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Tim Mattox, Ph.D.

PhD 2006, University of Kentucky
MSEE 1997, Purdue University
BSCEE 1993, Purdue University

E-mail: tmattox at mac dot com (PGP Key)
WWW: http://homepage.mac.com/tmattox/

Something About Me

I have finished my Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky, where I was the lead student researcher in the KAOS Lab. I am now a Research Associate in the Open Systems Lab at Indiana University, working on the Open MPI project. The two loves of my life, my wife Kathleen and my daughter Samantha, do not have webpages... yet...

Here is my Curriculum Vitae (CV).

I am interested in space (both outer-space and office-space :-), free speech (What You Can't Say), reason, cryptography, and computers (particularly parallel processing). My family has a few web sites of interest: Dad's consulting page, and Peggy and Rob's company Pegasus Design.

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion.
-- Judge Stewart Dalzell, ACLU/ALA V Reno, June 11, 1996

Software and Computer Engineering References

My Publications

Parallel Processing Research: The Aggregate

I have started a project diary on the Advogato website, the "free software developer's advocate".


My useful links: (My NOT so useful links)


George Orwell's Big Brother is Watching

Well, things are getting interesting... or should I say scarry? Do the following words/acronyms mean anything to you?

Take a gander at this [19990523] Australian news article: "Careful, they might hear you"

This sure makes the following article from [19990518] TechWeb a bit more sinister: "U.S. Uses Key Escrow To Steal Secrets" This related Australian article is interesting too.

A pair of articles in Federal Computer Week "Congress, NSA butt heads over Echelon" (June 1999), and "European Union may investigate U.S. global spy computer network" (November 1998).

The existence of this program can no longer be dismissed as the raving of lunatics... That's the problem with this issue. Up till now, it's been 'X-Files' stuff. Now you have credible news sources and a credible report to the EU. I don't think this can any longer be dismissed as paranoia.
-- Barry Steinhardt, president of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein