Richard Mammone

Key takeaways

Richard Mammone belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Richard Mammone to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Richard Mammone from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Richard J. Mammone (born 1953, New York) is an American engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and professor. As an inventor, he holds over 15 patents. To date, he has formed four technology companies including SpeakEZ, a firm that specialized in voice recognition technology, and Computed Anatomy Inc., the business that pioneered LASIK eye surgery.

Early life Mammone attended City College of New York where he earned a B.E.E.E and M.E.E.E in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1975 and 1977, respectively. He earned a PhD from City University of New York in 1981. He has been a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University since 1982, later earning a joint appointment as a Rutgers Business School professor, and was awarded the Henry Rutgers Faculty Fellowship in 1985, 1986, and 1987. Mammone was a recipient of the Samuel Rudin Scholarship of Society of American Military Engineers. His academic interests lie in signal processing and computational pattern recognition. Over the last 20 years, Mammone published over 140 journal and conference papers in the areas of Neural Networks and Signal Processing. He also published four books and invited papers and talks on these topics. He is a founding member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) on Neural Networks and was Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has been a consultant to numerous government agencies and corporations.

Career Mammone's research interests lie in computational pattern recognition and signal processing. He performed research on Neural networks and signal processing, generating over 15 patents and producing 150 published papers. Mammone started high-tech companies and serves as consultant to government agencies and industry. As an entrepreneur, his interests lie in the processes involved in creating technology products. In supply chain management, Mammone advocates developing product platforms that can be designed within an existing product’s value chain. Groundbreaking corneal mapping technology catalyzed his second venture, Computed Anatomy Inc. The firm was first to develop, manufacture and sell computer aided surgery tools for corneal surgery commonly referred to today as LASIK surgery. His software is still used for laser eye surgical procedures. Computed Anatomy was sold in 1986 to a Japanese manufacturer of ophthalmic tools. In 1992, Mammone founded SpeakEZ Inc., a provider of biometric security systems. The company brought innovative speech recognition technology to market that revolutionized the world of voice activated security systems and voice recognition applications. In 1994, it was sold to T-Netix (NASDAQ: TNTX), a publicly traded telecommunications company. During his three-year tenure, Mammone rolled out and managed several successful products. At the height of the dot com era in 2000, Mammone launched The mBook Company. The company developed new media alternatives for textbooks and trade books using technology. Although the firm disbanded in 2001 due to investment related issues, it made strides in developing an interactive e-learning platform at a time when high bandwidth video over the internet was unavailable, garnering support from Cisco and other strategic partners. Currently, Mammone serves as the liaison between Rutgers University and Industry by coordinating networking events, web sites and projects that combine business and technology interests. He directs the CAIP center which provides Cyber infrastructure platforms for academic and nonprofit institutions. Mammone's current interests lie in fostering an ecosystem of innovation and new venture development. To that end, he served as the Director of the Business, Engineering, Science, and Technology (BEST) Institute which focuses on starting new companies based on university intellectual property. He is a contributor to Business Week, featuring articles that speak to the challenges faced by entrepreneurs. He is currently involved in launching a start-up, myPowerMap LLC, a firm that specializes in developing home energy consumption monitoring technology.

References

External links The mBook Company on YouTube myPowerMap LLC Patents held by Richard Mammone "Where to find a Multi-million Dollar Business Idea" BusinessWeek article "Humility and the Successful Startup" BusinessWeek article "How to Take Advantage of Business Clusters" BusinessWeek article "Innovation is a Better Way to Compete" BusinessWeek article

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Richard Mammone

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Richard Mammone claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Richard Mammone before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Richard Mammone ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Richard Mammone

In research: Richard Mammone appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Richard Mammone in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Richard Mammone is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1953 births, 21st-century American engineers, American inventors, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Richard Mammone outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

How to study Richard Mammone in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Richard Mammone means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Richard Mammone out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Richard Mammone in simple terms?

Richard J. Mammone (born 1953, New York) is an American engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and professor.

Why does Richard Mammone matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Richard Mammone?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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