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kevinf@debone.com
Last updated, December 18, 2022 (Can you find what's new?)
Kevin Ferguson, Rick Wills, Bob Agnes, and Kamalesh Patel pose with Emmy No. 6.
Email Kevin a message if you have any questions or comments.
BIO
DIVERGENT: As in the 2014 film, Kevin has made divergent choices all of his life: He chose "yes and" for: Music vs STEM; Science vs engineering; Re vs Im; Analog vs digital; HW vs SW; Music genres: A journey of whims, from every country, ancient to contemporary, head to heart, folk to EDM, trad + fusions, experimental...
While he has had airplay and media coverage around the world for many years, the top FAQ for Kevin Ferguson has been "Why aren't you more famous?" He's a moving target for any media, always exploring the boundaries of music, dance, science, technology, plants, spirituality, relationships & social norms over geography & history.
Some example results: ~50 patents, 18 albums, a technical Emmy, many publications,
thinkawe.com and Think Awe Podcast,
methods for managing the overwhelming plant extinction calamity, and a nutritarian recipe creation app (
recipefactory.net, plant based).
First known for virtuoso classical violin music on electric guitar, he's covered the Ottoman Empire, fractal music, virtuoso piano, crab cannon, rock, jazz, etc.
"Beauty In Your Head," (2019) mixes world, EDM, pop, rock + experimental.
The 6 volume, 100 track, 17 hour "Pure Fractals 2" (2020) is all of the above in 2-D fractal form.
"I'm No AI" highlights a diversity of passionate expression and whims.
MUSIC
Albums (CDs, Mp3s, Streams)
- CD 18: JUST RELEASED: NEW July 2022: Music Release #13 (Album 18): Simply Electric: (2022) Back to rock with lots of 70's hard rock influence through more modern and misc spice.
- CD 17, February 2022: Music Release #12 (Album 17): MAGIC : (2022)
- CD 16:
I'M NO AI: (2021)
- CD's 10-15, July 2020: Music Release #10:
Pure Pure Fractals 2: (2020)
A 17 hour, 100 track, 6 volume set of two-dimensional musical fractals with experiments in several genres and fusions.
- CD 9:
Beauty In Your Head: (2019)
Ecstatic dance compatible fluid mix of world, EDM, pop, rock, experimental, psychedelic, other.
- CD 8:
Pure Fractals: (2008)
Musical rendering of mega-self-similarity. A mind tickler.
- CD 7:
STRAD TO STRAT II: Electric Vivaldi: (2008)
Antonio Vivaldi's violin concertos (Harmonic Inspiration & La Stravaganza) performed on electric guitars.
- CD 6:
Balkan & Beyond/Live At Costello's: (2008) Balkan, Near and Middle Eastern dance music on acoustic guitar and percussion.
- CD 5:
Piano Concerto, Symphony & Sonata: (2008) All original classical genre compositions.
- CD 4:
RESTLESS RECKLESS & WILD: (2007)
A wide fusion of hard rock, punk, progressive, classical, world
(Balkan, Hindustani classical rag, etc.) and original music.
- CD 3:
SUBTLE HINT: (2006)
Progressive World, a wild genre mix including electric & acoustic guitar arrangements of classical, world
(Balkan, Hindustani classical rag, etc.) and original jazz, rock and other music.
- CD 2:
EXOTIC EXTREMES: (2000) Another first of its kind, again influencing many western musicians to study and perform more complex rhythms and exotic scales:
Gypsy, Balkan and Middle Eastern Music on other world music on electric & acoustic guitars.
- CD 1:
STRAD TO STRAT: (1995) First of its kind, sparking countless imitations around the globe:
Bach, Paganini, Vivaldi and other classical violin music performed on electric guitar.
Listen: LATEST YET TO BE OFFICIALLY RELEASED MUSIC:
Upcoming Shows
Music Projects
-
The Playback Theatre:
Kevin Ferguson directs music improv to accompany improv acting group that portrays stories told from audience members (including you, if you'd like)
- Recording for 2020...
