="Picture_x0020_50"><![endif]><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>I am the editor-in-chief of this new text r</span>eleased in May 2010.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><a href="http://www.scitechpublishing.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&amp;ProdID=540" target="_blank">Principles of Modern Radar, vol. 1: Basic Principles</a></i>, is intended to become the new  Radar 101 text of choice.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Ideal as both a text for newcomers and a reference for practitioners, it provides an excellent foundation for the  Radar 102 level of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Fundamentals of Radar Signal Processing</i>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Available from <a href="http://www.scitechpublishing.com/" target="_blank">SciTech Publishing</a><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_27" o:spid="_x0000_i1031" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="BD15072_" style='width:451.5pt; height:6.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image004.gif" o:title="BD15072_"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=602 height=9 src="index_files/image012.gif" alt="BD15072_" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_27"><![endif]></span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>A Beginners Guide to Interferometric SAR Concepts and Signal Processing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>(Including color versions of images in the manuscript)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>M. A. Richards,</span><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>  <a href="AESS_IFSAR.htm">A Beginners Guide to Interferometric SAR Concepts and Signal Processing</a>, IEEE <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Aerospace and Electronics Systems Magazine</i>, Tutorial Issue IV, vol. 22, no. 9, pt. 2, pp. 5-29, September 2007</span><span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>. This link leads to a pdf copy of the manuscript and color versions of selected images from the manuscript. The important features of these images are much more perceptible in color than in the grayscale versions in the manuscript.</span><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_28" o:spid="_x0000_i1030" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="BD15072_" style='width:451.5pt; height:6.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image004.gif" o:title="BD15072_"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=602 height=9 src="index_files/image012.gif" alt="BD15072_" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_28"><![endif]></span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><a name=ExascaleReport></a><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>Exascale Computing Study Reports<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Beginning in mid-2007, DARPA/IPTO sponsored a series of studies intended to understand the future course of mainstream computing technology and determine whether or not it would allow a 1,000X increase in the computational capabilities of computing systems by the 2015 time frame. Where current technology trends were deemed incapable of achieving such increases, the studies were also charged with identifying the major challenges and the areas where additional targeted research could lay the groundwork for overcoming them.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>The publicly-released final reports of the first exascale computing study, which focuses more on the hardware issues, and the subsequent exascale computing software study, are available <a href="ExascaleComputingStudyReports/ECS_reports.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_29" o:spid="_x0000_i1029" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="BD15072_" style='width:451.5pt; height:6.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image004.gif" o:title="BD15072_"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=602 height=9 src="index_files/image012.gif" alt="BD15072_" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_29"><![endif]></span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Essay on the Relative Contributions of Moore s Law and Algorithms to Digital Signal Processing<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>M. A. Richards and G. A. Shaw,  </span><a href="Richards&amp;Shaw_Algorithms01204.pdf">C<span style='mso-bookmark:_Ref58646677'></span>hips, Architectures and Algorithms: Reflections on the Exponential Growth of Digital Signal Processing Capability</a><![if !supportNestedAnchors]><a name="_Ref58646677"></a><![endif]> . A portion of the ideas in this paper were published at the 2004 High Performance Embedded computing (HPEC) Workshop.<span style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_30" o:spid="_x0000_i1028" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="BD15072_" style='width:451.5pt; height:6.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image004.gif" o:title="BD15072_"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=602 height=9 src="index_files/image012.gif" alt="BD15072_" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_30"><![endif]></span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Recent Research Papers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <h5 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I don t do a lot of papers, but here are a handful of relatively recent papers that are representative of my research activities:<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p><a name="GPU_QR_paper"></a><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>A. R, Kerr, D. P. Campbell, and M. A. Richards,  <a href="Kerr_Campbell_Richards_QRD_on_GPUs.pdf">QR Decomposition on GPUs</a> , Proceedings 2nd Workshop on General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU), Washington, DC, March 8, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style='text-align:justify'><a name="GPU_VSIPL_paper"></a><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>A. R, Kerr, D. P. Campbell, and M. A. Richards,  <a href="GPU-VSIPL%20HPEC08%20presentation.pdf">GPU VSIPL: High-Performance VSIPL Implementation for GPUs</a> , Proceedings 2008 High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, September 23-25, 2008. (This is just a presentation, not a paper.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>P. A. Karasev, D. P. Campbell, and M. A. Richards,  <a href="GPU_paper.pdf">Obtaining a 35x Speedup in 2D Phase Unwrapping</a> , <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Proceedings</i> 2007 IEEE Radar Conference, Waltham, MA, pp. 574-578, 17-20 April, 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>S. D. Fisher, M. A. Richards, and G. A. Showman,  <a href="IPFA_paper.pdf">An Inverse Polar Format Algorithm for Turntable Spotlight ISAR Imaging Systems Using Stepped Frequency Waveforms</a> , <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Proceedings</i> 2004 IEEE Radar Conference, pp. 212-217, April, 2004.