Personal Details

Born	Living - Suppressed	ca. July/97
Birthplace	Living - Suppressed
Baptized	Living - Suppressed
Baptized at...	No Entry
Baptized by...	No Entry
Baptized in...	No Entry
Occupation(s)	AI researcher, electronic design engineer, software engineer, musician, entrepreneur, instructor martial arts, author, genealogist
Died	Living - Suppressed
Died at...	No Entry
Cause of Death	No Entry
Burial Place	No Entry
Disposition	No Entry

Parents

Father	[1380I]	James Benjamin Blish, B.Sc., Ed. (***) 10
Mother	[1380I_sa]	Mildred "VK" Virginia (Kidd) Blish 10

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [1402B_sa] - Bessie Magdeline (Haldezous) Blish 11 Married by: No Entry Married at: Milford, county of Pike, PA, USA Children by this spouse: No Records of Children
Wife #2 [redacted]	[redacted]
Wife #3 [1402B_sc] - Dr. Anne Michelle Williams, M.D., F.A.C.S., BaSc (Chemistry) 11 Married by: No Entry Married at: Glasgow, county of Valley, MT, USA Children by this spouse: No Records of Children
Wife #3 [1402B_sd] - Deborah Louise (Kirkpatrick) Gregory 11 Married by: Common Law Married at: Glasgow, county of Valley, MT, USA Children by this mate: No Records of Children

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 11	Gen. 10	Gen. 9	Gen. 8	Gen. 7
Charles Benjamin Blish	James Benjamin Blish, B.Sc., Ed. (***)	Asa Rhodes Blish, (***)	James Knox Blish, (***)	Charles Cheney Blish, (***)
				Elizabeth Potter (Bonar) Blish
			Amy Mason (Rhodes) Blish	Albert Rhodes
				Ann Elizabeth (Read) Rhodes
		Dorothea (Schneewind) Blish	Benjamin, von Schneewind	Ferdinand, von Schneewind
				Babesh "Babette" (?), von Schneewind
			Lucie Obedine (Wickham) Schneewind	Thomas Gregory Wickham
				Harriet (Lacey) Wickham
	Mildred "VK" Virginia (Kidd) Blish	Charles Lemuel Kidd, Sr.	? Kidd	No Entry
				No Entry
			? (?) Kidd	No Entry
				No Entry
		Zetta Daisy (Whorley) Kidd	Eugene Alexander Whorley	Franklin "Frank" W. Whorley
				Mary E. (Compton) Whorley
			Anna "Daisy" D. (Board) Whorley	Captain James Garland Board
				Ann "Little Grandma" Mahala (Bond) Board

Personalized History Timeline
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Additional Information

Design summary Hardware: 68705 single-chip EPROM-based CPU programmer AD16 16-channel analog-to-digital card (with Dean Brown) AD/DA 1-channel analog-to-digital and digital-to analog SS-30 card AVT (I was awarded National Technical Achievement of the Year for this) Centuri 6809-based game hardware (integrated microprocessor, graphics and sound) Cornerturner graphics accelerator (with Dean Brown) CMJ-TU terminal unit for digital radio AFSK communications mode encoding/decoding CMJ-IF interface card for Radio Shack "Color Computer" Gated noise reduction for click and pop removal from LP's HAM-E compressed high color video device (with Greg Tibbs) for Amiga Heart monitor device Intelligent bottlecap for liquor dispensing Mixmaster guitar mixer PMS - Passive Microwave Security tags for clothing Pirate radio station Softpanel status display device (with Dean Brown) Sound Card SS-30 Sony/MCI auto-ranging harmonic distortion device Techstar computer game hardware (integrated microprocessor, graphics and sound) VIA card SS-30 - multifunction interface card Software: 6805 Cross-assembler for Amiga ApAssist hypertext documentation system (with Pete Patterson's assistance) AVT 1-5 - Images over radio by analog transmission Baudot driver for SC/MP Cards-n-Quiz - commercial arcade game CMJ-TU device (Magnum) Images over radio by analog transmission CNC - machine tool controller CoComm - telecommunications Code generators for product registration Crits - Artificial life Crypt - Encryption Diagnostic Cardiac Monitor - commercial software Flex for Amiga - 6809 MPU and operating System emulation Flex for Win95,98,XP - 6809 MPU and operating System emulation FM front end design "SuperTuner" FT9600 driver for Amiga - Radio driver Soroc emulation for Win95 - Terminal emulation Heathkit scope driver for Amiga - Tool driver HTML linkage analysis tool Image compression - image processing Inertial and infra-red tracking software for missiles - military application IP/IM (with Barry Chalmers) - Image Processing It - Commercial arcade game iToolBox - image processing Jakeboard - Handicapped empowerment for keyboard Landscape rendering software (3d/shadows/lighting/textures) Missile Command - non-commercial arcade replicant Macro() - HTML and text processing layer Morphing - image processing Morse code practice software Notebook (with Pete Patterson) - PIM Packet Bulletin board - networking PCLO/Boardmaster - computer aided design Poker/Blackjack/Slot/Dice - commercial arcade/bar game Quizzard - commercial arcade/bar game Regpaint (with Barry Chalmers) - image processing Rockball - commercial arcade game Scheme - computer aided design SdrDx - Software Defined Radio Softpanel drivers - display and utility Sounds for Solar Fox / Satan's Hollow - commercial arcade Spacecraft multi-computer synchronization - government Spectral colorspace software - image processing Talkboard - Handicapped empowerment for speech Telerad - Tele-Radiology system Tree-based text decomposition and recoding - compression View-Edit - image processing View-II - signal processing Other engineering career accomplishments include: Technical achievement of the year award Image processing software awards Product of the year award nominations Many technical magazine articles A regular technical magazine column Taught microprocessor theory at Centuri Trained technicians at Logical Devices Amateur radio extra-class license Federal Communications Commission engineering license IEEE member