Misc.
CULINARY CREATION BY DESIGN
- The Recipe Factory @
recipefactory.net: for more delicious, nutritious and affordable meals.
- Plant Science pertinent to understanding ingredients for cooking, including nutrition, flavor (taste, aroma, texture, etc.) and more.
- Eat More Plants: Video on why and how to introduce more plant species to our (human's) diet.
- Eat More Plants: An alternative source (.mpg = MPEG2).
INVENTIONS
PATENTS ISSUED:
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U.S. No. 5661527 ( 8/26/1997), Automatic Video Signal Identification
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U.S. No. 6678424 ( 1/13/2004), Realtime Human Vision System Behavioral Modeling
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U.S. No. 6690839 ( 2/10/2004), Efficient Predictor of Subjective Video Quality Rating Measures
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U.S. No. 6829005 (12/07/2004), Predicting Subjective Quality Ratings of Video
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U.S. No. 6907143 ( 6/14/2005), Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Filter for Human Vision System Models
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U.S. No. 6941017 ( 9/06/2005), Temporal Processing for Realtime Human Vision System Behavior Modeling
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U.S. No. 6944356 ( 9/13/2005), Locating Point of Interest in an Impaired Image
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U.S. No. 6954707 (10/11/2005), Multiple Sinusoidal Burst Frequency Measurements
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U.S. No. 6975774 (12/13/2005), Quantifying Perceptual Information and Entropy
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U.S. No. 6975776 (12/13/2005), Predicting Human Vision Perception and Perceptual Difference
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U.S. No. 6976045 (12/13/2005), Variable Sample Rate Recursive Digital Filter
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U.S. No. 7009538 ( 3/07/2006), High-Speed DAC Linearity Measurement
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U.S. No. 7069167 ( 6/27/2006), Frequency Response Measurement
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U.S. No. 7061920 ( 6/13/2006), Streaming Media Quality Analyzer System, which has become
- international standard
ITU-T J.242 A method to reconstruct the received video sequence seen at the receiver using transmission error information to monitor the perceptual video quality at the receiver in digital cable television and video telephony
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U.S. No. 7102667 (9/5/2006), Picture quality diagnostics for revealing cause of perceptible impairments
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U.S. No. 7180537 ( 2/20/2007), Relative Channel Delay Measurement
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U.S. No. 7405747 ( 7/29/2008), Extended K2T Measurement of Video
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U.S. No. 7406493 ( 7/29/2008), Up-Sampling Half-Band Reconstruction Filtering: Method of design and example design of reconstruction and resampling filtering using about one half of the resources (pole and zero equivalents, gates, MACs, cycles, etc.) of prior art.
