About the Author

R.D. Rhyne is an American designer, developer, and writer of serialized fiction. He has a day job, but can’t talk about it.

Mr. Rhyne is currently working on his next series—Nebula Squad—after completing The Traveler in 2021. He has built software businesses, lectured around the world, and published in various scientific journals.

Mr. Rhyne resides in Campbell, CA with his wife and two sons.

Selected Lectures

Mr. Rhyne was a frequent guest speaker at conferences across the United States and Europe. Below is a selection of his recorded favorites.

Science the Shit Out of Your Business
Release Notes, 2015
SpriteKit with Crayons
NSConference, 2015
Learning from Editors
CocoaLove, 2014
Master, Commander, Conductor
Çingleton, 2013
The Invisible City
O'Reilly Gov 2.0, 2009

Photography

Glass
capt.taco
Instagram
capttaco

Feedback & Errata

Threads
@capttaco
Mastodon
rdrhyne@me.dm
Twitter/X
@capttaco

Bibliography

  1. James F. Smith III and Robert D. Rhyne II, Fuzzy Logic Resource Management and Co-evolutionary Game Based Optimization, NRL Formal Report, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C. 20375-5000, September 2001.
  2. James F. Smith, III and Robert D. Rhyne, II, Fuzzy Logic Resource Management and Genetic Algorithm based Co-evolutionary Data Mining, Advances in Scientific Computing, Computational Intelligence and Applications, N. Mastorakis, V. Mladenov, B. Suter, L.J. Wang, pg. 326, WSES Press, copyright 2001.
  3. James F. Smith, III and Robert D. Rhyne, II, Fuzzy Logic Resource Manager: Decision Trees and EA Model, Proceeding of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AIC 2001, H. Arabnia, Vol I, pg. 476, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2001, CSREA Press.
  4. James F. Smith, III and Robert D. Rhyne, II, Co-evolutionary Data Mining to Discover Rules for Fuzzy Resource Management, Proceeding of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AIC 2001, H. Arabnia, Vol I, pg. 380, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2001, CSREA Press.
  5. James F. Smith, III and Robert D. Rhyne, II, Methods of Automated Rule Discovery in a Multi-agent Adversarial Distributed Environment, Proceeding of the International Symposium on Information Systems and Engineering, ISE 2001, Waleed W. Smari, Nordine Melab, Kokov Yetongnon, pg. 25, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2001, CSREA Press.
  6. James F. Smith, and Robert D. Rhyne, Fuzzy Rule Determination By Co-evolutionary Data Mining, Fusion2001: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Fusion, Dr. Elisa Shabazian, Vol II, pg. ThA1-11 Montreal, Canada, August 6-9, 2001, International Society of Information Fusion.
  7. James F. Smith, and Robert D. Rhyne, Fuzzy logic resource manager: fuzzy decision logic and validation, Fusion2001: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Fusion, Dr. Elisa Shabazian, Vol II, pg. ThB3-3 Montreal, Canada, August 6-9, 2001, International Society of Information Fusion.
  8. James F. Smith, and Robert D. Rhyne, Methods of Automated Rule Discovery for Decision Support that Exploit an Opponent's Uncertainty, Fusion2001: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Fusion, Dr. Elisa Shabazian, Vol II, pg. ThA1-3 Montreal, Canada, August 6-9, 2001, International Society of Information Fusion.
  9. Robert D. Rhyne, II, and Dr. James F. Smith, III, A Game Based Approach to Co-evolutionary Optimization, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2001. Spector, L., E. Goodman, A. Wu, W.B. Langdon, H., M. Voigt, M. Gen, S. Sen, M. Dorigo, S. Pezeshk, M. Garzon, and E. Burke, editors. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, July 2001, pp. 908
  10. James F. Smith III and Robert D. Rhyne II, Knowledge Discovery through Games and Game Theory, SPIE Proceedings, Orlando, FL, April 2001
  11. James F. Smith III and Robert D. Rhyne II, Fuzzy Resource Manager: Tree Structure and Optimization, SPIE Proceedings, Orlando, FL, April 2001
  12. James F. Smith III and Robert D. Rhyne II, Optimal Allocation of Distributed Resources Using Fuzzy Logic and a Genetic Algorithm, NRL Formal Report NRL/FR/5741-00-9970, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C. 20375-5000, September 29, 2000.
  13. James F. Smith, III and Robert D. Rhyne, II, Genetic Algorithm Based Optimization of a Fuzzy Logic Resource Manager: Data Mining and Co-evolution, Proceeding of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI’2000, H. Arabnia, Vol. I, pp 421-428, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2000, CSREA Press.
  14. James F. Smith III and Robert D. Rhyne II, A Fuzzy Logic Resource Manager and Underlying Data Mining Techniques, Fusion2000: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Fusion, R. Reynaud, Paris, France, July 10-13, 2000, Vol. II, pp. WEB1-3 – WEB1-9, International Society of Information Fusion.
  15. James F. Smith III and Robert D. Rhyne II, Genetic algorithm based optimization of a fuzzy logic resource manager for electronic attack, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery II, B. Dasarathy, Vol. 4057, pp. 62-73, SPIE Proceedings, Orlando, 2000.
  16. James F. Smith III and Robert D. Rhyne II, Fuzzy logic based resource allocation for isolated and multiple platforms, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition IX, I. Kadar, Vol. 4052, pp. 36-47, SPIE Proceedings, Orlando, 2000.
  17. James F. Smith, III and R. Rhyne, II, A Resource Manager for Distributed Resources: Fuzzy Decision Trees and Genetic Optimization, Proceeding of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IC-AI’99, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 28-July 1, 1999, pp 669-675, CSREA Press.
  18. James F. Smith III and Robert D. Rhyne II, A Fuzzy Logic Algorithm for Optimal Allocation of Distributed Resources, Fusion 99: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information Fusion, D. Zhu, pp 402-409, International Society of Information Fusion, San Jose, 1999.