I am a software engineer by day, or at least by morning.
I used to be a student in the department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science but now I play with computers instead.
(I'm not John M. Carr the campus police officer, or Joe Connolly at RLE who is jfc@rle.mit.edu. The MIT database may give you one of those two when you ask for me.)
I work for Cilk Arts on compiler technology for multicore and multiprocessor systems. I worked for NextHop, from October 18, 2004 to July, 2007. From February 2003 until May 2004 I worked for Legra, making an 802.11 (wireless ethernet) access point. My previous job was Labor Unit 24918 at Cisco (1998-2001), building a content delivery network. Before that, DEC...I mean Digital...I mean Compaq (1998-1999) on NFS and cluster filesystems for DEC OSF/1...I mean Digital Unix...I mean Compaq Tru64 UNIX; Rational (1997-1998) on ClearCase; Polaroid Medical Imaging Systems (1995-1997) on the Helios medical printer; MIT; and IBM Federal Systems Division. See my PDF or plain text resume for more details.
The fates of my former employers, none of which have survived intact: the startup I worked for, SightPath, was bought by Cisco; DEC was bought by Compaq after I worked there and after I returned to work at Compaq that company was bought by HP. Conley was acquired by EMC (a company with very hostile personnel policies). I arrived at Pure Atria soon after Pure acquired Atria and left after Rational swallowed them both. After serious financial losses Polaroid Medical Imaging Systems was bought by Sterling Diagnostic Imaging which was bought by Agfa (which killed the product I worked on). MIT survives, but the group I worked in is essentially gone. IBM FSD was bought by Loral a few years ago.
The PMIS project, Helios 14x17, involved image processing and control code for a medical printer. The printer used four five watt lasers for imaging. I also wrote a DICOM implementation. The printers are probably all gone now.
I have contributed to GCC.
I have modified the OCaml compiler to generate 64 bit code for SPARC. Patches are available for versions 3.08.3 and 3.09.0. (The OCaml development group at INRIA does not have hardware to support a 64 bit SPARC platform in the official distribution.)
An inventory of my CD Collection
Al Stewart
Marillion
Blue Rodeo
Vienna Teng
Journey to the Center of the Colon
The soundtrack to the Mars rover mission.
I am a member of the National Motorists Association, the only national group supporting motorists rights and the use of engineering standards instead of politics for traffic control.
The Federal Highway Administration is revising the Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices; read my comments.
Published opinions in Mihos v. Swift, the case in which Turnpike board member Christy Mihos sued Governor Swift for firing him from the Turnpike board after he refused to raise tolls in January, 2002: October 29, 2002 interim order, December 17, 2002 final judgment, appeals court decision.
Online speed regulations for many Massachusetts cities and towns, and state highways.
Map (and maps) of Massachusetts speed limits.
I drive an Audi S4. (picture)
My old car was a Ford Contour SVT. (picture) Ford refused to fix the defective paint. (Much later, I learned that the car had been repainted twice before I bought it new, without stripping the old paint off first. Ford presumably knew this while they were telling me it wasn't their problem and it wasn't covered under warranty. Eventually they paid part of the cost of repair to the new owner.)
``The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.'' -- Repo Man.
There is a reason why young males have high insurance rates.
Radar trailers can slow down cars, or make them speed up.
Tale Of the Troika by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky has a discussion of thinking and driving.
I play wargames. Check out The Gamers, and Birds Of Prey. I made some Aircraft Data Cards for JD Webster's "Fighting Wings" games. There are many more (including some of mine) in Uncle Ted's ADC Collection.
See also the MIT Science Fiction Society and my list of science fiction book recommendations.
If you like math puzzles, check out this test from George Alec Effinger's novel Death in Florence.
Some book jackets are inspiring. Others are not.
This page is not Netscape enhanced. I haven't tried to make it work well with Internet Explorer. In their attempts to monopolize the internet these companies make their products incompatible and called them "enhanced". Please support open standards for the internet while you still have a chance.
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