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

• The joint IEEE-CS/ACM Software Enginnering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice (v5.2 as of Feb. 1999). A PDF version is maintained by IEEE Computer. A formatted HTML version is maintained by the ACM.
• James Gleick's thought provoking home page...read it.
• The Linux Documentation Project.
• Some tutorials on programming by my old Purdue officemate, Randall Fisher
  • Compiling and Debugging C Programs
  • An Introductory Tutorial on make

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)

• Unisys Weather Processor (Formerly the Purdue Weather Processor)
• The latest Linux news at Slashdot.
• A less frantic source of Linux news at Linux Weekly News.
• Get your PC/Chip reviews, news, and PC-centric opinions daily at Ars Technica.
• The New University of Kentucky Linux Users Group and mailing lists.
• A unfettered source of Linux clustering info at The Beowulf Underground. Also see the Beowulf site.
• The lead developer on Project Darwin has a diary on Advogato.
• The truth about Macintosh via MacKiDo.
• The Macintosh News Network and the MacSurfer's Headline News
• Fred Espenak's Eclipse Home Page (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)
• The Stargazing Tool for finding low light pollution at www.DarkSky.org
• American Meteor Society's list of Comets & Meteor Showers with observation hints.
• Some good places to check on today's RAM prices: ramseeker.com and dealram.com
• A good place to check on today's stock prices: Yahoo Quotes
• Take a look at NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Read the results from the Mars Pathfinder and other mars missions.
• The ongoing Bovine RC5 Cracking Effort could use your spare CPU cycles.
• Read all about the Cracking of DES at the RSA Data Security home page.
• The FreePPP homepage for the free Mac PPP utility of choice.
• A meta-search engine Savvy Search
• Search for that cool invention at the IBM Patent Server Home Page
• A nice "links" page supplied by the New York Times: CyberTimes Navigator
• The Purdue University Mail*Hub.
• The Spam/UCE FAQ can be seen in a pretty version or from the Usenet FAQ Archive.
• The Gullibility Virus Warning.

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?

• sigint - signals intelligence
• UKUSA
• Echelon

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein