Jack D. Grimes, Ph.D.
Dr. Grimes has over 35 years experience in the computer, Internet and video graphics industries with ServiceHub, Visa International, ICVerify, Taligent, Mass Microsystems, Intel, IT&T, and Tektronix. Mr. Grimes has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in Internet commerce, Java, ASP, Unix, NT, scalability, security and payments, data security, chip cards, credit and debit cards, SET and ACH methods, computer graphics and TV video platforms, video capture and overlay systems, video display devices, ASIC design, compressed video, digital satellite TV technologies, and various internet platform architectures. He has developed Internet technology architecture with wireless data to SMS and browsers for mobile phones, chip card technology for Visa with internet payment systems, object-oriented applications for IBM, Apple and HP, video peripherals and graphic ASIC`s. Dr. Grimes has testified as an expert witness in numerous patent cases involving payment systems, computer systems and displays, e-commerce, automated trading systems, ASIC`s, LCD panel controllers, remote image capture, wireless technology, 3D graphics, CRT monitors, power saving circuits, and video display and graphic systems. Dr. Grimes has testified in numerous ITC, Markman and Federal patent cases and has published many articles in the aforementioned technologies. He received BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1965, 1968 and 1970, respectively and a MS degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oregon in 1981. View Full CV

Michael J. Potel, Ph.D.
Dr. Potel has over 35 years experience in the Computer and Software industries with Taligent, Apple Computer and the University of Chicago. Dr. Potel has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in Internet commerce, Java, Internet software, User Interfaces, 3D Imaging, personal computing, object-oriented systems, computer graphics, software IP and various operating systems. He has developed products with Java and C++ class libraries, tools and component based groupware, Apple Computer-Macintosh products, OS, QuickTime, QuickDraw, TrueType, AppleScript, MAC ROM`s, multimedia products and Apple II, graphics cards, video, sound and speech cards and chips, RISC, Apple MIDI interface and various systems applications. Dr. Potel has been an expert witness in numerous patent cases involving graphics projection systems, 3D graphic and video processors, printer halftone dithering technology, web servers, e-commerce, browsers, 2D and 3D in CAD systems, Java databases, WEB authoring systems, wireless messaging and email protocols, object-oriented software development tools, game systems graphics, WAP/WML Internet and object technology, video interfaces and Internet image displays. Dr. Potel has testified in numerous Federal patent cases, Markman hearings, and has published many articles and journal publications in the aforementioned technologies. He received a BS in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1970, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Information Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1971 and 1977, respectively. View Full CV

David A. Wilson, Ph.D.
Dr. Wilson has over 35 years experience in the Computer and Software industries with Portal Software, Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer, Xerox, SRI International, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Dr. Wilson has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in Java technologies, object-oriented programming, XML/SOAP web services, C , Smalltalk, Objective-C, Microsoft NET technologies, distributed computing including COBRA and Java RIM, graphical user interfaces (GUI), software development practices, processes, reuse, frameworks and design patterns, artificial life technologies, genetic algorithms, visual programming languages, digital cameras and ultrasonic imaging systems for medical diagnostics. He has developed software products including a dataflow-based visual programming language for doing complex numeric and financial calculations, two C++ applications frameworks, various Java tools for managing billing systems, a Java-based prototype of an automated teller machine, a real-time UV visible spectrophotometer and numerous real-time ultrasonic imaging systems for medical diagnostics. Dr. Wilson has testified as an expert witness in numerous patent cases involving visual programming languages, nuclear medicine software, data mining software, telecommunications billing systems software and traffic systems software and has published many articles and journal publications in the aforementioned technologies. He received a BS in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1965, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1967 and 1970, respectively. View Full CV

Expert has more than seventeen years of experience in research and development of digital image/video technologies and multimedia systems. He has led a large research team at a prominent University in developing cutting-edge systems in image/video processing & indexing, compressed video manipulation, and media authentication. He has made important contributions to the development of new international standards of MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and JPEG-2000 Security. His research has been widely recognized with many paper awards and supported with broad funding from government and a large industry consortium. He frequently serves as consultant or advisor to companies in the media technology area.

