Brief Bio of Ronald Joe Record
Ronald Joe Record worked for The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) for over 25 years. In 2001 he was purchased
by Caldera Systems as part of Caldera's acquisition of the server software division of SCO. In 2002 Caldera changed
its name back to SCO.
After leaving SCO, Dr. Record built a successful business in Second Life creating and selling a variety of scripted
objects including autonomous avatars that served as greeters, dancers, guides, agents, and sex robots. These smart
avatars could query both Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha making them among the smartest AI avatars in the world.
Resuming his life as a hired gun in 2012, Ronnie accepted employment at VMware in Palo Alto. Working from home in
Santa Cruz he was able to pioneer VMware's efforts in automated remediation, applications in health services,
management and security of the Internet of Things, and automated SAP Landscape deployment and maintenance.
Currently Dr. Record is the Founder and Chief Scientist at the Institute for Applied Sensibility (IAS) headquartered
in Santa Cruz, California. The IAS is researching distributed applications leveraging blockchain technology and
smart contracts. IAS is funded by mining cryptocurrency.
Record holds a Ph.D.
in Mathematics from the
University of California.
Accomplishments:
- SCO/Caldera Employee of the Year, 2000
- Lead technical architect for SCO Linux
- Operating system build and distribution architect (Xenix & Unix System V)
- Designed and created packaging and installation software for SCO systems
- Designed and implemented world-wide source control system deployed by SCO
- Developed a wide range of Open Source
mathematical and scientific software
- Invented, designed and implemented the SCO Webtop
- Technical lead and architect of
SCO Skunkware, a set of free CD-ROMs containing several hundred
Open Source components ported and packaged for SCO platforms
- Single-handedly produced the Supplemental Open Source CD
included in OpenLinux 3.1 and Open UNIX 8.
- Became the subject of
a Groklaw posting
Publications:
- The Method of Critical Curves
For Discrete Dynamical Systems In Two Dimensions, Ph.D. Thesis, 1994
- Gardini, L., R. H. Abraham, R. J. Record, D. Fournier-Prunaret, [1994]
"A Double Logistic Map",
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 4, No. 1, 145-176.
- Abraham, R. H., G. Chichilnisky, R. J. Record, [1994]
"Dynamics of North-South Trade and the Environment",
Environmental Economics, Graciela Chichilnisky,
ed., Mattei Foundation, Milan
- Co-author "Chaos in Discrete Dynamical Systems:
A Visual Introduction in 2 Dimensions",
(May, 1997) Telos/Springer-Verlag
- Author of
"Just Plane Chaos" teaching guide CD-ROM
- Co-author and presenter of
a paper on Linux emulation at 1998 Summer USENIX
- Author of
"SCO and the Open Source Movement" SCO World article,
Jan/Feb/Mar 1999 - Volume 6 - Number 1
- Author of
"Porting Open Source Software to SCO" SCO World article,
November/December 1999 - Volume 6 - Number 6
Presentations:
-
LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, 1999
(panel with Jordan Hubbard, Bruce Perens, Ronald Record, Eric Raymond,
Adam Richter and Michael Tiemann moderated by Rich Morin)
-
Open Source and SCO,
SCO Forum 1998
-
Apache Web Server on SCO,
SCO Forum 1999
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Non-stop Open Source E-commerce Pack,
SCO Forum 2000
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Open Source Components in SCO UNIX,
SCO Forum 2004
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Securing an Edge of Network Server,
SCO Forum 2004
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Using SCO-Provided Development and Programming Tools,
SCO Forum 2007
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Closing Remarks, general session - SCO Forum 2007