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Biographical Information
Pete is an applied physicist working in a variety of fields including theater
ballistic missile test & evaluation, acoustics, virtual reality and
computer simulation. His academic background includes an M.S. in Physics
from Arizona State University, B.S. in Physics from Benedictine U. and
a stint as adjunct professor at Old Dominion University. Pete is currently
a technical fellow with Northrop Grumman in Arlington, Virginia. He enjoys
spending time with his lovely, talented wife Jane, dynamic duo son and
daughter-in-law Scott and Cheryl and art major, college soccer playing
daughter Dawn. His extracurricular activities include being an active square
dance caller and rapping with friends on the IRC #50+ channels. For more
information on his professional background refer to his resume.
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Work Information
MDNTS
CP5
1421 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, Virginia 22202
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Personal Interests
Square Dance Caller
Outside interests include being an active modern western square dance
caller in the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Calling repertoire
ranges from one night stand "fun" dances up to the plus level. Credentials
include membership in Callerlab (international society of square dance
callers) and serving two years as president of the National Capital Area
Square Dance Leaders Association.
Click here to download a sample "wav" of his
calling style (windows wav sound, 386 kB).
Stockmarket Analysis
Has the honor of being the publisher of the only stockmarket advice
newsletter that never made a bad prediction. Unfortunately, plans changed
and no issues were ever produced.
A heavy proponent of applying neural network techniques for market timing.
Currently applies both supervised and unsupervised neural nets for predicting
intermediate market moves. Current advice is to "buy low and sell high".
Pete's "investment" career includes a four year stint as chairman of
the Washington Apple Pi computer market analysis special interest group.
He has lectured on the use of computers in investing and is an occasional
poster to the misc.invest.technical. internet news group.
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Knights of Columbus
Member of the Family of Man Council at St. John Neuman parish in Reston,
Virginia. Past stint as Warden and currently holds position of council
Advocate.
Current Projects
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Theater Ballistic Missile Test & Evaluation
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How do you find out if a theater ballistic missile is performing
the way the designers intended? Current projects in this area include performing
a dynamic stability analysis of a target missile launch platform, investigating
new ways to instrument target missiles to measure miss distance, evaluating
the capabilities of missile/test-range radar and telemetry capabilities,
assessing the capabilities of missile test ranges and modeling the noise
and shock environment associated with launching missiles from a floating
platform.
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Virtual Reality
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How do surgeons learn their skills. Currently adapting the technology of
virtual reality to produce an environment which helps medical students
develop experience in specialized surgical techniques. Among the unique
features is the application of the technology to be applied over the Internet.
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Acoustics
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Recent noise analysis projects include modeling the airborne and underwater
radiated noise signatures of the latest U.S. Navy mine warships. Current
projects include developing the noise control design of the Avondale Industries
Inc. Sealift ship and ARCO oil tanker construction programs.
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Contact Information
Electronic mail addresses
office peter.k.kasper@mdnt.com
home pkasper@erols.com
Telephone
Office Voice 703-414-6857
Home 703-620-4071
Thought for the week
Help stop continental drift.
Copyright 1998 by Peter K. Kasper
Last revised: 14Jun04.