• Digital Image/Video Processing
• Video Coding/Compression
• Video Indexing and Analysis
• Image/Video Watermarking and Authentication
• Image Database
• Multimedia Storage and Retrieval
• Statistical Pattern Recognition
• MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 Standards

1001
Expert has over 35 years of computer science and electrical engineering industry experience. He has prior experience in multiple engagements as a patent infringement and class action expert witness. Currently an independent consultant, he has worked for large computer manufacturers as part of engineering teams developing hardware and software systems. He has testifying and deposition experience.

• Circuit Design
• Computer Disk Drive Design
• Computer Disk Seek Servo Systems
• Host Computer Interfaces
• Integrated Disk Controller Design
• Microcontroller Interfaces
• PC BIOS Software
• PC, Windows & Embedded Software
• PC Languages

1003
Expert has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT and over 30 years of experience in computer science and information technology. He has worked on more than ten patent infringement cases as an expert witness, with additional casework in software contract disputes and forensic analysis. His career history includes numerous executive level positions. He provides consulting services for computer software development contracts for Internet and client-server software implementation, disaster recovery for large scale IT operations, forensic analysis of computer data and electronic discovery from computer disks, secure business transactions for web-based e-commerce systems, spyware research, database integration, and web application servers.

• ERP systems - financial, distribution, manufacturing, CRM
• eCommerce - Secure web transactions, authentication
• Security, authentication, networking, firewalls, hacking countermeasures, backups, archives and service level agreements for customer-outsourced data
• Architecture and design of complex business systems
• Oracle 8i, 9i and SQL Server 2000 database technology
• Forensic data acquisition and analysis
• Microsoft Visual Studio component and application design Text
• Web integration of authentication services, streaming media services, ad displays, content feeds
• Implementation of real-time and media streaming systems
• Java, C, C++, Visual Basic, assembly language programming
• Embedded microprocessor designs
• Network equipment design and manufacture
• Semiconductor manufacturing - yield analysis, semiconductor defect analysis

1005
Expert is a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and has 30 years of experience in the microprocessor field with over 30 patents. He has worked for major semiconductor manufacturers as an architecture manager, engineering manager, and principal engineer. His body of work includes the Itanium processor, graphics processors, and Pentium series, where he was involved in technical definitions, product requirements, and design options. He was also involved in early efforts of 64-bit architecture design and instruction set architecture. He has previous expert witness experience.

• Microprocessor Design
• VLSI Design
• Graphics processor Design
• Computer Architecture

1013
Expert has a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering and over twenty years experience in high-speed fiber-optic and electronic component design and manufacturing, semiconductor fabrication, and device physics. His experience includes original theoretical and experimental contributions in the field of optical and microwave semiconductor devices, development of semiconductor device processes and equipment. He has fourteen patents and previous experience as an expert witness with testifying experience.

• Semiconductor lasers
• Microwave semiconductor diodes
• Light-emitting diodes (LED)
• Fiber-optics and devices
• Silicon and compound semiconductor device processing and process characterization
• Semiconductor processing equipment
• Mathematical modeling of electronic and opto-electronic devices, packages, and systems
• Microwave and high-speed optical test equipment and methods

1015
Expert is a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at a nationally-known university. He has crafted numerous publications dealing with system architectures, data communication networks, and computer performance issues. His industry experience includes formerly a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs. He has previous expert witness experience.

