ESP Biography



JOSEPH OKOR, MIT Alum, self-employed inventor, entrepreneur



Major: 15, 6-3

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: 1976

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

* MIT Class of '76 (SB Management), '77 (SB Computer Science)
* Has the basic patent on present day video game systems.
* Represented myself in a 6 year patent infringment suit against all the major companies in the Home and Arcade Video Game Industries
* Has conducted self-supported research in 1) Technology tranfer to 3rd World countries 2) Energy 3) Education 4)Telecommunications 5) Health care delivery
* Working on next generation video game system



Past Classes

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W11075: Hands on hardware for software people in Splash 2016 (Nov. 19 - 20, 2016)
You software people out there, you know you want to play with hardware. Some of you have even bought Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc and tried doing hardware. Chances are you had a bad experience, and have vowed not to play with hardware again. Good News. We have solved the problems that make hardware weird for software people. Come see for yourself. You will get the chance to use your programming skills to interact with our "toys". What type of "toys" you ask?. Our "toys" include (a) keyless entry system (b) color LED message board (c) 60 color LED strip 1 meter long (d) electro/mechanical devices such as stepper motors, dc motors, solenoid, servo, etc. We also have some robots. Here is the link to our website: http://xfunbotix.com/splash2016/


E2320: Fun with robots in HSSP Spring 2009 (Mar. 14, 2009)
Learn robotics by programming our robots to perform a variety of tasks.


Fun with Robots in HSSP (2010)
Learn science and engineering by having fun programming our robots. The prerequisites for this class were: none