Humanic Systems Co

Humanic Systems Co. (HSC)

Founded in 1972, Humanic Systems provides three services:

Electronic prototype development, often microprocessor-based
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software for the Internet

February 1972: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, Vol. PC-15, no. 2, pp. 20-22, Restructuring Communications in Science and Technology, Conference Proceedings, Philadelphia, PA.
1972: Dr. Priest publishes RPI Doctoral Dissertation —The Need and Value of Restructuring Human Communication Systems: Towards the Human Communication System
1972: Principal Associate, Participation Systems. Based on the pioneering work of Murray Turoff (EIS computer conferencing), designed the basis for "Participate" -- a P2P note sharing system especially noted for its ability to support "topic branching" at any level in the conferencing hierarchy (Participate later became "PARTI" on the Source -- an early packet switching/Internet-based online portal.)
1973: Project Director, Technology + Economics. FCC contract and report: Monitoring the Technical Quality of Telecommunications Including Statistical Measurements for Dedicated Data Line Connections
1978: Principal Research Associate, MIT. Design and programming of the Bibliographic Management System (BMS) to provide researchers and librarians with the ability to create online catalogues of resources with Boolean search capabilities. The BMS was licensed by Brown University, General Foods, and Citicorp among others. The design was optimized to aid in group work, enabling the sharing of materials within a team
1983: Principal Research Associate, MIT. For the National Science Foundation, conducted a study of how to enhance technological innovation for the use of information technology in hospitals and related health professions by employing P2P (one-to-many) note sharing via electronic, terminal-based teleconferencing using Participate
1986: Dr. Priest shifted his efforts back to designing P2P and expert/decision-making software designs as part of Humanic Systems. Based on a Byte article on multivariate decision making, Humanic Systems developed and made available a PC-based program, Decision Maker/Modeler extending the Byte-reported approach by supported multiple decision factors in a hierarchy of decision-factors
1987: Familiar with Jack Rockart's use of "Critical Success Factors" (Center for Information Systems Research, CISR, MIT) it became clear that the same "controlled vocabulary" used to index resources could also, in many cases, be used as critical success factors in decision making in an enterprise or endeavor
1987: It became clear that access to resources would become increasing available using either via packet-based or telephone-based messaging systems (aka, at that time, e-mail). And, a PC could have a dedicated database, based on the controlled vocabulary (aka topics or folder names) and that when there is a reasonable correspondence between such folders (and sub-folders — sub-topics), peer-to-peer messaging could be better provided and coordinated
1987: Employing the C language, an IBM PC, and background telecommunications via dial-up telephone connections, an ANSI graphical program was designed to run under DOS. The "four layer" design employed the folders to coordinate access to stored resources in "another layer" (all media including text, graphics, sound and video) and another layer provided the transport of such notes, resources, etc., via telecommunications. A "fourth layer" embedded the Decision-Maker/Modeler
1987: Mr. William H. Morris, previously VP for Marketing and Sales for Wang Laboratories joined the firm as President and Dr. Priest became the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). This division of Humanic Systems was called Knowledge Spreadsheet Technologies (KST). The name was chosen to help in marketing the product, BusinessAlly, so that comparisons could be made to products such as Lotus 1-2-3 where instead of thinking of an arrangement of data, the product provided an arrangement of information and knowledge. The modeling aspect (i.e., the ways in which critical factors combined towards achieving a goal) provided a way to describe how information and knowledge could come together as a form of understanding
1988: BusinessAlly was introduced to the market
1989: A patent application was filed with the US Patent Office for the invention and the patent was granted in 1992 (5,167,011)
1992: KST assigned licensing rights to REFAC International — a widely respected technology licensing firm
Throughout the early and mid '90s various companies acquired a non-exclusive license to the technologies
1995: The US Patent Office awarded a second patent — one that further covered the use of such P2P technologies for the marketing and sales of products and services (5,829,002)
2000: In the '90s, licenses mainly were obtained to cover mostly e-mail clients and systems. However, beginning in the new millennium, users found such tools too limited in their abilities to provide desired P2P services and with the advent of new protocols such as RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and P2P coordinating tools called aggregators, a movement called Web 2.0 created a renewed demand for KST patented technologies. The firm continues to actively pursue a program to inform potential licensees of the technologies

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The Chief Engineer of HSC is W. Curtiss Priest, PhD (of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, RPI). Dr. Priest is currently also a Research Affiliate at MIT, Coordinator for Advanced Innovative Projects at the Charles River Museum of Industry (CRMI), and Director of the Center for Information, Technology & Society (CITS).

Dr. Priest is a member of IEEE and was cited as "one of the fifty people who most matter on the Internet (Newsweek, 1996). HSC clients include Verizon, GTE, Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) and Polaroid. P2P patents are licensed to Microsoft, Qualcomm, Sony, and others. One P2P innovation involved linking K-12 students to online mentors based on the content of the student-viewed-web page.

HSC laboratories are located in Melrose, MA (USA). To provide customers with low cost products and services, HSC pioneers in identifying and combining existing technologies, where the effort to achieve a new result is minimized. This process of "not reinventing the wheel" provides rapid prototyping for customers.

One of HSC's current developments involves medical devices and monitoring.

Inquires should be directed to Dr. Priest.

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