Go Simon Sunatori, P.Eng./ing., M.Eng., F.N.A., IEEE-SM, WFS-LM, was born in 1959 on planet Earth. He is a non-hyphenated Canadian Citizen, and does not belong to any ethnic groups or cultural communities. He obtained a Master of Engineering (Engineering Physics) degree from McMaster University in Hamilton (Ontario) Canada in 1983. He received many scholarships such as "Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship" and "David Sarnoff RCA Scholarship". He enrolled in the Renaissance Doctorate (R.D.) programme for "multi-disciplinary" or "polyhistor" study at New York College of Advanced Studies (NYCAS) in 2003. His doctoral thesis (discourse) was entitled "Multi-Lingual Knowledge Matrix Method and System".
He worked at Northern Telecom Electronics Ltd. and at Bell-Northern Research Ltd. (now Nortel Networks) for 11 years as a Member of the Scientific Staff (MSS). He acted as Senior Integrated Circuit Designer for the CMOS Standard Cell Library, as Senior Design System Integrator for the GaAs Cell Library, and as UNIX Systems Administrator. For his work and commitment, he earned a few awards, notably two "Bell-Northern Research Awards of Excellence" and a "Northern Telecom Solutions for Excellence". In 1985, he created an on-line news, information and discussion forum called CM4NEWS, for which he served as Editor-in-Chief and later as Editor Emeritus.
As an Entrepreneur, he founded HyperInfo Canada Inc. in 1989 to pursue Research and Development on Information Processing and Publishing Technology as well as on Electro-Magnetic Technology Applications. While serving as President and Chief Executive Officer, he also functioned as Chief Designer/Engineer/Scientist/Technologist as well as Systems Administrator (Webmaster/Postmaster) and Publisher/Editor. In 1995, he set up HyperInfo Knowledge Power Centre on the Internet World-Wide Web to offer Pay-For-Value Knowledge Services via E-commerce (First Virtual, MilliCent, ClickBank, PayPal). Some of the websites he created, "HyperInfo Knowledge Power Centre", "MediCanada Services", "The Living Atom Theory" and "Potentium: The Coaching Network™", were nominated for Internet awards. The "HyperInfo Knowledge Power Centre" won the 1996 Canadian Internet Special Achievement Award for "Best Internet Publication (electronic)", and the 1999 Golden Web Award. In 2002, his court case with the Commission de protection de la langue française (CPLF) was mentioned in the Globe and Mail newspaper. In 2005, one of his inventions was featured in the Ottawa Business Journal newspaper. In 2008, he appeared in PEO's publication "YOU FIND ENGINEERING IN THE MOST AMAZING PLACES" along with Leonid Brezhnev, Jimmy Carter, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Lee Iacocca, Boris Yeltsin, etc. In 2009, he discovered a serious security breach in Canada Post Ombudsman's online complaints system, as reported in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper.
As a Computer Programmer, he wrote UNIX and IBM mainframe software programmes such as microelectronics device characterisation, hypertext search facility, electronic democracy and voting groupware, idiot-proof push-button automation, integrated version control and configuration management, and intelligent workflow automation systems, Apple Macintosh applications such as "HyperInfo Intelligent Knowledge Object Organisation System" which organises and processes Information as Knowledge Objects, and "Multi-Lingual Food Nutrition Knowledge Matrix" which organises hundreds of foods and nutrients in a simple and consistent manner in both English and French, as well as CGI scripts such as "Electronic Commerce Transaction Processing", "Multi-Lingual Presentation from a Single Database" and "Printable Calendar Generator". He reported more than 1 700 bugs for Apple Mac OS X, and more than 800 bugs for Runtime Revolution.
As an Independent Inventor, he drafted and filed more than 60 solo patent applications in many fields, e.g., electronics, magnetics, optics, dynamics, software, hardware, energy, safety, environment, medical, consumer products, sporting goods, fashion, food, etc. with such titles as "Topless Microwave Cooking Device", "Unisex Magnetic Coaxial Connector Device", "Bisexual Magnetic Garment Closure System" and "3-Way Hockey Rink". He submitted inventions to the U.S. Department of Defense for Combating Terrorism Technology Research, i.e., "Crash Survivor" and "Germ Buster", to NASA Create the Future Design Contest, etc. Some of his inventions appeared on the @discovery.ca programme on the Discovery Channel, i.e., "Erectable Hexa-Conical Take-Out Coffee Cup" (Winner, Innovation & Beauty), "Maglev Shopping Cart" (Winner) and "Ellipsoidal Squirrel-Free Bird Feeder" (Honourable Mention). He was nominated for several Manning Innovation Awards. In 1999, he became the first person in the world to file a Canadian patent application electronically on the Internet. In 2002, he was ranked number 11 on the list of most patent applications filed in Québec (the only independent inventor among multi-national corporations and universities), as published in Les Affaires newspaper.
