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John Hiles 14 June 2000, 9:51pm |
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 MONTEREY (mz) -- John Hiles has been involved in software product development for over 28 years. He has led development efforts for nearly on hundred products, covering most major categories of application and system software. His most notable products include Amdahl Corporation's UTS, which successfully brought UNIX to IBM-compatible mainframe computers and Digital Research's GEM, a pioneering work in Graphical User Interface (GUI). In 1992 he began his work with adaptive, agent-based models and simulations at an unlikely place. Joining the game company Maxis, the company responsible for SimCity, Mr. Hiles made it possible to apply the striking characteristics of that game in systems designed for government and business. His work over the next seven-year period (in simulations such as SimHealth, TeleSim, and Project Challenge) extended and refined the use of adaptive, agent-based methods in commercial products. During this time, Mr. Hiles made presentations at conferences around the world on the connection between the adaptive and autonomous behavior of software agents and the ability to portray and explain complex adaptive systems.Since mid-1999 Mr. Hiles has joined the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School as a Research Professor. In addition to his consulting and design activities he is studying the potential of naturally evolved designs, such as those found in the molecular biology of the cell, to instruct the design of man-made information systems.
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