Roger Billings Mentored by Bill Lear

It is still amazing to me that Roger Billings was helped to get his start from the inventor of the Lear Jet, William P. Lear or "Bill" as he was commonly known.  This photo from Roger Billings' Instagram shows the day back around 1973 when Bill Lear came to see the Model A Ford that Roger Billings had converted to run on hydrogen.  The high school project won Billings' the International Science Fair.

Roger Billings Milestone - Bill Lear

Roger Billings on Instagram

I recently "discovered" Roger Billings on Instagram.  I did not know he had so much on there.  There are super recent photos from some his talks as well as some old photos that I haven't found before.  I also really like some of the quote images.

If you are a fellow Roger Billings fan, you are going to really like this page.

Roger Billings on Instagram

Roger Billings Invited by US Army to Submit Proposal

Another blast from at the past: Back in 2011, this press release on Newswire says that US Army invited Roger Billings to submit proposal regarding "the research and development of a low latency, multi-node communication architecture based on the concept of Low Latency Networking."  From what I can tell in the announcement, it has to do with speeding up communications in military applications.  It says the technology could also be used for "cluster computing environments where the very low latency will produce significant improvements in performance of distributed or shared memory systems."

It sounds like the Army gave him a "Phase I" contract and then invited him to submit a "Phase II" contract -- I guess that means they liked what they saw in the first phase.  Sounds like neat tech.  I'll keep looking for more references on it.

Roger Billings on Newswire.com