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My birthday is June 2, 1978. That makes me 23 right now, but not
necessarily when you read this. You're capable of the basic
arithmetic, even if I've lost that
ability by now.
These days, I'm VP of Technology at
Permabit, a Cambridge startup
developing scalable and secure networked storage. I get to solve
interesting and fun problems and it's a great place to work, even if
it does eat all of my free time.
Before that, I was a
research scientist at the MIT AI Lab,
working in the Microbial Engineering project. I was working on making
cells that compute; right now the project is working on creating simple
logic gates in living cells.
I recently finished my Master's thesis in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Haptic Interaction with
Three-Dimensional Bitmapped Virtual Environments. I presented
a short paper based on this
research at the
Phantom Users Group Workshop. For that project I was working with
the CAM8 Cellular Automata
Machine, a rather unique and very nifty parallel computer originally
developed by the Information Mechanics group at
LCS. I'm essentially
connecting up the PHANToM haptic
interface to the CAM8 so that it will be possible to reach in and
physically interact with the multidimensional environments being modelled.
It's fun stuff. I hope to explore other projects with both the PHANToM and
the CAM in the future.
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I dislike text stretching all the way across the page. Many of these
pages have a fair bit of text, and it's easy to get lost if the text
spans the entire width of the screen. There's a reason that newspapers
and magazines print articles in columns, and so I'm doing that on the
web too.
I have many other projects floating around. If I ever get some free
time, perhaps I'll write about them. Unfortunately, the rigors of
software startup life have made it so I have very little of that, and
thus haven't added much content in ages. I can no longer delude myself
that the lack of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator was preventing me
from making progress.
This is shameless self-promotion, but I can't help but put a link
to this on my page. I think I'm a pretty neat and sensible person to
talk to, and
some other people do too.
You may have noticed: I have hair. It
occassionally varies in shape, size and colour, much to my amusement and
my parents dismay. I think I look perfectly respectable; I don't know
what your problem is...
What do you want?
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