• Digital Signal Processing Architectures
• General Purpose Computer Architectures
• VLSI Design
• Computer Graphics
• Memory system architecture
• DRAM, SRAM, EEPROM, and Flash memory

1025
Expert has extensive experience with storage devices, interfaces and file systems, including Hard Disks, RAID/Disk Arrays, Tape, Optical Storage (CD, DVD, WORM, Magneto-Optical), jukeboxes, Storage Area Networks (SAN), SCSI, iSCSI, Fiber (Fibre) Channel, IDE/ATA/ATAPI, USB, as well as with Server Blades. He has written device drivers and software and firmware under Windows/DOS, UNIX variants (including Sun and Silicon Graphics) and embedded real-time operating systems (RTOSs). Expert has been a software developer, project lead, industry analyst, seminar leader, technical marketer and technical writer. He has participated in nearly 50 conferences as a speaker, session chair and conference chair. He is experienced with various programming languages, including C, C++ and assembly. Expert has also been an expert witness and expert consultant in nearly 50 engagements involving patent, trade secret, copyright, class action and contractual disputes. These have drawn on over twenty years of experience in the storage industry and over thirty years of experience as a computer engineer, and have involved technology in the storage, IC CAD, software and hardware industries. He has written expert reports, been deposed, and has provided courtroom testimony at trial. His engagements have involved source code analysis and comparisons, object code disassembly, benchmarking, and computer media duplication, as well as forensic analysis on data storage devices and file systems using tools including EnCase.

• Device Drivers
• Embedded Firmware
• SCSI, iSCSI
• IDE/ATA/ATAPI
• Fiber (Fibre) Channel
• USB
• Real-time Operating Systems
• Optical Storage: CD, DVD, WORM
• Storage Area Networks (SAN)
• Disk Arrays/RAID
• Server Blades
• File Systems

1033
Expert has over 22 years of industry experience building mission-critical, commercial Object-Oriented systems. His work has focused on the design and development of complex multi-tier application server architectures, enterprise application integrations, and deploying complex, distributed web/object systems. He has 16 years of experience with numerous operating systems and programming languages, including Smalltalk-80, VisualWorks 1.0 to 7, Smalltalk/V, VisualAge, Envy, stORE, and most 3rd-party tools. He has 6 years with CORBA, DST, GemStone. XP, and UML. He also has in depth hands-on expertise in .NET, XML, SOAP, Java, J2EE, Internet Protocols, Web Services, and Application Servers integration strategies. He is also an expert in Enterprise Software QA, Due Diligence and Audits. For the last 10 years, expert has specialized in consulting primarily for Telecommunications companies. He has prior expert witness experience.

• Design and Development of multi-tier Application Server Architectures
• Hosting environments and ISPs
• Distributed Web/Object Systems
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Telecommunications Technologies
• Programming Languages
• Internet Protocols
• Object Oriented Systems
• Application Servers

1042
Expert is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Sciences, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is well known as the inventor or co-inventor of Order Statistic Filters; the Gabor Texture Model; the Image Modulation Model; the Structural Similarity (SSIM) and Visual Information Fidelity (VIF) Indices for image quality assessment, the MOtion-based Video Integrity Evaluation (MOVIE) index for video quality assessment, the LIVE Image and Video Quality Databases, and SIVA - the Signal, Image and Video Audiovisual Demonstration Gallery (used by more than 400 sites around the world), as well as many other contributions to the fields of image and video processing, computational vision, digital microscopy, and modeling of biological visual perception. He has published over 500 technical articles in these areas and holds two U.S. patents. He is also the author of three books. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and Markman testimony.

• Image Processing
• Digital Video Communication
• Computational Biological Visual Perception
• Signal Processing
• Pattern Analysis and Processing

1051
This expert is an industry consultant to the computing industry and is an experience expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• BIOS
• Firmware
• Internet Design Tools
• JAVA
• Multimedia Software
• PC Software
• PCMCIA Software
• Power Management Software

1062
Expert has more than seventeen years of experience in research and development of digital image/video technologies and multimedia systems. He has led a large research team at a prominent University in developing cutting-edge systems in image/video processing & indexing, compressed video manipulation, and media authentication. He has made important contributions to the development of new international standards of MPEG-7, MPEG-21, and JPEG-2000 Security. His research has been widely recognized with many paper awards and supported with broad funding from government and a large industry consortium. He frequently serves as consultant or advisor to companies in the media technology area.

