Bertrand du Castel

Infobox_Scientist
name = Bertrand du Castel


image_size = 180px
caption = Bertrand du Castel in Beijing in April 2002 during a visit to Peking and Tsinghua universities.
birth_date = birth date and age|1952|2|8
birth_place = France
residence = Austin,Texas U.S.A.
nationality =
field = Computer science
work_institutions = Schlumberger
alma_mater = University of Paris
Ecole Polytechnique
known_for = Computer Theology Java Card POSC
prizes = Visionary Award (2005)

Bertrand du Castel is a French-American author and scientist who won in 2005 the Visionary Award cite journal
quotes =
author =Dan Balaban
date =
year = 2005
month = May
title =Keeping An Eye On The Future
journal =Card Technology
volume =10
issue =5
pages =30-38
publisher = SourceMedia ] from Card Technology Magazine for pioneering the Java Card, which by 2007 had sold more than 3.5 billion units worldwide. [cite press release
publisher=Business Wire
date=April 22, 2008
title=Sun Microsystems and Java Card Forum Announce Next Generation of Industry Leading Java Card Technology ] In 2008, du Castel and Timothy M. Jurgensen published "", a theology of the World Wide Web based on a comparative study of human societies and computer networks.

Biography

Du Castel was born in 1952 in France a descendant of Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, who governed France as Prime Minister before being defeated by Napoléon III, and Paul Dubois, whose Joan of Arc sculpture stands in Washington D.C. A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique with a 1977 PhD from the University of Paris in Theoretical Computer Science, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the IBM France Research Center before hiring with Schlumberger in France in 1978. He emigrated to the United States in 1983 where he has lived in Austin, Texas since, becoming an American citizen in 1994.

In 2000, du Castel was invited by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence to make a presentation of artificial intelligence advances in the industry that were original to academia. Consequently, du Castel was invited to present at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2001), [cite conference
title=Death of the Washing Machine
booktitle= Invited, AetherSystems Distinguished Lecture Series in Mobile and Wireless Systems
first=Bertrand|last=du Castel
location=Baltimore, MD
publisher=University of Maryland, Baltimore County
url=http://aether.umbc.edu/ducastel.shtml
date=February 9, 2001]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001), [cite conference
title=Death of the Washing Machine
booktitle= Invited, Engineering and Environmental Mechanics Seminar Series ,
first=Bertrand|last=du Castel
location=Cambridge, MA
publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology
date=February 2001]
University of Texas at Austin (2002), [cite conference
title=A Theology of Smart Cards
booktitle= Invited, Technology Leaders Lecture Series
first=Bertrand|last=du Castel
location=Austin, Texas
publisher=University of Texas at Austin
date=February 2002]
Peking University (2002), [cite conference
title=Darwin's 600 Million Smart Cards
booktitle=Invited
first=Bertrand|last=du Castel
location=Beijing, China
publisher=Peking University
date=April 2002]
Tsinghua University (2002), [cite conference
title=Darwin's 600 Million Smart Cards
booktitle=Invited
first=Bertrand|last=du Castel
location=Beijing, China
publisher=Tsinghua University
date=April 2002]
Purdue University (2002), [cite conference
title=A Theology of Smart Cards
booktitle= Invited, ECE Graduate Seminar Series
first=Bertrand|last=du Castel
location=West Lafayette, Indiana
publisher=Purdue University
date=August 2002]
University of Grenoble (2003), [cite conference
title=A Theology of Smart Cards
booktitle=Invited
first=Bertrand|last=du Castel
location=Grenoble,France
publisher=Grenoble Institute of Technnology
date=May 2003]
University of Paris (2004) [cite conference
title=Smart Cards are Pots
booktitle=Invited, DNAC
first=Bertrand|last=du Castel
location=Paris, France
publisher=University of Paris
date=October 2004] and University of Hamburg (2004), [cite conference
title=Intellectual Foundations of Smart Card Services (Smart Cards in Love)
booktitle=Invited, University of Hamburg Oberseminar
first=Bertrand|last=du Castel
location=Hamburg, Germany
publisher=University of Hamburg
url=http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/SVS/teaching/ws2004-05/oberseminar_ws2004-05.php
date=November 2004] which increasingly constituted the matter of a book on the relationship between religion and digital networks.

