Bernard Scott

Bernard (Bud) Scott was born in Brooklyn, New York. He wanted to be a writer from the earliest age, and in college was encouraged by the English Department to keep working on a novel he had begun about troubled youth in New York. After college he went to sea with the intention of doing just that, but soon found he didn't know enough about life to deal with the questions his novel had raised. He was only twenty and had to live more. That living took him into the Air Force where he became a translator of Russian, Vietnamese and French and a near assignment to Dien Bien Phu when VietNam was still under the French. Then into a Protestant seminary and duty as a missionary to the artistic community of Greenwich Village. He wrote feature articles for the Village Voice, published a literary quarterly, Exodus, that was subsequently showcased in the Whitney Museum, and launched an art gallery, Judson Gallery, that put on the first "happenings" in NYC, featuring Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Allan Kaprow, among others. He met and dealt with writers like Jack Kerouac (who took a bath in Scott's apartment). He kept up with his writing all this time, and one of his stories received honorable mention in Macmillan's annual Best Short Stories.

Then he became a Catholic and everything changed for him. To support his family he got into computer technology, and eventually formed Logos Corporation (1970-2001) where he served as chief architect of a computer-based natural language translation system used by government and commercial entities in the US, Canada, and most of the countries of Europe. But writing was always there in the background, producing stories and other works that are just now becoming published. His novel, Secret of Lost Mountain, is an adventure/mystery novel that reflects the author's Catholic sensibilities, as does most of his later writing. A novella, The Heart Hath Its Reasons, and a book of short stories, Brian's Law have also been published recently. He is the editor of The Mystery of Work--now in its second edition--an anthology of spiritual authors (saints, popes, mystics) reflecting, directly or indirectly, on Christ's statement, "Without Me you can do nothing." He translated the French spiritual classic, Cum Clamore Valido, recently published under the title, The Redeemer's Call to Consecrated Souls. Recent publications also include a memoir of his conversion entitled, The Man I Called Father (published under the nom de plume, Paul Josephson). He is about to publish a technical book entitled Language, Brains and the Computer. It reports on his work with language and the computer, based on certain assumptions he had made about how the brain learns and deals with language. Logos translation technology has always been recognized as world class. Logos translation technology is currently available free of charge on the Internet as OpenLogos, an open-source version housed by the quasi-governmental German research Institute, DFKI. Scott is also the webmaster of the Logos Institute website oriented towards Catholic spirituality, www.logosinstitute.org.

He lives with his dear wife, Arlene, on the west coast of central Florida. And is still writing.