Prof Ian Cullimore's Website

Having a very basic text-only website like this (hand-crafted by me in simple HTML) with just the essential information is quite fun for a change. Hopefully Tim Berners-Lee would be proud...!

email me at ian@iancullimore.com: Click here to send an email to me , or contact me at:

UK: +44 (1568) 709129
USA: +1 (408) 769 3204

Specialities: Software/Hardware Patents, IP (copyright, source code infringement), Computer Forensics Expert Witness, hands-on software/firmware/hardware developer, and electronics design

31 Expert cases to date
22 Expert Reports written to date
10 Depositions given
3 at Trial or Testimony or Attendance (Old Bailey - Central Criminal Court, London; American Arbitration Association, San Francisco; United States District Court, Oakland CA)
10 patents to my name

Clients include:

Atari v Target Corporation
O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles (Abe v Apple)
Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, Chicago (Parkridge v Indyzen)
Fish & Richardson, Atlanta (Qualcomm v Apple)
LTL, Los Angeles (Semcom v MediaTek)
Morrison Foerster, San Francisco (Phoenix v VMware)
Fenwick & West, Mountain View (Papst v Hewlett Packard)
Proskauer Rose, Boston (Smart Skins v Microsoft)

Pocket PC Inventor and Software & Hardware Developer:

Hands-on developer and inventor of the world's first pocket PCs (the Atari Portfolio and the Poqet_PC); video games programmer (Atari, Commodore, Sinclair, iPhone, Android); one of the Architects of the Symbian smartphone operating system (ex-Psion EPOC 32); hardware and software designer and inventor of IoT ('Internet of Things') devices such as the GoSecured hi-tech security padlock; IoT operating systems and MCU inventor.

Software Development Consultant:

I specialise in Embedded C (ARM, x86, MIPS)
Also C++, C#, Java, Python, VHDL, and most other programming languages
Linux servers (LAMP, general Frameworks)
'Bringing up' hardware boards
Hardware design and prototyping (ARM, x86, MIPS); Eagle CAD; Xilinx FPGA
Communications: TCP/IP stack development, Serial, SPI, I2C
Device drivers

Major Employment Highlights:

Peavey Electronics
British Aerospace (Brooklands, Weybridge, UK - Software Programmer) - I even did a tiny amount of work on Concorde
Thorn EMI, Soho, London - Video games programmer (Atari)
Psion, London - Video games programmer and developer of the Psion Organiser handheld computer
Digital Research/Novell - DR DOS and NetWare PalmDOS lead developer
Xircom, California - Software Director
Two Way TV, London - Interactive TV, CTO

Education:

Degree in Mathematics from King's College London
PhD in Cognitive & Computer Science from the University of Sussex, UK
Had a spell as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK
Started an MSc in Computer Science at Imperial College, London, but became too busy with my successful startup 'D.I.P.' where I invented the Atari Portfolio...
Currently a Visiting Professor at the new Hereford University (NMITE), UK
Discovery of the Higgs Boson (University of Edinburgh/Open University/FutureLearn)
Philosophy of Science (University of Oxford - Further Education)
Attended Astrophysics at University College, London, as part of my undergraduate course

I am based between California's Silicon Valley, USA, and the UK.

Contact me for more details.

See my Wikipedia entry here

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Website last updated 14th June 2023