Bryan Bentz 's Homepage

Professional Activities

My company is Bentz Engineering. We do software engineering with an emphasis on artificial intelligence, good user interface design, database systems, data mining/machine learning, and 3D visualization. Applied physics work has included building in-air acoustic arrays and doing thermodynamic modeling of older buildings.

Activities

Lord's Point Association board member
Climate Adaptation Solutions - board member
Stonington Board of Finance member again, 2022-present. (Westerly Sun article).
Justice of the Peace (Connecticut)

Former:

MIT Educational Councilor (interviewing prospective MIT students)
Stonington Republican Town Committee (Chairman 2016-2020)
Stonington Board of Finance 1998-2017 (Chairman last several years)
Quiambaug Fire Department (Volunteer firefighter, ~10 years)
Stonington Historical Society (Board Member, Treasurer)
Collie Rescue League of New England (member/ director)
Banshee sailboat National Class President
Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution ( Senior Vice President, Samuel Huntington branch)
MIT Technology Hackers Association founder (1980)

Education

Stonington High School Class of 1977
MIT Physics degree, 1980
MIT EECS (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science) degree, 1982
University of Connecticut Ph.D program in AI (ABD)

Employment

Mystic Seaport Museum - volunteer & interpreter, primarily shipsmith shop (circa 1977)
Harvey Hubbell Kellems Division - machine shop
Analysis & Technology - submarine tactics development
Bolt Beranek & Newman - Applied physics and artificial intelligence - novel submarine tracking, structural acoustics, natural language recognition
Kurzweil Applied Intelligence - managing advanced research group doing speech recognition and computer control
Bentz Engineering - applied physics, AI, database, and software consulting and development. TS clearance.

Memberships

Interests

Artificial Intelligence, particularly computational approaches to self-awareness & qualia aspects of consciousness;
(Very) local history: the Quiambaug/Mistuxet Valley
Naval & maritime history, from ancient to modern, including shipwrecks, mysteries of the sea, and underwater archaeology;
Cooking - I maintain a personal collection of recipes which I often give to friends. You can grab it as a Microsoft Word document: cookbook.doc.
Sailing; small boats have included Lightnings, Jet 14's, Banshees, JY 15's, Beetle Cats.
Archaeology & ancient history (primarily Greek/Roman); related remote sensing technologies.
Algonquian languages (particularly Mohegan and Pequot) of the Algic family; here's a related paper I did for a local group: [Ariston talk]
Travel , food, theatre.
BZFlag virtual world design
Genealogy: Bentz; also: Blew, Bushy, Cassidy, Davis, Dionne, Ely, Gentzler, Groff, Hall, Hersche, Hershey, Knickerbocker, Lau, Law, O'Hara, Shetter, Siebrecht, Strayer, Swain, Swope, Ticknor, Turk - and quite a few others. See my Bentz pages for specific data on many of these other families as well. Some current mysteries are on a page here.
Gardening (largely to support the cooking).

My Pages On This Site
Ideas	Some ideas and musings for your consideration and amusement.
Blog	Infrequent writings on a variety of topics
Bentz genealogy	Pages relating to the Bentz and associated families.
Banshee sailboat	The Banshee Class National Association web page.

Pages Elsewhere You Might Like
Technology Review article on T.H.A.	Worth a glance if you've never heard of it.
WIRED article on MIT hacking	An article in which I make a brief appearance with my name misspelled.
Gallery of MIT hacks	The M. I. T. Museum's hacking pages.
The Caltech cannon hack	A bit about the Howe & Ser Moving Company.

Contact Information

I've dropped the "mailto:" tags because of the volume of spam that results from people scraping them from web pages. However, my email addresses are: