Dave Durfee
Chief Scientist – BCA
David A. Durfee graduated in Electrical Engineering from Brown University in 1980. He has worked for a number of companies being directly involved in all phases of system development including application programming, OS programming, firmware, along with digital and analog electronics design.
In 1992, he completed graduate studies at Brown University (where he received a Masters degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. for studies in EE/CS) while working as a commercial design engineer.
Dr. Durfee has been an adjunct professor for the University of Rhode Island and had been an adjunct at Brown University for over 20 years. Subjects taught include analog electronics, digital electronics, and communications. He is on the advisory board of the Slater Technology Fund, and the University of Rhode Island’s biomedical engineering program.
He founded Bay Computer Associates, Inc., in 1989. Hundreds of electronic and software designs developed at BCA include business and web applications as well as communications, medical, laboratory, and manufacturing software, firmware, and electronics. Customers range from fortune 500 firms to startups.