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Alan Mead [1] Alan B. Mead,

an American electrical engineer, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Applied Concepts Inc. (dba Stalker Radar), founded in March 1977 [2]. Alan Mead holds a BSEE from University of Kansas (1968), and was engineering manager at Kustom Signals, Inc. [3] [4] (1970 - 1975), and founder and president of Technology Development, Inc. (1975). Along with John Aker and others, Alan Mead holds various patents [5] concerning Doppler complex FFT police radar, which is now the primary business of Applied Concepts [6].

Chess#

Boris#

Alan Mead was involved in designing the hardware [7] of the first Boris machine [8] [9], which was manufactured from early 1978, short after the foundation of Applied Concepts. He is mentioned as representative of Boris Experimental in the ACM 1980 [10] and ACM 1981 booklets, in 1981 along with John Aker, Terry Fredrick, John Jacobs, David Slate and Larry Atkin [11].

MGS aka GGM#

Further, Alan Mead had the initial idea of a module system yielding to the development of the Modular Game System aka Great Game Machine. While the electronic and microprocessor design was due to John Aker, he was responsible for the concept and mechanical design [12].

External Links#

• Alan Mead | LinkedIn
• mead alan b from WikiPatents
• Mead, Alan B, Innovator, Allen, TX from PatentBuddy
• Welcome to Stalker Radar - The World Leader in Speed Measurement from Applied Concepts
• Applied Concepts Reviews from Glassdoor.com

References#

1. ↑ Alan Mead | LinkedIn
2. ↑ Alan Mead | LinkedIn
3. ↑ Kustom Signals Inc.
4. ↑ 264 F3d 1326 Kustom Signals Inc v. Applied Concepts Inc John L Aker | OpenJurist, pdf
5. ↑ Alan B Mead - Inventor Patent Directory, Page 1
6. ↑ Welcome to Stalker Radar - The World Leader in Speed Measurement from Applied Concepts
7. ↑ Boris assembly manual (pdf) hosted by Alain Zanchetta
8. ↑ Patent Application filed 2nd March 1978 Inventors: Rod Barclay, John A. Cunningham, Alan B. Mead, Joseph T. Spaits for Applied Concepts, Inc. from Patents from Chess Computer UK by Mike Watters
9. ↑ Professional Profiles for Innovators of D255464, Barclay, Rod; Cunningham, John A; Mead, Alan B; Spaits, Joseph T including employment histories, technology specializations, innovator rankings/ratings, residence addresses, co-workers, Electronic chess game board from PatentBuddy
10. ↑ The Eleventh ACM’s North American Computer Chess Championship, pdf from The Computer History Museum, page 7
11. ↑ The Twelfth ACM’s North American Computer Chess Championship, pdf from The Computer History Museum
12. ↑ Harry Shershow (1981). Two New Units In Action. Personal Computing, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 91

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