As a Marketer, he commercialised his inventions MagneScribe™: A 3-in-1 Auto-Retractable Ballpoint Pen with an Ergonomic Cushion that Leonardo da Vinci would have loved to wear! in 2006, and Magic Spicer™: Self-Sealing Auto-Aligning Magnetically-Hanging Spice Dispenser with a Continuously-Variable Hole-Size Selector in 2008. He set up website Sunatori.com in order to distribute the products world-wide via E-commerce (PayPal, eBay, Amazon, Shopzilla, BizRate). The unique products are becoming sensational global super-megahits with a TV infomercial. He builds HyperFeeder: Squirrel-Proof Bird Feeder with Concentric Perching Rings and a Transparent Globe, and ships them to places around the world.
As a Scientist, he tried to defy Earnshaw's Theorem with heart-shaped magnetic flux lines in Magnetically Suspended Flywheel System in 2000 in an effort to win a ceremonial trip to Stockholm, Sweden. In 2002, he launched project NH3 Power Canada with the goal of developing a compact electromagnetic device to produce hydrogen gas from liquid ammonia for use by fuel cells for vehicle propulsion. He experimentally developed PuckMeal™/PuckRepas™: Hockey-Puck Shape&Size No-Mess Meal Packed with Nutrition! in 2006, and Koreless Pizza™ in 2008.
As an Educator, he pioneered on-line multi-media web seminar/presentation/course format (now known as Webinar) with QuickTime technology for Potentium: The Coaching Network™ in 1996. He joined the Faculty of the New York College of Advanced Studies in 2002 as an Adjunct Professor where he was awarded the first "Faculty's Best Achievement Award", and was quickly appointed the dean of its Institute of Information Technology for 2003-2004. He prepared college-level certification examinations for "HyperTalk Computer Programming Language" and "Canadian Intellectual Property". He conceived and published educational software called "HyperGames Centre" which is an educational multimedia application with more than 100 games and utilities.
As an Author, he wrote Towards a Better Corporation: The Legendary Years - Memorable Career Highlights (from 1983-09 to 1990-03), an E-book Take Control of Sudoku in 2006 together with companion on-line facility Exhaustive Matrix Generator.
As a Consultant, he wrote numerous Research & Development proposals and provided technical solutions on many subjects to companies and organisations via Big Idea Group, InnoCentive, NineSigma, TekScout, etc.
As a Futurist, he wrote a few articles for contributing to the future of human civilisation.
As an Activist, he wrote many articles for advocating social and economic justice in the spirit of absolute simplicity and ultimate consistency.
As a Graphics Designer, he designed logos, banners, business cards, a book cover, a product package, website graphics, etc.
As a Systems Administrator, he managed Apple Macintosh hardware with Mac OS and Mac OS X software applications.
He is a Member of the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Life Member of the World Future Society (WFS), among others. In 2001, he obtained une attestation délivrée par l'Office de la langue française. In 2002, he became a Lifetime Fellow of the North American Academy of Arts and Sciences (NAAAS). He has been listed on Wikipedia and on Answers.com since 2005, and on Canadian Who's Who published by the University of Toronto Press (UTP) since 2008. Because of the proposal to the Parliament of Canada's Special Joint Committee On a Renewed Canada in 1992, he considers himself as a true father of Nation of Quebec within a united Canada. His personal home page <http://WWW.HyperInfo.CA/GS.Sunatori/> contains his curriculum vitae, portfolio, opinions, proposals, publications, and so on.
He has 3 children: François (1989), Véronique (1991), Évelyne (1993). He enjoys Star Trek, cycling in summer and cross-country skiing in winter, as well as designing and building ice and snow structures such as a skating rink, an igloo, a dome, an arch, a pyramid, a wall, a fortress, a maze, a tunnel and a toboggan hill for his kids. He makes his own red wine from grape juice, makes yogurt, and grows and harvests Ginkgo biloba. He also dreams of living in a dome house. In 1997, he underwent an Excimer Laser Eye Surgery (LASIK) to achieve 20/20 vision, so he participated in the Astronaut Recruitment Campaign by the Canadian Space Agency in 2008. Fiercely individualistic, he practices his own philosophy "Sunatorism", culture "Sunatorian" and religion "Sunatorianity". He made more than 50 blood donations, and sold his body to research institutions for experimental medical studies as a healthy control subject (guinea pig) in the name of science. He represented himself in court a few times. He made a donation to a museum to have a bug named after him: Cactophagus sunatoriorum