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>M. A. Richards,  <a href="Phase_noise_loss_(published_version).pdf">Coherent Integration Loss due to White Gaussian Phase Noise</a> , IEEE <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Signal Processing Letters</i>, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 208-210, July 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>M. A. Richards, D. P. Campbell, and K. M. Mackenzie,  <a href="MSI%20GOMAC%20paper.pdf">Morphware Stable Interface: A Software Framework for Polymorphous Computing Architectures</a> , <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Digest of Papers</i>, 2003 Government Microcircuits Applications Conference (GOMAC).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>W. W. Bonifant, Jr., M. A. Richards, and J. H. McClellan,  <a href="Bonifant200dpiBW.pdf">Interferometric height estimation of the seafloor via synthetic aperture sonar in the presence of motion errors</a> , IEE <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Proceedings - Radar, Sonar, and Navigation</i>, vol. 147, no.6, pp. 322-330, Dec. 2000. Based on Will Bonifant s M.S. thesis at Georgia Tech, this paper was subsequently awarded the Clarke Griffiths Memorial Premium prize by IEE in July 2002.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>A <a href="#SAS">MATLAB simulation</a> of 2D and 3D SAS is available below.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_31" o:spid="_x0000_i1027" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="BD15072_" style='width:451.5pt; height:6.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image004.gif" o:title="BD15072_"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=602 height=9 src="index_files/image012.gif" alt="BD15072_" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_31"><![endif]></span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'>Book Chapters:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <h5 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I have edited or contributed chapters to a few other books along the way:<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>M. A. Richards, A. J. Gadient, and G. A. Frank, editors, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792398718/qid=1052693247/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-6550823-3600621?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846">Rapid Prototyping of Application Specific Signal Processors</a></i>, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>This book was a result of the DARPA Rapid Prototyping of Application-Specific Signal Processors (RASSP) program of the mid-1990s, for which I served as Program Manager during 1993-95.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>There is still a <a href="http://www.eda.org/rassp/index.html">RASSP archive site</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'> Synthetic Aperture Processing (Chapter 10) and  Doppler Processing (Chapter 8) in G. V. Morris and L. L. Harkness, editors, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0890068674/qid=1052693315/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6550823-3600621?v=glance&amp;s=books">Airborne Pulsed Doppler Radar</a></i>, 2nd edition, Artech House, Norwood, Massachusetts, 1996.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'> Nonlinear Effects in Fourier Transform Processing (Chapter 6) and  Motion Compensation Fundamentals (Chapter 7) in J. A. Scheer and J. L. Kurtz, editors, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0890066280/qid=1052693342/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/103-6550823-3600621">Coherent Radar Performance Estimation</a></i>. Artech House, Norwood, Massachusetts, 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'> Signal Processor Architecture for Pulse Train Processors , Section 11.7 in F. E. Nathanson, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/189112109X/qid=1052693400/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-6550823-3600621?v=glance&amp;s=books">Radar Design Principles</a></i>, 2nd edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1991.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;mso-no-proof:yes'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_32" o:spid="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="BD15072_" style='width:451.5pt; height:6.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'> <v:imagedata src="index_files/image004.gif" o:title="BD15072_"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img border=0 width=602 height=9 src="index_files/image012.gif" alt="BD15072_" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_32"><![endif]></span></b><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><a name=Consulting></a><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'>Consulting and Expert Witness<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <h5 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>I occasionally consult in the areas of radar signal processing, high performance embedded computing, and digital signal processing.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Please contact me at the phone or e-mail address above for more information or to discuss potential consulting activities.<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <h5 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left: 0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal; mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>In January 2008, I served for the first time as an expert witness in a patent litigation on the topics of radar technology generally, and radar imaging specifically.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>That was interesting stuff!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Please contact me at the phone or e-mail address above to discuss potential expert witness activities.<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 4.5pt; padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'> <p style='tab-stops:7.0in;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 4.5pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><b><span style='mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:Batang;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> </div> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'>Problems with this page? Please contact:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt'><a href="mailto:mark.richards@ece.gatech.edu">mark.richards@ece.gatech.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span style='mso-bidi-font-family: Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html>