Howard Stearns Lead Developer and Managing Engineer
Advanced Software Products
Special Projects
Daddy's Ear
Virtual Business

I have 35 years experience in systems engineering, applications development, and management of advanced software technologies. My passion is in novel exploitations of fundmantal architectural insights.

I am a Senior/Lead Developer at Second Life and previously High Fidelity, both companies created by Philip Rosedale to create large-scale virtual worlds. Earlier, I led groups working with computing pioneer Alan Kay to leverage advances in real-time, persistent metaverse collaboration.

Earlier in my career, I served as Technology Strategist for Curl, founded by WWW pioneer Tim Berners-Lee to pioneer the concept of the single-page app.

Along the way, I have worked in mobile, early AI, blockchain, and embedded systems.

I work at the intersection of
business strategy
and
advanced technology
.

I bring new and unique technologies to maturity.
I define them, combine them, and refine them.

computer mediated communication, peer-to-peer, full stack, virtual worlds and virtual reality, collaboration, meta-media integration, mobile, meta-architecture, serious games, semantic web, social media, multi-media, ontology, expert systems, knowledge-based engineering, embedded systems, computer aided design, 3D graphics, metaverse, supervisory control and data acquisition, industrial controls, realtime systems, information architecture, enterprise web systems, content management, data integration, search and navigation, guided configuration, mass customization, engineer-to-order, programming languages