Mukesh Prasad

Software Consultant

Fields of Expertise (partial list)

Java Technologies (JSP, EJB, JMS, Swing, JDBC), C#, C++, Internet, Windows, Unix.

List (Partial) of Companies Consulted For

Xerox, Polaroid, Motorola, Compaq (Digital Equipment Corporation), Travelers, AMS

List (Partial) of Products worked at

Blazix, Winductor, PluginMaker, FixNews, EZ JCom, DEC Vax/GKS, GNU Emacs

Selected Software Projects


My Product Website desisoft.com for Internet, Java and Windows tools
EZ JCom	Tool for accessing COM (ActiveX) objects from Java.
Blazix	Blazix Java Application Server. Servlet, JSP, EJB technologies.
Winductor	Windows scripting language
MS-DOS
Meta Mind Clu`	Programming Language	Designed and implemented the language compiler for MS-DOS
Unix
yshell	First command-line editing version of cshell.	Developed while a graduate student at Yale. Same feature was later provided in other Unix shells, and is currently in widespread usage.
Unix /dev/pty concept	Concept used today in remote login and Windowing on Unix systems.	Conceptualized /dev/pty and the flow of Unix user authentication and shell creation using /dev/pty. Provided initial prototype implementation for the device driver and the associated login mechanism.
Other contributions
GNU Emacs	VMS port of GNU Emacs.	Original author of the port. Invented "unexec" technology on VMS for taking snapshots of running programs using page-mapping. Also did the initial version of the rest of the port.

Languages: Java, C++, Lisp, Smalltalk, assembly...
OS: Windows, Unix, Palm, Win/CE...

Fields of Expertise:

Internet Development: Server Side Java (JSPs, Servlets, EJBs...), CGI, ISAPI, protocol level work.

TCP/IP

Windows/32-bit Programming (SDK)

Visual C++ and MFC

Unix

Education:

M. Phil. Computer Science, 1988, Yale University

MS Computer Science, 1981, Yale University

Special Student in Computer Science, 1979-80 Tulane University, New Orleans

Bachelor of Science, 1978, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Other:

Intersection of Line Segments in Graphics Gems II by Academic Press (1992.) New algorithm for Computer Graphics applications. Allows very fast integer-only computation for determining if line segments intersect (includes determination of intersection point if they do.)

Miscellaneous:

US Patent 5,528,900: A device that uses adiabatic cooling of air to provide instantaneous cooling in automobiles. (One summer day it was taking too long for the a/c to cool the car... Unfortunately, no automobile manufacturers want to provide instantaneous cooling!)

Hobbies:

Physics, History, Skydiving, Flying, Skiing, Sailing, (haven't been able to engage in a lot of these for a while since becoming a family person!) Movies, Reading SF and other fiction.

Contact e-mail: Too much spam results from putting the e-mail address on a web-site! Please contact from the product web-site's contact form.