Personal
Ph.D., MIT,
EECS, CSAIL, January 2007
S.M., MIT,
EECS, CSAIL, September 2001
B.S., Carnegie Mellon, Computer Science and
Mathematics, May 1999
Graduated from Great Valley High School, May 1995.
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Life
Interests
- Baseball
- Politics
- Wine
- Money
- Hacking/Coding
- Sports (current): Cross-Country Skiing, Foosball,
Disc Golf, Tennis, Squash.
- Computer Games: Grand Theft Auto, Diablo, Starcraft, SimCity 2000, NHL '98, Need for Speed
- Games: Backgammon, Go, Chess, Diplomacy
- Books: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Science, Philosophy, Harry Potter, Murder Mystery, etc.
- Music: Rush, Genesis, King Crimson, Yes, Bill Bruford, Liquid Tension Experiment, Romantic Warrior, Jaco Pastorius, Matt Savage.
- Perfecting my French bread recipe.
Politics
- My political compass: Economic=0.75, Social=-4.36
- World's Smallest Political Quiz: Personal=60%, Economic=70%. I'm a Centrist-Libertarian.
- Check the facts at FactCheck.org
- Did you know that the Federal government spent $270,000 to combat "goth culture" in Blue Springs, Mo. Learn more about the pork Citizens Against Government Waste has uncovered.
- Peruvian Congressman David Nunez writes an intelligent response to Microsoft's claims (and attempts to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD)).
- Unlike shrink-wrap agreements, the GPL adds to the rights you usually have. Read Eben Moglen's (general counsel to GNU) discussion: Part 1, Part 2 .
- The Church of Scientology is evil. Support Operation Clambake's effort to cut the Church of Scientology's hold on Google search results.
- opensecrets.org has the low down on money in politics.
- The Electronic Frontier
Foundation fights for YOUR digital rights.
- I am against the "Open" Informatics Petition.
- Terrorists from within: see the views shared by Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Usama bin Laden.
- Chou v. University of Chicago: a win for grad students everywhere.
- I want Russ Feingold as my senator! He's the only senator who objected to the overzealous and inappropriately named USA Act (Wired).
- The Economist is one of the few news magazines with solid, thought-provoking articles from around the world. A print subscription is fully worth it.
- The Cato Institute professes many of the tenents on which this country was founded. I don't agree with everything they say, but they're a breath of fresh air compared to everything else that goes on in politics.
- Burn all GIFs! Use PNG or JPEG instead.
- I support Open
Source software.
- Dave Touretzky has a nice gallery of DeCSS distribution methods.
- Read about the lies of the DVD Control Association.
- The evil UCITA:
Fact Sheet,
"Benefits",
RMS vs.,
IEEE vs.,
Info,
Other
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