
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
History:
- 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
- DIY (do-it-yourself) instructions and resources to promote equipment reuse
and to aid self-sustainability for this planet. For various DIY
"technical notes" on web servers, computers, and
electronics click Here
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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