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Welcome to Brothers Technology.  We create a broad range of intellectual property for license and sale.  Current projects range from novel consumer devices to commercial encryption techniques and educational tools.  Select from the menu on the right to learn more.



Highlights

Fractal music paper published

A new research paper by Harlan Brothers has been accepted by the journal Fractals.  The article, entitled "Intervallic Scaling in the Bach Cello Suites," employs a novel and robust approach to establishing the existence of power-laws in music.

 
Harlan Brothers was recently interviewed by filmmaker Michael Lawrence for his upcoming Bach Project, a feature length documentary on the importance of Bach in the 21st century.  Watch an excerpt of the interview about Bach, fractals, and mathematics on YouTube.

pi to e converter

The current issue of the The AMATYC Review features Harlan Brothers' paper entitled "How to Design Your Own pi to e Converter." The article describes unexpected relationships between the two most famous constants of nature.

 
Combinatorics

Ivars Peterson of the Mathematical Association of America writes in his Mathematical Tourist column about Harlan Brothers and his research relating the work of Bach and Cantor.

 
Fractal Music Workshops

A sample of Harlan Brothers' recent work in combinatorics is now available at the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.  The research deals with the enumeration of runs and rising sequences.

 
Fractal Music Workshops

Brothers Technology founder, Harlan Brothers, is now offering Fractal Music Workshops to highschools, colleges, and training institutes.  Using the tools of fractal geometry, these workshops offer teachers and students alike the opportunity to explore many of the intimate connections between mathematics and music.

 
Fractal music paper published

The latest research paper by Harlan Brothers appeared in the World Scientific Publishing journal Fractals (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2007; pages 89–95).  The article, entitled "Structural Scaling in Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3," reveals musical structure related to the Cantor set and helps to establish a rigorous mathematical approach to this new field of fractal music analysis.

 
EVS patent sold

Brothers Technology's wide-ranging patent for the Event Verification System (EVS) has been sold.  EVS provides a tamper-proof means for establishing the authenticity, time, and place of a digital recording along with a means for communicating this information to a remote location.

The U.S. patent, No. 5,799,083, was bought by a large intellectual property firm.






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