• Digital Image/Video Processing
• Video Coding/Compression
• Video Indexing and Analysis
• Image/Video Watermarking and Authentication
• Image Database
• Multimedia Storage and Retrieval
• Statistical Pattern Recognition
• MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 Standards

1065
This expert holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT. He is a seasoned technology expert and business professional with over 10 years of hands-on contributions as a thought leader, technologist, consultant, entrepreneur, and author. He is an expert in computer software systems, with particular emphasis on distributed systems and architectures, service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and Web Services, end-to-end security, quality-of-service (QoS), as well as mobile and wireless systems and applications. He is the author of a book on developing enterprise computing systems, which has been adopted by over 100 universities worldwide and also by corporate customers. Expert has extensive experience in architecting, developing, optimizing, deploying and managing complex computing systems throughout the world, and technical expertise in developing enterprise-class applications using J2EE, XML, SOAP Web services, and mobile technologies. He has invented, architected, and led the development (product, QA, documentation) as well as the initial sales & marketing efforts for key eBusiness, mobile, Web services, and J2EE middleware products and solutions. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments.

• J2EE Application Servers
• Servlets / JSPs / EJBs
• Web Services & Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs)
• SOAP, WSDL, UDDI
• Portals & Portlets
• Optimized Mobile/Wireless Systems
• POS terminals, PDAs, Phones and other mobile devices
• Security & Authentication
• Financial Transactioning
• Programming Languages, including C, C++, Java, and tools including Jbuilder and IntelliJ
• Operating Systems, including Windows, Linux and Palm O

1066
Expert is the department chair and professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and is a professor at a prominent University. He has published more than 300 papers in various journals. He has also written a book and several book chapters. His research has been sponsored by (past and present) DARPA, NSF, NASA, AFOSR, ONR, DOE, Intel, IBM, and TI. His research interests are in High-Performance I/O and Storage, Databases and data warehouses, E-commerce and Web services, Storage systems, Super Computing and Parallel Computing, Embedded systems, Computer architecture, web-based systems, System Software and algorithms, Data Mining, Marketing and Analytical Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Business Intelligence, and Information Security. He is also interested in high-level synthesis on Systems-on-Chip applying compilation principles to the synthesis process. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments.

• Databases and data warehouses, OLAP
• E-commerce and web-based systems
• Programming Languages
• Storage systems
• Super Computing and Parallel Computing
• Embedded systems
• Computer architecture
• High-Performance I/O and storage
• On-Line marketing
• System Software and algorithms
• Data Mining
• Marketing and Analytical Marketing
• Customer Relationship Management
• Business Intelligence
• Information Security

1067
Expert is a professor in computer Science his Interests are uniprocessor architecture and organization, architecturally-focused performance measurement and analysis, computer architecture and more generally, clocking and timing issues in digital systems. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• Computer Architecture
• Memory Systems
• Data Storage

1070
Expert has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in probability and speech and signal processing, pattern recognition, and random processes. He was technical program co-chairman of Speech Tech `86 and Technical Program Chair of ICASSP `96. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, has served a member of the IEEE speech technical committee, and has been an associate editor of speech processing for IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, and is on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has been principal investigator on numerous sponsored research projects, primarily concerned with speech processing.

• Digital speech processing and analysis
• Speech recognition
• Analysis and compensation of stress in speech
• Sensory aids for the hearing impaired
• Pattern recognition
• Digital signal processing
• Information retrieval

1074
Over 30 years experience in all aspects of software system design, development, implementation, and small group management, including: particular expertise in X Windows, Motif, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), algorithms, and relational databases. Experience has been in a broad spectrum of technology, in several languages and in a wide variety of appli¬cations. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• Bioinformatics
• Computer Aided Engineering
• Computer Graphics
• Computer Simulations
• Database Design & Development
• Image Processing
• Software Design & Development
• Software Engineering

