Gerald H Thomas

Gerald H. Thomas has 10 years of experience in high energy particle physics at CERN, Switzerland, Helsinki, Finland and Argonne National Laboratory, USA; followed by 25 years in the corporate world at AT&T Bell Labs, USA, Motorola (Cellular Division), and a successful start-up company in Florida, USA. More recently, the author has been an adjunct professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering for the past 20 years. The corporate experiences included project management, software engineering, and senior and executive management. Of relevance to these books, the author worked closely with System Dynamics consultants trained at MIT to help control the delivery and staffing over-runs for a large software project. This generated the idea that a deterministic theory of decisions could be created that would apply not only to software projects but more generally to any field of human endeavor in which decisions play a significant role. The key was to tie this idea to a theoretical foundation, which experience in particle physics provided. This resulted in a two volume set for Geometry, Language and Strategy. A second two-volume set along the same lines was published by Wolfram Media entitled A Field Theory of Games: Introduction to Decision Process Engineering. These books provide a toolkit based on the Wolfram Language that allows readers to apply the theory to practical problems.