Creative technical range, with work behind the words.

Howard Pearlmutter has spent decades connecting computational capability with what people can understand and do.

His work crosses software, architecture, graphics, simulation, interfaces, media, learning, research, and advisory. More than 200 engagements, primarily through companies he founded, have required different combinations of that range.

NASA, Apple, Disney, Xerox, HP, Kodak, CBS, Fujitsu, CSC, Capital One, Symantec, and the Financial Times are among his development and consulting clients.

The stories offer several ways to examine the contribution.

A specialized model became executive access. For GM and Ford users, Howard created a commercial web-enabled animated virtual reality due diligence and signoff system for factory designs. He completed it in nineteen weeks and wrote 100% of its application code. Read the story.

A computational question became a human-interface study. NASA atmospheric and parallel-computing work led to a 700-page examination of human interaction with dynamic simulation. Howard also worked on computational fluid dynamics at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. Explore the foundations.

Mathematical structure became animation. Howard wrote modeling and rendering software for imagery in Ecological Design: Inventing the Future. See the relationship.

Personal software made learning interactive. IBM PC MasterType became a number-one educational bestseller; Howard's team shipped an early Macintosh version, and educational videogame work included Disney EPCOT and CBS commissions. Read the early-software story.

Current prototypes connect media with practical engineering. At Telos Alliance, AI-assisted work spanned native integration, enterprise middleware, high-performance computing, graphics, and simulation. The custom seminar engaged developers, product and project leaders, executives, and skeptics. John Schur wrote: “I felt that Telos received multiple times the value of our investment.” Read Telos.

Howard has also been paid to present to professionals from IBM, AT&T, Sun Microsystems, Intel, BT, T-Mobile/Deutsche Telekom, Nokia, NASA Ames, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Barclays across five continents.

For your own subject, the relevant combination depends on the audience and purpose. You may need an interactive explanation, media prototype, technical story, or team session.

Begin with what someone needs to understand. Choose the form that can make the work more useful to them.