1076
Expert has nearly 30 years of experience in the development of computer software. He has a history of original application of software principles, techniques, and products to the needs of well-established and innovative business clients. He has worked with most types of operating systems, databases and programming languages used in business. He has real, commercial experience with 20+ programming languages and a reading knowledge of many more. He is adept at the actual application of those languages in a wide variety of industries. As a manager, project leader and developer, he has intimate practical knowledge of the software development process. As an independent consultant and developer since 1977, he is also familiar with vendor-client issues of contracting, delivery, acceptance and support for software services and products. In over a dozen years serving Exxon, he was responsible for a long string of "firsts" in the use of PCs in a rigorous commercial environment. Expert was the original author of all of the software that started and ran Karl Rove + Company`s direct mail marketing business from 1983 to 1999. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• Broad Consulting Background
• Software Development & Management
• Reading Ability of Most Languages
• Experience with Deposition & Trial
• Patents
• Trade Secrets
• Contracts
• Commercial

1081
Expert has worked as an expert witness in several areas: information security and forensics, Internet architecture and services, software development and analysis, electronic commerce and payments, trademark / copyright disputes, cybercrime investigation or defense, patent litigation, vulnerability research, and network intrusion countermeasures. He has provided clients with legal services in digital evidence investigations and electronic discovery legal case support. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• Information Security and Forensics
• Internet Architecture and Services
• Software Development and Analysis
• Electronic Commerce and Payments
• Trademark and Copyright Disputes
• Cybercrime Investigation or Defense
• Patent Prosecution and Litigation
• Vulnerability Research & Infosec
• Network Intrusion Countermeasures
• Digital Evidence Legal Case Support

1082
Expert is an intellectual property expert, with experience in software development, internetworking, information security, electronic commerce, search engine optimization, forensic software analysis, Internet and Internet applications, telecommunications, and as an art museum director/curator. He is widely published in his field and has testified in many Federal and State cases, both criminal and civil matters.

• Electronic Commerce
• Software Applications
• Networking Technologies
• Internet Technologies
• Forensic Software Analysis
• Computer Programming
• Intellectual Property

1083
Expert holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He has over 30 years of experience in software, systems and electrical engineering. His background includes patent prosecution and litigation, management of patent licensing projects, technical advisor for counsel, internet, web site and systems development, software product development, database management systems, software architecture, research and development, and system specification. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments.

• Databases
• Internet/Web/e-Commerce
• Client/Server, N-Tier Technology
• Graphics/GUIs
• Sensor Processing
• EEG Analysis
• GPS Tracking
• Pattern Recognition
• Computer Linguistics
• Content Analysis
• Patent Analysis and Licensing
• Algorithm Development
• Medical Records Database Analysis
• Software Architecture
• Embedded Systems
• Geographic Information Systems
• Distributed Computing
• Systems Development

1085
Expert has extensive experience and expertise with Java, Enterprise Java, incorporating new technologies into projects and instruction with Java Database Connectivity, CORBA, Servlets, E-mail, tracking systems, Enterprise Java Beans, Server-side Programming, Security, JavaBeans, Java Server Pages, Swing GUI Development for front end of Java programs, Unified Modeling Language for design and analysis for use in Internet Applications, C/C++, GUI development in Windows 95/98/NT platforms, project work including use of Standard Template Library and applications in DNA development.

• C/C++ Languages
• Distributed Systems
• Email Servers
• Enterprise Java
• Java & Java Database Connectivity
• Knowledge-Based Automated Software Testing
• Object Oriented Programming
• Server Programming
• UML (United Modeling Language)

1092
Expert has 43 years experience - eighteen years in the computer peripheral industry and twenty-five years as an independent contractor-consultant. He has broad experience in all phases of Product Development - Advanced Technology through Manufacturing. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• Electro-Mechanical design and development
• Product architecture design
• Initial design and development
• Prototype design, assembly and test
• Manufacturing, test equipment/life testers
• Design reviews/Problem solving
• Due diligence for investors
• Design and drafting courses