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U.S. No. 7495688 ( 2/24/2009), Generating an MPEG Sequence for Multiple CAV Measurements
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U.S. No. 7584235 ( 9/1/2009), Variable Passband Autoregressive Moving Average Filter
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U.S. No. 7,778,315 (8/17/2010) Measuring Instantaneous Signal Dependent Nonlinear Distortion in Response to Varying Frequency Sinusoidal Test Signals
- U.S. No. 7,889,211 (2/15/2011) Measuring PSNR of Full Color Video
- U.S. No. 7,920,758 (4/5/2011) Measurement apparatus and method of measurement of video spatial scale, offset and cropping
- U.S. No. 7,978,933 (7/12/2011) Systems and methods for robust video temporal registration
- U.S. No. 7,995,149 (8/9/2011) Subjectively weighted noise measurement
- U.S. No. 8,036,485 (11/11/2011) Systems and methods for measuring loss of detail in a video codec block
- U.S. No. 8,184,163 (5/22/2012) Methods and systems for detecting and locating skipped frames in a video sequence
- U.S. No. 8,185,334 (5/22/2012) Methods and systems for filtering a digital signal (Method of Border Edge Spike and/or Speckle Filtering)
- U.S. No. 8,229,229 (7/24/2012) Systems and methods for predicting video location of attention focus probability trajectories due to distractions
- U.S. No. 8,294,770 (10/23/2012) Systems and methods for spatially isolated artifact dissection, classification and measurement
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U.S. No, 8,355,567 (1/15/2013) Method and apparatus for implementing moving image color appearance model for video quality ratings prediction
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U.S. No. 8,437,577 Methods and systems for image registration
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U.S. No. 8,768,020 Method of detecting visual stress and photosensitive epilepsy triggers in video and mitigation device
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U.S. No. 8,781,222 Method and apparatus for automatic illuminant compensation in video surveillance
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U.S. No. 8,917,932 Method of predicting perceptual differences between memory and directly viewed colors in video
- U.S. No. 9,336,596 System and methods to efficiently measure stereoscopic disparity and to generate related mismatch image
- U.S. No. 9,055,279 System for natural language assessment of relative color quality
- U.S. No. 8,963,998 Full reference system for predicting subjective quality of three-dimensional video
- U.S. No. 9,013,502 Method of viewing virtual display outputs
- U.S. No. 9,392,267 System and methods to measure noise and to generate picture quality prediction from source having no reference
- U.S. No. 9,736,400 Optical spectrometer with enhanced spectral resolution from an unregistered tristimulus detector
- U.S. No. 10,031,104 Mobile micro-lab for chemical analysis of fluids
- U.S. No. 10,931,891 Method for spectrogram image restoration
- U.S. No. 10,955,381 (Improved) Mobile micro-lab for chemical analysis of fluids
PATENTS PENDING:
MORE PATENT INFO
New Social Norms for Ecological Rescue:
Food + Medicinals: Sciences, Culinary Art:
Music Articles:
Human Vision
Philosopy and Politics
Writing Groups In Portland
Dance (Portland, OR Centric)
Misc. Events Around Portland, OR
Video (TV/Television) Streaming/Webcasting
Audio (Radio) Streaming/Webcasting
Molecular Biology
World Hunger and Related Resources
Ferguson (Surname)
Egg-Head Stuff
General Acedemic Scientific Searches
Earth
Space
Telecommunications Law
DSP
Mathematics
News
Weather
Other Cultures
Languages
- http://freetranslation.translation-services-usa.com/Irish/to-Hindi/
translates text among several languages using native scripts.
- http://scriptconv.googlelabs.com/
Converts scripts of various languages to Roman script transliteration (i.e., for pronounciation)
- bablfish.altavista.com translates web pages to and from
several European, Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages.
- bab.la language portal Also has many language to language dictionaries
- Spanish
to English Dictionary.
- English to Spanish Dictionary.
- German to/from English Dictionary.
- Bulgarian
to English Dictionary. (See
Russify Everything for setting up for Cyrillic,
Cyrillic coding types
for a test of your browser's Cyrillic encoding/translator and
Cyrillic Script
{Russian} for example hand written script .)
- Croatian/Serbian
to English Dictionary.
- A
large list of language to language dictionaries on line.
- A
large list of language to language dictionaries on line.
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International Hindi Association:
Has links to learn Hindi, for example:
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Hindi Lessons online, including Devanagari script and audio
clips of spoken Hindi. Good for those who are already familiar
with Devanagari script and a little Hindi.
- A
World Language Resources sells products for writing in other
languages and other alphabets, etc.
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Localisation in South Asia: A .pdf file with a good quick overview
of written and spoken languages South Asia including India, Pakistan,
Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Includes language and script families
including, for example, how Tamil, Hindi (Devanagari) and Kannada writing systems are all derived from Brahmi.
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Transparent Language's web site, offering low cost software for
learning language including "Languages of The World": A primer for
101 languages in one package for under $30.
