John-Thones Amenyo, Ph.D.

I was born in the Volta Region (what used to be called the British Trans-Volta Togoland, before independence) of Ghana, West Africa.

My education:
B.Sc. from MIT (1975-1979), Electrical Eng. and Computer Science.
M.Sc. from Columbia University (1981-1982), Electrical Eng.
M.Phil., Ph.D., from Columbia University (1986-1991), Electrical Eng. affiliated with NSF-funded Center for Telecommunications Research (www.ctr.columbia.edu). An online copy of my thesis (on Broadband Communications) is available at (comet.ctr.columbia.edu/publications/thesis.html)

Since 1992 I have been with ANS Communications, Inc., which is now a subsidiary of America Online (AOL). ANS built and ran the T3 NSFnet backbone that used to be *THE* Internet backbone until 1995. ANS, as a sub-contractor was also responsible for the winning design of the NSF's new network, the vBNS, which MCI has built.

I presented a paper at the 2nd DIMACS Workshop on DNA Based Computers, Mesoscopic Computer Engineering: Automating DNA-based Molecular Computing via Traditional Practices of Parallel Computer Architecture Design. I also posted an informal summary of the workshop.

My interests over the years have included:

• Formal systems, especially 2-level grammars/W-grammars, plex grammars, cellular/dynamical automata, abstract algebras, multi-valued logics and fuzzy logic;
• Distributed AI, particularly systems of cooperative reactive/situational agents;
• Using computational metaphors to study neuronal information processing in biological nerve networks (brains); broadband communications, including using wavelet theory to study the traffic behaviors;
• And of course, engineering issues of in L. Adleman's style DNA computing (and molecular / mesoscopic computing, in general).