Timothy Masters

Timothy Masters received a PhD in mathematical statistics with a specialization in numerical computing. Since then he has continuously worked as an independent consultant for government and industry. His early research involved automated feature detection in high-altitude photographs while he developed applications for flood and drought prediction, detection of hidden missile silos, and identification of threatening military vehicles. Later he worked with medical researchers in the development of computer algorithms for distinguishing between benign and malignant cells in needle biopsies. For the last twenty years he has focused primarily on methods for evaluating automated financial market trading systems. He has authored four books on practical applications of neural networks:

Practical Neural Network Recipes in C++ (Academic Press, 1993)

Signal and Image Processing with Neural Networks (Wiley, 1994)

Advanced Algorithms for Neural Networks (Wiley, 1995)

Neural, Novel, and Hybrid Algorithms for Time Series Prediction (Wiley, 1995)

His latest book, "Assessing and Improving Prediction and Classification" became available on Amazon.com in May 2013 and should be available from other sellers by July 2013.

All code in his books may be downloaded from the author's website:

TimothyMasters.info

Timothy Masters also authored a hard science fiction novel, "Red Dust and Bones" under the pen name Sandy Samson, and he co-wrote (with Anastasia Rabiyah) a light fantasy romance, "Demon's Redemption."