THE COMPANY
Founded in 1980, B. B. Tech Enterprises is a privately owned research and consulting firm
engaged in developing high technology based systems for process control in a wide variety
of scientific and industrial applications. Major areas of innovation include the design of
specialized sensors for ultraviolet, visible, infrared, ionizing and radio frequency
electromagnetic radiation.
From its inception, B. B. Tech has been active in pioneering the use of recursive loop
image-constructing hardware and software for use in perceptual networks that demonstrate
pattern recognition through self-organizing selective tuning.
In 1987, Vision Research, a subdivision of B. B. Tech Enterprises was launched in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, to investigate the use of genetic programming algorithms for the
precision replication of complex dynamic processes.
KEY COMPANY PERSONNEL
Kenneth L. Schafer, Jr., Ph.D., is the founder, director, and principal
research scientist at B. B. Tech Enterprises. Schafer holds a B.S. cum laude in psychology
from Denison University and received a doctoral degree in neuroscience from Florida State
University in 1970 for his study of sensory mechanisms underlying the detection of
ionizing radiation in a rhodopsin-based physiological system. After completing
postdoctoral work in visual perception at the Walter S. Hunter Laboratory of Brown
University in 1972, Schafer began an independent project involving the development of
hardware and software for the coding and spatio-temporal representation of information
from an ultrasonic sensor array. The culmination of this project, which was successfully
completed in early 1987, resulted in a state-of-the-art biomedical application of this
unique sensory and perceptual system.
Notable projects include the development of SQUID-based
(Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) systems for measuring event-related magnetic
fields generated by mechanisms of auditory localization in the human brain and, more
recently, classifier network software for recursive loop parallel processing control
systems utilized in the optimization of simultaneous spot and futures trading in foreign
exchange currency markets. This same classifier network software is also being used in
conjunction with a patented superconducting radio frequency electromagnetic sensor,
developed by B.B. Tech Enterprises, to enhance process control in the steel industry.
Robert Beekman, Chief Financial Officer for B. B. Tech Enterprises, is
Vice-President of Advanced Technology Programs for Vision Research.
M. Brian Jones , Chief Information Officer for B. B. Tech Enterprises, is
Director of Communications for Vision Research.
VISION RESEARCH
63 GREENE STREET SUITE 204
NEW YORK NY 10012 USA
PHONE [212] 966-0185 FAX [212] 334-4833
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