(Here's me in my office)

Bill Davis Information Worker Computer Systems Division Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory MS 31 PO BOX 451 Princeton , NJ 08543-0451 Phone: 609-243-2546 FAX: 609-243-3086 e-mail: bdavis (@pppl.gov)

Current responsibilities

The Computer Systems Division (CSD) is responsible for operation, systems support, software and hardware development and long range planning for scientific and engineering computing at PPPL.

My current responsibilities include:

• Writing application's software for NSTX at PPPL.
  
• Developing Web Tools for NSTX.
  
• Supporting the Interactive Data Language (IDL) at PPPL.
  (Here a list of my favorite IDL sites.)
• Working on MINDS

My responsibilities in the not-too-distant past have included:

• Helping General Atomics with their software effort.
• Leading the effort to design and build the IPPEX Web site
• Facilitating the procurement, systems work, and the TFTR-critical uses of PPPL VMS Computers.
• Managing the UNIX systems that PPPL is using to develop and test computer-based video conferencing, using the MBONE .
• Helping people develop computer animations of scientific data.

(Here is an old resume )

Personal Information:

• Born: Des Moines, Iowa
• Married to Debbie
• 3 sons, born '82, '86 and '89.

Favorites:

• Computer: My HP laptop
• Guitar: my beat up old Martin
• Sports: soccer
• Educational web site: IPPEX

Recent Publications:

• A Software Event Summation System for MDSplus presented at the 6th IAEA Technical Meeting on Control, Data Acquisition and Remote Participation for Fusion Research (Inuyama, Japan, 4-8 June 2007), and to be published in Fusion Engineering and Design. ( Oral Presentation and Poster version)
• Storage and analysis techniques for fast 2-D camera data on NSTX presented at the 5th IAEA Technical Meeting on Control, Data Acquisition and Remote Participation for Fusion Research (Budapest, July 12-15, 2005), and to be published in Fusion Engineering and Design.
• DbAccess: Interactive statistics and graphics for plasma physics databases Fusion Eng. Des. 71 (2004), 183-188.
• Web interfaces to MDSplus Data, Proc. of 19th IEEE/NPS Symposium on Fusion. Eng. (2002), 176-179.
• The Use of MDSplus on NSTX at PPPL, Fusion Eng. Des. 60 (2002), 247-251.

updated: 6-Sep-2007
by: Bill Davis