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Log Point Technologies, Inc., a Colorado corporation, is a publicly held company (OTC BB: LGPT) founded in 1993 to develop and market high performance numerical processing products.
Log Point is the home of the SuperSpeedtm family of numerical software products, including the Soft CoProcessortm software efp mathematical function libraries for embedded applications. Log
Mission Statement
"Log Point intends to become a dominant company in embedded computation by making high performance exponential floating point an industry standard."
Key Personnel
Dr. Samuel Shanks, President and CEO
Mr. Lester Pickett, Chairman, Executive Vice President, and Chief Technical Officer
SAMUEL P. SHANKS President and CEO
Dr. Shanks earned B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science from Mississippi State University (MSU) from 1965 through 1977. Dr. Shanks has over 30 years experience in computational fluid dynamics and has made many substantial advances to the state of the art in that field. Dr. Shanks has published numerous technical papers and given many presentations at technical conferences.
In 1985, Dr. Shanks received the highest award given at NASA/Ames for research, the H. Julian Allen award, for his work on redesign of the space shuttle main engine. From 1989 to 1993, Dr. Shanks was the president of JAI Associates, Inc., a firm that performs government contracted numerical research. Dr. Shanks resigned the presidency of JAI in 1993 to participate in founding Log Point.
Dr. Shanks worked as a graduate research assistant under Dr. Joe Thompson at MSU. Dr. Shanks developed an integro-differential formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations and a numerical method for the solution of flows about arbitrary shaped hydrofoils submerged below a free surface. This work involved time-dependent coordinate systems. Dr. Shanks joined General Dynamics in 1977, where he worked in the area of transonic/supersonic computational methods. This work included the development of 3-D methods for store loads prediction and inlet flow calculations.
Dr. Shanks joined Flow Simulations, Inc. in 1980, where he worked in the area of supersonic/hypersonic Parabolized Navier-Stokes (PNS) computational methods. The PNS codes were applied to complex reentry vehicles such as the Air Force X-24C vehicle and the space shuttle. The PNS code, with substantial changes in the last 5 years, is one of the Air Force's standard codes to analyze reentry vehicles. Dr. Shanks joined the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell International where he worked on the redesign of the space shuttle main engine (SSME). The work was given a high priority and received high visibility in that company and nationally. The resulting code, in various versions, is the INS3D code used throughout NASA.
Dr. Shanks joined JAI Associates, Inc. in 1987 and was president of JAI from 1989 to 1993. Dr. Shanks developed a powered missile separation Navier-Stokes code for missile launches from realistic aircraft configurations. As president of JAI, Dr. Shanks was involved in all areas of administration, management, sales, and planning. Dr. Shanks has published numerous technical papers and given many presentations at technical conferences. Since the middle of 1992, Dr. Shanks participated in the formation of Log Point Technologies, including involvement with writing the business plan and promotional material, developing products, and contacting investors and customers.
LESTER C. PICKETT Chairman, Exec. Vice-President, and Chief Technical Officer
Mr. Pickett earned a Physics B.A. degree from Friends University in Wichita and studied postgraduate physics and applied mathematics for one year at the University of Kansas. Mr. Pickett received the B.F. Goodrich Physics Award as outstanding physics student and was elected to national physics honorary Sigma Pi Sigma. Mr. Pickett has more than 30years engineering experience, including more than 20 years as an independent engineer consulting to numerous California manufacturing companies in developing new electronic products.
Mr. Pickett has worked successfully in quite varied technical areas. Early on, these areas included analog simulation of structures, numerical investigation of laminar-to-turbulent transition in fluid flow as well as unrelated aspects of aircraft propulsion and aircraft handling qualities. Mr. Pickett developed algorithms for radar tracking in an AWACS environment and was co-inventor of a Radar Tracking Algorithm patent application filed by Douglas Aircraft (McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing). Mr. Pickett was Project Leader in developing a library of scientific function subprograms for a Fortran compiler for Texas Instruments' large scale Advanced Scientific Computer. As an independent consulting engineer, Mr. Pickett was engaged in numerous varied assignments that included multi-valued logic simulation of large sequential digital logic circuits, disk memory thermal analysis, and algorithm development and machine level programming for many real-time microprocessor-based product systems. A few examples of such systems are: (1) cabin pressure controllers built by Garrett AiResearch for various commercial aircraft, including the Boeing 767 and General Aviation's Sabreliner; (2) a microprogrammed control system for a rocket- powered laser; (3) a numerical control system for a surface grinder; (4) a helicopter flight profile optimizer; and (5) controllers for a variety of microwave dish antennas, ranging from fast small radar jammer units to the 36-meter diameter installations for NASA's Deep Space Network. Mr.
Pickett is the inventor of the ultra high performance function generators and other central elements of a new type of processor for performing exponential floating point computation at high speed in various hardware technologies as well as pure software. Mr. Pickett has also shown in detail how to construct a complete floating point computing environment based on such a processor.
Mr. Pickett holds two applicable patents that issued February 1993 and March 1993, a third that issued in October 1994 and several pending international patents. Mr. Pickett holds many issued and pending patents, all substantial rights of which have been assigned to Log Point Technologies, Inc. These issued and pending patents are central to the Log Point technologies. Mr. Pickett has been involved for more than a decade in development of the relevant technology and in the formation of Log Point Technologies, Inc., including involvement with writing the business plan and promotional materials, developing products, and contacting investors and customers. |
