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Michael M. Blumenthal, Ph.D. SELECTED PRESENTATIONS. PATENTS, AND PUBLICATIONS

BIOPHYSICS Bettelheim, F.A., and M.M. Blumenthal (1969) "A New Parameter Measuring the Rheological Properties of Saliva", Cystic Fibrosis Club Abstracts COMPUTER SCIENCE/MANAGEMENT Between 1978 and 1986 Dr Blumenthal designed from scratch, and then wrote or co-coded some of the first large-scale microcomputer scientific/engineering software with graphics, and commercialized some of those programs on TRS-DOS and DOS for sale by Libra Laboratories, Inc. and Gantt Systems, Inc. The most important of those commercial programs were Gantt-Pack ® (a standalone database-based project management system), Stat-To-Plotter"" (linking Tandy's Statistics and Database programs together with output to color, multi-pen plotters), and Master-File (the first full-text storage and retrieval database system, and the first ever with unlimited capacity). Larger customers were government contractors and agencies, healthcare companies, publishing houses, and even groups within the media and entertainment businesses. The software activities were eventually abandoned following the industry's transition to GUI's (graphical user interfaces), and the rise of publicly funded software companies. Dr. Blumenthal chose to return to primarily scientific work, and teaching others to effectively use computers. Blumenthal, M.M. (1991) 'The Challenge of Computerizing...The Real Impact on You, Your Staff, and Laboratory Performance", Proceedings of FOODLABS '91, the First Annual Conference on Equipping, Managing, and Working in the Food Laboratory of Tomorrow: Adams Mark Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, May 1-3. Blumenthal, M.M. (1992) "PCs [Personal Computers] in Research and Production Laboratories", American Oil Chemists' Society INFORM, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 574 - 581, May Duerr, J.S. and M.M. Blumenthal (2002) Success Factors for Small Business, Presidential Symposium, ACS National Meeting, Boston FLAVOR Blumenthal, M.M. (1972) "A Study of Volatile Onion Flavors", M.S. Thesis, Rutgers University. Blumenthal, M.M. and S.S. Chang (1973) "A Method for Obtaining Reproducible Quantitative Gas Chromatograms of Volatiles Isolated from Foods", J.Agric.Food Chem., 21:6, 1123-1126. M.M. Blumenthal (1974) "Adventures in Modern Microchemistry", invited lecture presented at the F.D.A. Philadelphia District Science Branch Seminar M.M. Blumenthal (1974) "Research on a Budget and Pattern Analysis", invited lecture presented at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pa. Blumenthal, M.M. (1974) "A Model System for the Evaluation of the Effect of Different Fats and Oils on the Flavor of Simulated Deep-Fat Fried Foods", Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers University. Chang, S.S., and M.M. Blumenthal (1975) "Effect of Different Fats and Oils on the Flavor of Deep Fat Fried Foods", in Lipids. Vol. 2, R. Paoletti, G. Jacini, G. Porcellati, eds., Raven Press, New York, pp 481-489 Blumenthal, M.M., J.R. Trout, and S.S. Chang (1976) "Correlation of Gas Chromatographic Profiles and Organoleptic Scores of Different Fats and Oils after Simulated Deep-Fat Frying", J.Am. Oil Chem.Soc. 53:7, 496-501. Blumenthal, M.M. (1997) "How Food Packaging Affects Food Flavor", Food Technol. 51:1, 71-72 &74 TEXTURE Blumenthal, M.M. and K. Schaich (1998) 'The Chemistry and Texture of French Fried Potato Crust", (a fully funded proposal to the United States Department of Agriculture) Accepted after peer review, and completed - Report and additional publications in preparation with additional

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