User:Ralph

Mr Ralph Holland has knowledge covering several domains. Which includes these interests to name a few:

• amateur radio and electronics,
• computer simulation, including antenna simulation,
• radar systems and message formats,
• tracking system software development (Kalman filters et al.),
• real-time GIS systems (2D and 3D),
• Attribute and Role Based Access Control Systems,
• Real-time Security and Communications Software,
• Radio Systems Engineering,
• Instrument Flying - he holds a Command Instrument Rating, and
• Software research development in various arenas:
  • real-time messaging
  • scalable concurrent software
  • efficient concurrent collections
  • fifth-generation and real-time geospatial databases
• using various languages, including:
  • compiled: Ada, C++, C, Pascal, FORTRAN,
  • virtual or intepreted: Java, Perl, Python, (a bit of C#),
  • and in the distant past: Assembly languages, LISP, Snobol, Simular, COBOL and PL1/g (and even INFO-BASIC),
  • Mr Holland also wrote boot-strap compilers for:
    • Ada
    • Pascal
    • portable-C, and
  • Cross-compilers for FORTRAN to C++ - well before GNU was born.

More details:

• Ralph Holland: Resume
• Ralph Holland: Development Experience
• Ralph Holland: Platform Experience
• Ralph Holland: Publications
• Index Page

Interests:

• computing
• Amateur Radio advanced operator, VK1BRH - aeronautical mobile
• electronics
• antenna simulation
• compilers, parsers and interpreters
• flying gliders, and flying power planes, and anything to do with flying - did I mention I am a pilot - lol?
• Radar, ADS-B, tracking and estimation (yes I am - see http://ir-gis.com)
• I own a Mooney Aircraft Company M20J 205 MSE VH-URH (ex N205BW that I imported in 2014 from Oregon) - the little one, not the big one.