About...
Philosophy
Most software is designed to automate and increase the
efficiency of existing processes. At some level, there should be
no mystery as to how software works; success is from some
combination of work and inspiration. I like to think that my
software is built on inspiration grown from the hard work. There's no mystery.
Keith Rowand
First computer programming on TRS-80 in 1981. 1.7 MHz Z-80 baby!
B.S. in Engineering, field of study Computer
Science, United States Military Academy, West Point New York,
1981. For Excellence We Strive.
U.S. Army Armor Officer, Ft Irwin California,
1985 - 1988. Opfor Rules!
First Litigation Support experience with Electronic Data Systems
and Dickstein Shapiro & Morin, 1989. Rolled the Hard Ten.
Systems Engineer, Electronic Data Systems, 1990.
Pink Shirts Rule.
Litigation Support Specialist, Steptoe & Johnson, 1995.
Thanks for the opportunity Bob.
Created and sold a web server based on Concordance, 1999. And the winner is... Ian.
Initiated and prototyped an electronic document processing
system, OnSite Sourcing, 2000. DUKE lives.
Began creating a PC based document coding autocoder using entity
extraction and Natural Language Processing (NLP), 2001. Sold in
2008. Thank you D-Day.
Created a thesaurus based concept indexing system, 2004.
What could've been in New Orleans.
Created a semantic, date and entity concept indexing system
based on WordNet and ontologies capable of indexing 1 Million+
concepts, 2006. I liked the name Hex5.
Defined a methodology for sampling and surveying document
construction. Developed entirely new comparison programs in C#
based on that methodology, 2009. And here we are.
What's in a Name?
As Thomas Jefferson was suffering through a 1776 session of
the Continental Congress cutting up his draft of the Declaration
of Independence, Franklin attempted to ease his pain by telling
him a parable of a young hat maker who wanted to put a sign
outside his shop: "He composed it in these words, 'John
Thompson, hatter, makes and sells hats for ready money,' with a
figure of a hat subjoined. But he thought he would submit it to
his friends for their amendments. The first he showed it to
thought the word 'Hatter' tautologous, because followed by the
words 'makes hats,' which showed he was a hatter. It was struck
out. The next observed that the word 'makes' might as well be
omitted, because his customers would not care who made the
hats...He struck it out. A third said he thought the words 'for
ready money' were useless, as it was not the custom of the place
to sell on credit. Everyone who purchased expected to pay. They
were parted with; and the inscription now stood, 'John Thompson
sells hats.' 'Sells hats!' says his next friend; 'why, nobody
will expect you to give them away. What then is the use of that
word? It was stricken out, and 'hats' followed,...rather
[uselessly] as there was painted on the board. So his
inscription was reduced ultimately to 'John Thompson," with the
figure of a hat subjoined."
So, Rowand Software (I don't know how to make a picture of
software).
