harlan(at)brotherstechnology.com
Cell phone: 203.589.6769
Curriculum Vitae
Founder
Brothers Technology, LLC
Intellectual Property, Research & Development
July 1992 – Present (20 years)
Scholar at Large
Citizen Scientists League
Research/Education
July 2012 – Present (2 months)
Guest Editor
The Real Life Survival Guide (NPR)
Media
August 2011 – Present (1 year)
Director of Technology
The Country School
Primary/Secondary Education Industry
July 2002 – June 2011 (9 years)
Consultant
Yale Mathematics Department
Higher Education Industry
June 2001 – May 2007 (6 years)
Consultant
Yamaha Research & Development
Professional Products Division
Consumer Electronics Industry
November 1987 – August 1989 (1 year 10 months)
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As an inventor, Harlan's successful designs run the technological gamut from the encryption-based Event Verification System (bought by a predominant IP portfolio firm) to the Bathtub Buddy water alarm (licensed to Salton, Inc.). As a mathematician and researcher, he has published numerous journal articles related to number theory and the fractal geometry of music. As a musician, he has performed, recorded, and composed in a wide range of genres. His experience as a Director of Technology, inventor, creative artist, researcher, educator, and technical design consultant gives him a unique, cross-disciplinary background as a problem solver and creative thinker.
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Data-Conditioned Encryption Method (Patent Pending) |
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Event Verification System (EVS™/Vericam™, Patent No. 5,799,083) |
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Interior Mailbox Light (Postlite™, Patent No. 5,975,713) |
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Portable Ashtray (SmokeMate™, Patent No. 5,673,709) |
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Luminous Pull-Cord (Opticord™, Patent No. 5,454,056) |
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Household Safety Receptacle (Digisafe™, Patent No. 5,320,545) |
Publications:
(Reprints and preprints available upon request)
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H. J. Brothers, "The Nature of Fractal Music," in Benoit Mandelbrot - A Life in Many Dimensions, edited by Michael Frame, World Scientific Publishing (October, 2013).
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N. Neger and H. J. Brothers, "Benoit Mandelbrot: Educator," in Benoit Mandelbrot - A Life in Many Dimensions, edited by Michael Frame, World Scientific Publishing (October, 2013).
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H. J. Brothers, "Pascal's prism." The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 96, No. 536, 2012; pages |
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H. J. Brothers, "Pascal's triangle: The hidden stor-e." The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 96, No. 535, 2012; pages |
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H. J. Brothers, "Finding e in Pascal’s triangle." Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 85, No. 1, 2012; page 51.
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H. J. Brothers, "Mandel-Bach Journey:
A marriage of musical and visual fractals." Proceedings of Bridges Pecs, 2010; pages |
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H. J. Brothers, "Intervallic scaling in the Bach cello suites." Fractals, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2009; pages 537-545. (Supplementary material can be found here.)
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H. J. Brothers, "How to design your own pi to e converter." |
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H. J. Brothers, "Structural scaling in Bach’s cello suite no. 3." Fractals, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2007; |
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H. J. Brothers, Improving the convergence of Newton's series approximation for e. College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2004; (The above article appears with permission of CMJ. Supplementary material can be found here.) |
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J. A. Knox and H. J. Brothers, Novel series-based approximations to e. College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 30, No. 4, 1999; pages (NOTE: The above paper was selected by mathematicians Ron Larson, Robert P. Hostetler, and Bruce H. Edwards as one of the fifty best articles on calculus from MAA periodicals. It appears as a supplement to their textbook, Calculus with Analytic Geometry, Seventh Edition.) |
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H. J. Brothers and J. A. Knox, New closed-form approximations to the Logarithmic Constant e. The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1998; pages |
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Mandel-Bach Journey: A Marriage of Musical and Visual Fractals, Bridges Conference, Pecs, Hungary, July 28, 2010. |
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Fractals and Music, The MathScience Innovation Center, Richmond, VA, August 16, 2007. |
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Fractal Music Lab: A Modern Approach to the Mensuration Canon, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT, March 28, 2006. |
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Fractal Music, Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges in Connecticut, North Haven, CT, April 29, 2005. |
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Rubbing Shoulders With Newton: A New Look at a Fundamental Constant of Nature, Society for Amateur Scientists, 3rd Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, January 14, 2005. |
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Fractal Music Lab, Yale University Workshop on Fractal Geometry, New Haven, CT, August 17, 2004. |
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Exponential Explorations: Inspiring Students With Their Own Contributions to Number Theory, Joint Meeting of the Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges in Connecticut and the Northeast Section of the Mathematical Association of America, Danielson, CT, May 5, 2000. |
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Fractal music CD in honor of Benoit Mandelbrot for ScienceWriters2010, hosted at the Yale Peabody Museum for the National Association of Science Writers, November 6, 2010.
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A sample of original compositions. Styles include Jazz, Brazilian, Pop, and Fractal. |
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A selection of fractal music examples that illustrate specific power-law relations. |
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Jazz guitar performance with 12 piece Latin band Sonido Unidad. |
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"Brecker 8," a fractal music compositon with accompanying video by Teja Krasek, featured on IBM's website. (See selection number 6 in the section entitled "Fractals in culture and society.") |
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iKandl Birthday App, an eco-friendly, interactive, multimedia greeting app for the iPhone and iPad, now at the iTunes Store. |
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Mandelbrot Zoom, a fractal animation produced for the feature length documentary BACH & friends, January, 2010. |
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The Bach Project interview with filmmaker Michael Lawrence for feature length documentary on Johann Sebastian Bach's pervasive influence in 21st century music, December 5, 2008. |
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Fractal Music Composer is a Java app that enables you to create original prolation canons. |
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Mandelbrot's World of Fractals, Technical consultant for DVD by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, Gordon Films UK, in conjunction with Yale University and the National Science Foundation, December, 2003. |
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Liquid Crystal Glass House, Cellular automata programming for Michael Silver’s design and exhibit at “Super-ficial: The Surfaces of Architecture in a Digital Age,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, Zenith Media Lounge, New York City, January 31 - April 6, 2003. |
