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Inverted-A, Inc

P.O. Box 267, Licking, MO, 65542

Inverted-A, Inc. was founded in 1975 by Dr. Amnon Katz (1935-2000), a physicist and aerospace engineer. The mission of the corporation was to push forward the bounds of knowledge, both in the humanities and the sciences. Inverted-A developed the first digital flight simulator for small aircraft, the Minisimulator IIC, at a time when the market was still dominated by all analog devices.

At the same time, Inverted-A encouraged literary output from emerging writers by starting a magazine entitled the Inverted-A Horn. Known for its groundbreaking essays on social issues and the well-crafted metrical poetry that it fosters, The Inverted-A Horn is currently on its 27^th issue.

In October of 2000, Amnon Katz was killed while test-piloting an experimental helicopter. Leadership over the corporation was transferred to his two children, Aya Katz, then an assistant professor of linguistics at Providence University, Taiwan, and Nets Hawk Katz, currently an Associate Professor of mathematics at the University of Indiana.

The focus of the research department at Inverted-A has changed from aerospace engineering to cognitive science. At the heart of our cognitive science program is Project Bow, which follows the development of a cross-fostered male chimpanzee as he acquires language and eventually literacy.

Born February 16, 2002, Bow has been brought up in a human household since he was one month old. He is exposed to three languages, Hebrew, English and Mandarin Chinese. Bow expresses himself by means of lexigrams in the standard orthography of each of the test languages. The eventual goal of the project is to test Bow’s capacity not only for language but for literacy using standard keyboards.