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James F. Corum, Ph.D.
Institute for Software Research, Inc.
1000 Technology Dr.
Fairmont, WV  26554
jcorum@ieee.org

Dr. James F. Corum, (Ph.D. E.E., Ohio State 1974) taught and conducted research in antennas, RF telecommunications, and relativistic electrodynamics for 17 years in academia before turning to private industry.  He was an Associate Professor at West Virginia University, a Professor at The Ohio Institute of Technology, and a Senior Scientist at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio.   He was Chief Scientist at Scientific Applications And Research Associates, Inc., in Huntington Beach, CA, and he currently holds the position of Chief Scientist at the Institute for Software Research, in Fairmont, WV.  Collectively, he has received over a dozen awards for excellence in teaching and research from these institutions.
 Dr. Corum is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and SX.  He is listed in Who's Who in Engineering, Leading Consultants in High Technology, American Men and Women of Science, and more than a dozen other professional and biographical dictionaries.  He has published over 100 technical papers, several books, 5 patents, and he has contributed chapters to several texts.  His primary publications concern relativistic rotation and the anholonomic object, and he has recently completed a compendium of translations on the early asymmetric unified field theories of Einstein, Schouten, Cartan and Schrodinger.
 Dr. Corum was invited as a guest of the USSR Academy of Sciences to Moscow and his work on Ball Lightning and High Voltage Pulsed RF Sources has appeared in the Soviet literature.  He was cited as a "National Treasure" by The Office of the US Secretary of Defense for his work on ultra-wideband radar and phenomenology.  His engineering practice has taken him around the globe, from Moscow, Russia to Kwajelein Atoll.  The recipient of many awards, his RF research has been recognized by prestigious scientific organizations and professional societies around the world.