Bertrand du Castel explained

Bertrand du Castel
Birth Date:8 February 1952
Birth Place:France
Nationality:French, American
Field:Computer science
Work Institutions:Schlumberger
Prizes:Visionary Award (2005)

Bertrand du Castel is a French-American author and scientist who won in 2005 the Visionary Award[1] from Card Technology Magazine for pioneering the Java Card, which by 2007 had sold more than 3.5 billionunits worldwide.[2] In 2008, du Castel and Timothy M. Jurgensen published Computer Theology: Intelligent Design of the World Wide Web, a theology of the World Wide Web based on a comparative study of human societies and computer networks.

Biography

Du Castel was born in 1952 in France a descendant of Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, who governed France as Prime Minister before being defeated by Napoléon III, and Paul Dubois, whose Joan of Arc sculpture stands in Washington D.C. A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique with a 1977 PhD from the University of Paris in Theoretical Computer Science, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the IBM France Research Center before hiring with Schlumberger in France in 1978. He emigrated to the United States in 1983 where he has lived in Austin, Texas since, becoming an American citizen in 1994.

In 2000, du Castel was invited by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence tomake a presentation of artificial intelligence advances in the industry that were original to academia. Consequently, du Castel was invited to present at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2001),[3] Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001),[4] University of Texas at Austin (2002),[5] Peking University (2002),[6] Tsinghua University (2002),[7] Purdue University (2002),[8] Grenoble Institute of Technology (2003),[9] University of Paris (2004)[10] and University of Hamburg (2004),[11] which increasingly constituted the matter of a book on the relationship between religion and digital networks.

In 2005[12] du Castel joined with Timothy M. Jurgensen, author of two books on computer security,[13] [14] to write Computer Theology: Intelligent Design of the World Wide Web, which uses theological principles to study the role of religion in computer networks, and reciprocally studies religion in the light of well-established computer concepts such as trust. The book eventually proposed in 2008 a reference for the field of Computer Theology, following the road traced earlier by Donald Knuth[15] [16] and Anne Foerst,[17] aiming at a better understanding of computer evolution as well as religion.

Positions

Publications

Book

Main publications in neuroscience, computer security, logic, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and linguistics:

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Dan Balaban . May 2005 . Keeping An Eye On The Future . Card Technology . 10 . 5 . 30–38 . SourceMedia . CT.
  2. Business Wire . April 22, 2008 . Sun Microsystems and Java Card Forum Announce Next Generation of Industry Leading Java Card Technology .
  3. Death of the Washing Machine. Invited, AetherSystems Distinguished Lecture Series in Mobile and Wireless Systems. Bertrand. du Castel. Baltimore, MD. University of Maryland, Baltimore County. February 9, 2001.
  4. Death of the Washing Machine. Invited, Engineering and Environmental Mechanics Seminar Series. Bertrand. du Castel. Cambridge, MA. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. February 2001.
  5. A Theology of Smart Cards. Invited, Technology Leaders Lecture Series. Bertrand. du Castel. Austin, Texas. University of Texas at Austin. February 2002.
  6. Darwin's 600 Million Smart Cards. Invited. Bertrand. du Castel. Beijing, China. Peking University. April 2002.
  7. Darwin's 600 Million Smart Cards. Invited. Bertrand. du Castel. Beijing, China. Tsinghua University. April 2002.
  8. A Theology of Smart Cards. Invited, ECE Graduate Seminar Series. Bertrand. du Castel. West Lafayette, Indiana. Purdue University. August 2002.
  9. A Theology of Smart Cards. Invited. Bertrand. du Castel. Grenoble, France. Grenoble Institute of Technology. May 2003.
  10. Smart Cards are Pots. Invited, DNAC. Bertrand. du Castel. Paris, France. University of Paris. October 2004.
  11. Intellectual Foundations of Smart Card Services (Smart Cards in Love). Invited, University of Hamburg Oberseminar. Bertrand. du Castel. Hamburg, Germany. University of Hamburg. November 2004.
  12. Acknowledgments of Computer Theology: Intelligent Design of the World Wide Web
  13. Book: Guthery , Scott, B. . Smart Card Developer's Kit. Jurgensen, Timothy M.. 1998. Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. 978-0-13-093730-8.
  14. Book: Jurgensen , Timothy M. . Smart Cards: the Developer's Toolkit. Guthery, Scott B.. 2002. Macmillan Technical Publishing. Indianapolis, Indiana. 1-57870-027-2. registration.
  15. Book: Knuth , Donald E. . 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated. 1990. A-R Editions. Madison, Wisconsin. 0-89579-252-4.
  16. Book: Knuth , Donald E. . Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About. 2001. CSLI Publications. Stanford, California. 1-57586-326-X.
  17. Book: Foerst , Anne . God in the Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity and God. 2004. Dutton. New York, New York. 0-525-94766-3.
  18. Business Wire . March 31, 2004 . WLAN Smart Card Consortium Leads the Industry to Replace Weak Username/Password With Proven SIM Based Technology for Hot Spots .

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