Other Interests

• Tax Reform Amendment.  Over the past fifteen years, I have drafted and refined a proposal for a Constitutional amendment for extending the principle of checks and balances to the government's power of taxation.  Please click on the link.  Your comments are invited. 
• Lawsuit Reform.  I am promoting legislation at the Federal and State levels to prevent punitive damages from being awarded to plaintiffs or their attorneys on the grounds that anyone who gets pleasure or profit from punishing another is in need of an attitude adjustment.  Actual damages, including reasonable and customary legal fees, should certainly be awarded to the plaintiff, but punitive damages ought to be divided between a charity pool and a fund for the improvement of the judiciary.  This is the only way to prevent people from abusing the courts as a new form of lottery.   
• Although I love to tackle almost any problem in applied and computational mathematics, I am really salivating for a client with the following requirements:  Design and implementation of a video codec, a signal processing integrated circuit that deploys a distributed processor lattice to solve a certain differential equation for application to optical flow, providing video compression, multi-target tracking (including track before detect), and eventually dynamic scene comprehension.  If this is your project, we need to talk.