Bio For Owen Densmore

Owen Densmore has over 30 years experience in the computer industry, having worked with three of the industry's key companies: Xerox, Apple, and Sun Microsystems. His work includes language systems, networked multimedia, Apple's Mac and Lisa hardware and software, Java nomadics, an innovative PostScript based window system, the Java Car, the Macintosh Printing Architecture, VLSI design, Radio Frequency ID systems, and embedded Java devices. He served four years as the Chief Scientist for both Sun's Information Technology division and their Merger's and Acquisition team, and spent his last 3 years at Sun integrating methods of Complex Adaptive Systems into Sun's research and product divisions. Since retiring from Sun he has started an applied complexity site, Complexity Workshop, with a suite of tutorials, O'Reilly web logs, and research in Supply Chain Management, Multi-Agent Simulation, and Modern Optimization Techniques.

Owen holds 6 patents in computing areas. He earned his Bachelors Degree in Math and Physics from Georgia Tech in 1964, spent two years in Africa with the Peace Corps, and earned his Masters in Physics from Syracuse University in 1968.