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David Dantowitz's Resume
      Developing software for a while, at Apple since 2019!

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July 2011: A Fast String Match Algorithm
      Developed a fuzzy string match algorithm with the same results as Damerau-Levenshtein, but faster. The graph below shows the results of searching the complete works of William Shakespeare (1, 5, 10, 50, and 100 copies) with 5 randomly selected words (from the work) of lengths 7 to 10 characters with a limit distance of 2.
Speed Up Fast Match vs Damerau-Levenshtein
ZipBurst.com
         Designed and developed a self-contained full stack environment, front to back, from scratch in C. The project included a multi-threaded, MVCC, NoSQL Database with location-based components. Licensed by Apple 2001-2011 (used on their website and internally) and by other clients to create simple and complex REST apps. IP ownership maintained.

The Apache-Apple Event Bridge (aaeb.net)
      Enables Apache to call AppleScripts and apps via the CGI Request Apple Event (2009)


Create a simple language and parser to implement a security filter (2016)
      Add permissions to an existing legacy app


Macworld, 2002: ZipBurst Press Release
      ZipBurst performs multi-threaded data and location-based searches of your flat or relational database files


MillburnMac.com
      Consulting for Apple Products since 1989.
      One to One consumer consulting.

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A Multi-threaded Simulation Engine for a Shared Memory Parallel Super Computer
         Developed an environment similar to MPI from scratch: a multi-threaded, multi-cpu, NUMA Aware, simulation engine for use on a Shared Memory Parallel Super Computer using event driven simulation and minimal synchronization barriers.


A Pinball game for MTV (1999)
      Wrote a pinball physics engine from scratch

     
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Shockwave Site Of The Week: AT&T's 1996 Olympic Games Website
      Developed for Modem Media


High Performance Code for CRCs (1986)
              A developer posted incorrect code for computing CRCs, so I correct their bug, cited reference material, included a mini-tutorial, and wrote a routine that ran 8 times faster. Uses inline assembler code.

Over the years this work was used by professors, developers, and researchers. One such credit was "The Virus Intervention & Control Experiment" by Molini & Ruhl, (13th National Computer Security Conference, 1990) dealing with reducing the impact of PC Viruses at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Great to know my contribution had plenty of uses and amusing to discover segments of my writing quoted from the source code and credited.

Assembler Language: Bresenham's algorithm for line drawing (1986)
      High Performance, Optimized and Commented








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