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Greg Bacon

Madison, Alabama

Computer Scientist. AI/ML. Software Engineer. Aviator. Flight Instructor.

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Reimagining Claude Shannon’s Theseus in Rust
2026-09-26 Greg Bacon
#AI-ML #Rust #Computer Science

A little Q-learning, a perfect maze, and two mice running in WebAssembly. How I rebuilt Claude Shannon’s 1950 Theseus mouse in Rust, with a live demo.

IRSim: AI Generation of Infrared Images
2026-03-06 Michael Barnett, Daniel Kolenich, Greg Bacon, Lysle E. Shields III, Stacy Lukins, and Eric Tsibertzopoulos IEEE SoutheastCon 2026
#AI-ML #Infrared #Style Transfer

IRSim generates infrared images from electro-optical inputs with CycleGAN, trained on the ROCV dataset, to cut the cost of IR scenes for Army simulation.

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Exploring Transparency and AI Assessment in LLM-Assisted Research Applications
2025-03-28 Greg Bacon and Vineetha Menon IEEE SoutheastCon 2025
#AI-ML #LLM #Ethical AI #Explainable AI #SBIR

An LLM as research assistant for finding SBIR/STTR funding: embedding clusters measured against Latent Semantic Indexing, with a human in the loop.

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Use of Large Language Model Embeddings to Predict Research Topic Suitability Based on Organizational Capabilities
2024-03-20 Greg Bacon and Vineetha Menon IEEE SoutheastCon 2024
#AI-ML #LLM #Embeddings #Natural Language Processing #SBIR

Can LLM embeddings find SBIR topics that fit a team’s capabilities? Spectral clustering picked 3 of the 5 topics experts chose from 89. SoutheastCon 2024.

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Removing Static from Music Using a Back-Propagation Neural Network
1994-06-24 Richard Chen, Greg Bacon, Lisa Chang, and Carl “Mannix” Williams SuperQuest 1994, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
#AI-ML

AI/ML before it was cool. Our ASMS SuperQuest team used a back-propagation neural network to remove static from music, with UAH and NASA Marshall.

Theseus Maze-Solving Machine
#AI-ML #Robotics #Hardware

Claude Shannon’s 1950 Theseus machine learned a maze from experience. How the original worked, and a Rust/WebAssembly Q-learning version to run in your browser.

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