The team:

Malcolm Lambert - Project Manager
Malcolm is an atmospheric physicist by trade and, whilst building a house in Tasmania, he conceived the idea of using computational power to perform the difficult 3D geometric manipulations required to build with irregular pieces of rock. Malcolm has acted as the on-site project manager for several atmospheric and geophysical monitoring experiments in remote locations such as Macquarie Island and Antarctica. He has a set of skills in the areas of physics, project management, construction, computer programming and electronic and optical instrumentation. Malcolm is the inventor of Rocksolver and the owner and director of Intresto.

Dr Paul Kennedy - Software Engineer
Paul is a specialist in software development, artificial intelligence and data mining. He teaches data mining, machine learning and software engineering at UTS in Sydney. As a specialist in software engineering and artificial intelligence Paul has particular skills in the use of advanced search and optimisation algorithms and in the visualisation of complex information. Paul is using his specialist skills to design and develop the Rocksolver software required to fit together a collection of irregular polyhedra into a regular shape.

Rick Welykochy - Software Engineer
Rick is an analyst programmer specialising in scientific and network computer applications. His experiences range from the pure geek as a system administrator to the corporate director running an ISP. Always a passion with Rick is the software he creates, be it an online database of Australian caves or a large scale e-commerce system. Rick honed his skills at the University of Alberta in Canada. He brings years of language, database, graphics and management expertise into play to create the RockSolver application.

Dr Tom Osborn - Software and Marketing Consultant
Tom has been the head of a number of R&D groups at the University of Technology Sydney and has a particular interest in machine learning and statistical modeling as tools for identifying new market opportunities resulting from innovation. He has a good understanding of both the technical aspects of the challenges involved in developing the Rocksolver software and ways in which market opportunities can be identified and exploited. He is applying his skills to the Rocksolver project as an advisor and consultant.


Alan Murray - Physicist
Alan is a skilled scientific programmer, particularly in the areas of applied mathematics, finite element analysis and the visualisation of computer generated 3D objects. Alan is a lecturer in Games Programming at QANTM College in Sydney and has applied his skills to the Rocksolver project by programming much of the virtual building site needed to test rock-fitting algorithms.

 
 
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