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ONLINE LANGUAGE INFO
, many languages, links to online lessons, scripts, dictionaries, etc.
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www.easypersian.com
, one example among many languages, links to online lessons, scripts, dictionaries, etc.
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Google Directory: Language: Farsi
, one example among many languages, links to online lessons, scripts, dictionaries, etc.
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Writing Systems Of The World
, many languages, links to online scripts, etc.
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Video Links To Live TV from Around The World
, many languages, also includes
some links to radio and file based video.
Self Sufficiency
Save The World From Corpruption
How to produce more of what you consume:
- Some reasons:
Your Economic
Vote: Your Influence On Politics And The
Economy
-
New Crop Compendium lists information about a large number of
alternative food and medicinal plants.
- Revisiting Solar Power's Past
By Charles Smith From Technology Review, July 95: Solar Power.
- Usenet
discussion excerpts including producing your own food, energy and
the like.
- Agricultural
Clearinghouse includes Plant Genome Data, Food and Nutrition, Water
Quality, Alternative Fuels Data, and more. See Weeds of the
Southern United States (with pictures of wild species of
garlic, carrot, etc.) in conjunction with INDICATOR WEEDS to tell what
kind of soil you have.
- Medicines from what you grow (Herbal).
- Hemp used
to be a great source of paper, canvas, rope, oil, paint, varnish
and more (including food) before the timber industry had it taxed
and the petroleum industry had it outlawed and replaced with synthetics. (See petroleum
industry "applications as diverse as
pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, detergents {including soap you recently used to
bathe}, packaging, synthetic rubber,
lubricants, paints, coatings,
adhesives and sealants..." and fibers for clothes, rope, etc.,
candles, plastics in general, ect.). You support the petroleum
industry with each purchase of above items and more, and at the
same time, availability of non-petroleum based products becomes
endangered (for example, compare the availability of raw vs
"boiled" linseed oil for wood finishing).
- So Hemp without THC should do the trick...
- ...except for the politics involved: The Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy can add more to the general topic of agriculture and business.
Internet
Sources of General Information
-
duckduckgo.com
: direct web search without attempts at personalization, biasing results by calculations to try to estimate popularity, etc.
Historical
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Websearch
searches the search engines
-
Websearch
- FINDIT - Reference - Standards ANSI, ISO, etc.
- Research-It
has an online dictionary, thesaurus, language translator, biographical,
religion info, quotations search, maps within USA, currency converter,
stock market & other info.
- I like Infoseek because of its
contextual bias.
- 37 Search Engines stuffs the search field of several popular search engines for you.
- MegaSpider stuffs the search field of several popular search engines for you.
- Metasearch stuffs the search field of several popular search engines for you.
- Dejanews searches newsgroups and
helps you follow threads, etc across them.
- Lycos was Carnegie-Mellon's Internet search tool.
- Submit-it! Submit your web pages (to search engines, etc.).
- Access many search engines and/or register your own web pages at
FREE Web Site
Promotion Links
.
- NlightN has the 'largest single database in the world'.
- Search via the World Wide Web Worm
- List of Usenet FAQs
- List of Freenets
- List of Listservs
- Search All Electronic Newsstand Articles by Keyword via gopher
- Libraries on-line via gopher (Yale).
- Books & periodicals on-line via
The Internet Public Library.
- Library of Congress via http.
- Library of Congress via gopher. (Lists of published books, Copyright Information, More).
- Washington County Library System of Oregon (Wili/WILInet, chetiri broja za fon)
- Acedemic Research Journal Searches Via Washington County Library System of Oregon -> Magazine Articles -> Academic Search Premier (Wili/WILInet, chetiri broja za fon)
- Multnomah Library
(Login as "fastcat" and hit "Enter" or "Return" for Password)
via telnet
- Complaints about some well known providers
Misc. World Wide Web
Public Access Internet
United States Government Information
World
Publishers
Colleges & Universities
List of American Universities
Selected Colleges and Universities
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