Originally from: Berkeley, California and Ann Arbor, Michigan Education: PhD in Computer Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech); MS in Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech; MS in Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego; BA with Honors in Computer Science, University of Michigan.

I grew up in Berkeley, California during the Free Speech Movement, and Ann Arbor, Michigan where I attended high school and college.  I spent many years in graduate education where I had remarkable experiences with some amazing people.  In between I worked in the computer industry where I have held senior positions at the largest and smallest of companies and worked as a consultant.  I now work with streaming computers at Stream Processors Incorporated.

Geek stuff: I first started using computers in 1973 at the legendary People's Computer Company in Menlo Park.  Somehow I got hooked and have been working with them ever since.  I'm credited here on one of the earliest online multiplayer games, SPACE for the time-shared HP 2000F (1975).  I participated in developing an early scientific supercomputer (1980), research machines with up to 1,024 processors, and architected the worlds most scalable graphics cluster (2002).  I've been a Linux user since 1994.