Previously... Tony Hooley

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HRL delivers to MOD/DSTL a novel prototype X-band antenna, and a full-scale mechatronic linear stepper-actuator, together with beam-forming and steering performance data.

Covid intervened and affected personnel connected to the project ...    HRL continued development throughout, introducing a novel hexagonal waveguide phase-shifter, and miniature etched stainless-steel actuator components

HRL signs 2nd contract with MoD/DSTL to build a prototype X-Band mechatronic phased-array antenna for LEO-satellite tracking

Wholly owned subsidiary company

 Hooley RF joins Seraphim Space Camp Mission 4, to promote our high-performance mechatronic LEO-Satellite tracking-antenna project

HRL joins the DIT / GBIP Space Mission to Silicon Valley and LA, to promote its SMA-actuated  phased-array antenna technology for LEO satellite broadband ground terminals.

HRL delivered contract Final Report together with prototype Ka-band phased-array antenna, and a demonstration-version mechatronic long-throw linear-actuator to  MoD/DSTL, together with microwave test-chamber measurements of antenna beam-forming and steering performance

1...Ltd launched its first Shape Memory Alloy  autofocus unit that went into a million Panasonic cellphones

 In 2006 Hooley developed a generalised 2D multithreaded acoustic FEA code to analyse and design new types of high-efficiency acoustic transducers and array systems.  

 The Institute of Electrical Engineers (now the IET) awarded Hooley their Achievement Medal, which is  "awarded to individuals who have made major and distinguished contributions in the various sectors of science, engineering and technology".  

After relinquishing his full-time positions at 1...Ltd Hooley founded Nallen Ltd   to pursue full-time his long-term research into image processing, cognitive computing, language understanding and robotics , whilst still acting as a consultant to 1...Ltd

 Ray Dolby, who had visited 1...Ltd's CES stand in Las Vegas in 2002, was now interested in adapting the DSoP technology for movie theatres, and 1...Ltd began a joint development with Dolby Labs in 2005 

In 2005 we also developed the first  acoustic 3D phased-array PA loudspeaker for a professional audio client.  This cylindrical array can direct up to 8 independent beams  around 360deg horizontally and +/-70deg vertically, and has a continuous power rating of over 1KW.

 Following the fantastic press after the 2002 CES launch and the Pioneer PDSP-1 launch, T3 Magazine awarded 1...Ltd Innovation of the Year 

 Pioneer of Japan licensed the 1..Ltd DSoP  technology and launched its first product, the PDSP-1, in September 2002 in USA, Japan and Europe, selling at $50,000 

 1...Ltd publicly launched its revolutionary Digital Sound Projector at CES Las Vegas in January 2002. Capable of steering and focussing 8 independent audio beams, the DSoP could produce full 5.1 channel surround sound without any additional boxes or wires. 

   Hooley's company 1...Ltd received a Design Council Millenium Products Award  in 2000 for its Digital Loudspeaker Technology  

 Hooley & Pearce filed the first Helimorph actuator patent in 1999 - the WHERM as it was initially called, is a very high displacement piezoelectric actuator with superhelix geometry. A 4mm high Helimorph actuator can move +/-6mm! 

  The Manufacturing Industry Achievement Award was presented to 1...Ltd in 1999 for "Design Product of the Year" for its Digital  Sound Projector product.  

 Back in England, as Technical Director of AI Cambridge Ltd, Hooley oversaw the development of a picogram-sensitive SEMTEX  plastic explosive detector 

 In his role as astrophysicist Hooley designed the Cottesloe Sundial in 1987 which won equal first prize at the World Sundial Triennium, Italy in 1993. Sited on the cliffs overlooking the Indian Ocean, north of Freemantle. this is one of the largest sundials in the southern hemisphere and due to its unique design, the most accurate in the world, throughout the year. 

After leaving Insearch Ltd Hooley founded his first Australian company CCA Pty Ltd, which developed an extremely fast free-text database,  as well as a multiuser business database. CCA provided computing consultancy services to companies in Sydney, including designing and installing a large networked computer-laboratory for UTS/Insearch Ltd.

 As managing Director of UTS Insearch Ltd in 1991 Hooley oversaw the creation and opening of the Insearch Business and Computing School in Sydney, Australia, and the take-over of The Prince Centre for UTS.

 More architectural work - CBTDL designed and built a staircase in Perth WA fashioned after a spider's web, made from West Australian timber. 

 In 1987 CBTDL won a contract from a West Australian client to fast-track (in 6 months) a clean-room-designed Acorn Computer-compatible BASIC Interpreter . 

 Hooley co-founded in 1978, with his college friend John Hartley, his first company Eicon Research Ltd,  initially as a technical consultancy.  After noticing that many of their clients needed small computers for gathering data, controlling equipment and also as data processing machines, Eicon started selling Apple II computers. Later on, Hooley and Hartley were joined on the Board by Dr Beth Hutchison, who was Director of Software.

University of Cambridge Doctor of Philosophy dissertation, titled "The Statistical Properties of Extragalactic Radio Sources", was submitted in 1976  It was one of the first PhD theses in the World to be printed by a computer, using Hooley's HPP early word-processor..

Frustrated by the problem of hand-typing and correcting academic papers,  in 1972,  11 years before the launch of Microsoft's Word V1.0, Hooley developed HPP (Hooley Paginating Program) that allowed documents to be entered on punched cards via a keypunch machine and printed on the University of Cambridge's central computer, an IBM370 mainframe.

In 1972 at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge,   Hooley developed RADARS (Radio Astronomy Data Analysis and Retrieval System) named for the British pioneers of radio-astronomy who were all radar developers during WWII. 

Awarded the IEE Prize for the Year for Distinction in his Electronics / Physics / Maths degree course, and awarded a 1st class honours degree from University of London

A high-speed artificial neuron simulator (modelled on McCulloch & PItts')  was developed by Hooley while a University of London undergraduate, in his Lab at Chelsea.