If you've tried using the web interface and are still unsure what  to do just drop me a line. Don't worry that my travel plans might prevent me from answering, I always arrange for friends to answer my mail when I'm away.

In my spare time, I enjoy surfing the web. Here is a list of usernames and passwords that I used to register at various web sites; it has been kindly put together by Rob O'Callahan.

For those of you who want to know more about me, here is a somewhat outdated version of my vita:

CURRENT POSITION

• Senior Computer Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University, October 1979 to present.

• D.Sc. (Honorary) Universita"t Unter-Oberflunken am Main, March 1979.
• Ph.D. Carnegie-Mellon University, June 1969. Thesis title, Theory of Hyper Driven Devices.Advisor, A.J. Perlis.
• B.A. Carnegie-Mellon University, May 1965.

Carnegie-Mellon University

• Senior Computer Scientist, 1979 to present.
• Denotational semantics of Pidgin and Creole languages. --exploring/expounding the virtuesof so-called ``dead'' languages as P-code for the Indo-European culture.

• Science Consultant, 1986 to present.

• Member of Technical Staff, 1983, 1984. Psychology of Expert systems -- current workfocuses on deriving via Godelization from Freudian and Jungian axioms the inherent  lassitude of any sufficiently powerful expert system.

• White House Fellow, 1978. Was responible for strategic consultation on xenophobic nuclearexchange scenarios.

• Staff Scientist, 1976-1977. Directed the DUODENUM screen-based tape editor project.Extensive development of Deep-Space Navigational software for MFEC projects.

Project Scientist, 1972-1975. Was active in the first practical demonstration of a Hyper DrivenTransport System (HYDIRT).

PERSONAL DATA

• Born April 1, 1943 in Pittsburgh, Pa* Single
• US Citizenship

Association of Computing Machinery GLUNCH Executive Committee, 1979-1981
SIGPSYCH Editorial Board 1983-1984, 1993-1996
SIGNESIS Remote Manipulation Committee, 1985
SIGMAGE Divining and Prophesying Subcommittee, 1986-1987
SIGSEER Tarot Analysis Director, 1989
SIGMAGE Thaumaturgy Subcommittee, 1990
SIGWITCH  Haruspicy Structure Analysis Commitee, 1996
Human-Computer Counteraction, Editor in Chief, 1994-1998

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers,
Senior MemberIEEE Computer Society

Hester Prynne Fan Club, President 1963-1964.
Delta Epsilon Iota

GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

• NIH Study of Paralyzing Compilers, 1990.
• EPA Environmentally Sound Computing Study, 1987-1988.
• NIMH Software Analysis and Counselling Grant, 1983-1985.
• D'Abro Physical Society Distinguished Achievement Award, 1982.
• Elected Senior Master of the Arts, 1978.
• D.S. Green Award, Royal Aeronautical Society Service Citation Award, 1975.

• Bovik, H. "Breath-First Techniques for the Game of Life",  in Artificial Intelligences Health, 5(88-108), 1998.
• Bovik, H. "Picobots and Hyper Driven Devices," in Journal of Microscopic Systems,3(5-95), 1997.
• Bovik, H.  "Languages for Artificial Intelligences", in Proc. 12th Intl. Conf. on Psychic Linguistics, Monterey, CA, 1997.
• Bovik, H. "Automatic  Translation to Hattili", in  "Languages Today", 7(88-96), 1994.
• Bovik, H.  "Computer-Aided Tumoring Systems", in  Human-Computer Counteraction, 5(35-64), 1994.
• Bovik, H. ``The Effects of Hardware Interrupts on Artificial Intelligences,'' in ComputationalArchitectures, 1(12-15), 1991.
• Bovik, H. ``Paralyzing Compilers,'' in Quadreplegics Quarterly, 14(178-193), 1991.

• Bovik, H. (ed) 25th Anniversary Symposium: Computer Science at Carnegie MellonUniversity, A Commemorative Review, School of Computer Science, 1990.
• Bovik, H. ``Parallel Languages for Parallel Universes,'' Otherworldly Computing, 3(391-407),1990.
• Bovik, H. ``On the Efficacy of Closing Circuits to Recycle Electrons,'' in Green Computing,5(108-114), 1990.
• Bovik, H. ``Nanobots and Hyper Driven Devices,'' in Journal of Microscopic Systems,3(103-163), 1989.2
• Bovik, H. ``Wind-Driven Disk Drives,'' in PCPC: the Journal of Politically Correct PersonalComputers, 4(57-58), 1989.
• Bovik, H. and Fakir, A. ``Hyper Driven Devices--Theory and Practice,'' in Journal of HigherSpaces, 14(251-276), 1988.
• Bovik, H. ``Counseling Artificially Intelligent Programs,'' in Journal of Personality and SocialPsychology, 25(503-531), 1988.
• Bovik, H. ``Geopathogenic Effects of Magnetostatic Fields,'' Verlorene Welt Zeitscrift,Untechnologishes Quatschmuseum, 1987.
• Bovik, H. and Mesmer, I. ``Optimal Neuro-Linguistic Networks for Circular Reasoning'', inProc. 4th Intl. Conf. on Cognitive Para-Psychology, Santa Cruz, CA, May-July 1987.

• Bovik, H. and Rude, B. ``Program Vilification Overview: 1970-1986,'' in Tourette's, 7(97-124),1986.
• Nesis, T. K. and Bovik, H. ``Propulsion by Means of Cogno-Magnetic Forces'', in Proc. 3rdIntl. Conf. on Cognitive Para-Psychology, Cairo, Aug-Oct 1985.
• Fink, A. R. and Bovik, H. ``Self Coercing Codes'' in Bitstring Magazine, 1,1. 1985.
• Bovik, H. and Fink, A. R. ``On the Economic Feasibility of Programming Turing Machines,'' inD. Fu and H. Bar (Eds) MegaSoftware, CompuPress International, 1984.
• Bovik, H. ``On The Inevitability of Manic-Depressive Behaviour in Artificially IntelligentPrograms,'' Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 21, 1984.
• Bovik, H. ``Hyperbolic trends in Pidgin-Swahili using AI Techniques,'' Fourth InternationalConference on Meso-African Languages, University of Bophuthatswana, 1983.
• Bovik, H. The Happy Hacker, Metaphysical introspections of a tenured graduate student,CompuPress International, 1983.
• Bovik, H. Theory of Hyper Driven Devices, Aero Press, 1976.
• Bovik, H. ``The Driving Forces Behind Hyper Driven Devices'', in Journal of Higher Spaces,Vol 1, 1975.
• Bovik, H. ``Cereal processing devices in the guts of a new computer'' H. Clowes (Ed.), DataDigest, 5, 6. 1966.

Two concerning Hyper Driven Devices:

• "Improved Hyper Flux Confinement Generator", U.S. Patent 3,141,592. Granted 1977.
• "A Hyper Flux Propulsion System", U.S. Patent 2,718,281. Granted 1972.

• Expert System Psychology* Denotational Semantics of Pidgin and Creole Languages
• Deep Space Navigation* Thaumaturgic Circles, Rings, and Fields
• Hyper Driven Devices