In 2005 [Acknowledgments of ] du Castel joined with Timothy M. Jurgensen, author of two books on computer security, [cite book
title=Smart Card Developer's Kit
last= Guthery
first= Scott, B.
coauthors= Jurgensen, Timothy M.
year= 1998
publisher= Prentice Hall
location= Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
isbn=0-13-093730
url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/0130937304] [cite book
title=Smart Cards: the Developer's Toolkit
last= Jurgensen
first= Timothy M.
coauthors= Guthery, Scott B.
year= 2002
publisher= Macmillan Technical Publishing
location= Indianapolis, Indiana
isbn=1-57870-027-2
url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/1578700272] to write "", which uses theological principles to study the role of religion in computer networks, and reciprocally studies religion in the light of well-established computer concepts such as trust. The book eventually proposed in 2008 a reference for the field of Computer Theology, following the road traced earlier by Donald Knuth [cite book
title=3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated
last= Knuth
first= Donald E.
year= 1990
publisher= A-R Editions
location= Madison, Wisconsin
isbn=0-89579-252-4
url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/0895792524] [cite book
title=Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
last= Knuth
first= Donald E.
year= 2001
publisher= CSLI Publications
location= Stanford, California
isbn=1-57586-326-X
url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/157586326X] and Anne Foerst, [cite book
title=God in the Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity and God
last= Foerst
first= Anne
year= 2004
publisher= Dutton
location= New York, New York
isbn=0-525-94766-3
url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/0525947663] aiming at a better understanding of computer evolution as well as religion.

Positions

*Schlumberger Fellow (2002-)
*Head of Research Axalto (2003-2006)
*Chairman of the Java Card Forum Technical Committee (1997-2006)
*Director and Vice-Chairman of the Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium (1996-2002)
*Chairman and President of the WLAN Smart Card consortium (2004-2006] [cite press release
publisher=Business Wire
date=March 31, 2004
title=WLAN Smart Card Consortium Leads the Industry to Replace Weak Username/Password With Proven SIM Based Technology for Hot Spots ]

Publications

Book:
*cite book
title=Computer Theology: Intelligent Design of the World Wide Web
last= du Castel
first= Bertrand
coauthors= Jurgensen, Timothy M.
year= 2008
publisher= Midori Press
location= Austin, Texas
isbn=978-09801821-1-8
url=http://www.amazon.com/dp/0980182115Main publications in computer security, logic, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and linguistics:
*cite journal
title=Personal Brokerage of Web Service Access
journal=IEEE Transactions on Security and Privacy
first=Apostol T.|last=Vassilev
coauthors=du Castel, Bertrand; and Ali, Asad M.
volume=5
issue=5
date=September/October 2007
publisher =Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
url=http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/sp/&toc=comp/mags/sp/2007/05/msp05toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/MSP.2007.118
*cite conference
title=Generics and Metaphors Unified under a Four-Layer Semantic Theory of Concepts
booktitle=Third Conference on Experience and Truth
first=Bertrand|last=du Castel
coauthors=and Mao, Yi
location=Taipei, Taiwan
publisher=Soochow University
date=November 2006
*cite conference
title=Intelligence in "Artificial Wireless" (Death of the Washing Machine)
booktitle=Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-2000)
first=Bertrand
last=du Castel
location=Austin, Texas
publisher=Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
date=July/August 2000
*cite conference
title=Managing Software Reuse -- An Experience Report
booktitle=17th International Conference on Software Engineering
first=Susan
last=Rosenbaum
coauthors=and du Castel, Bertrand
location=Seattle, Washington
publisher=Association for Computing Machinery
date=April 1995
url=http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=225024
*cite journal
title=Form and Interpretation of Relative Clauses in English
journal=Linguistic Inquiry
first=Bertrand
last=du Castel
volume=9
issue=2
pages=275-289
publisher=MIT Press
date=Spring 1978

Patents

*US patent reference
number = 6,591,229
y = 2003
m = 07
d = 08
inventor = Neville Pattinson, Tibor Somogyi, Jean-Marc Pietrzyk and Bertrand du Castel
title = Metrology Device with Java Programmable Smart Card
*US patent reference
number = 7,127,529
y = 2006
m = 10
d = 24
inventor = Michael A. Montgomery, Scott B. Guthery and Bertrand du Castel
title = Smart Card System Having Asynchroneous Communication With the Smart Card Operating System either as Master or Slave
*US patent reference
number = 6,157,966
y = 2000
m = 12
d = 05
inventor = Michael A. Montgomery, Scott B. Guthery and Bertrand du Castel
title = System and Method for an ISO7816 Compliant Smart Card to Become Master over a Terminal

Awards

* Visionary Award (2005): [http://www.cardtechnology.com/article.html?id=20050509MV0QYDSM Card Technology Magazine]

References

Persondata
NAME = du Castel, Bertrand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Ducastel, Bertrand
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Author and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH = 8-Feb-1952
PLACE OF BIRTH = France
DATE OF DEATH =
PLACE OF DEATH =