Welcome to my home page

Please visit the new home for this page here.

NEIGHBORHOOD

Here's an arial view of the street where I live. go

I plan to share a few ideas of my own on this page.

I don't have an overflow of collegues right now, so feel free to share your comments and criticisms. Also, feel free to inform me about your own work, and point me towards related work. I'll be happy to reference your work.

Some of the ideas I'll document here are:

1. self replicator
2. cryptographic obfuscation
3. robot arena simulator
4. vr-topographies and vehicles
5. credit asignment by selling information

ABOUT ME

I'm a middle-adulthood adult, 34. I'm married. I live in Northern Virginia. I spend my time writing software, and reading about science.

A FEW PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES: (WHO CARES?)

I think I'm patient and reflective.

I've been inventing machines and things for as long as I can remember. I'd like to keep doing that forever.

I've always had this feeling like I could reinvent the world if given a chance. Like the song "if we through it all, my way, things can only get better" (Howard Jones I think).

I don't like conforming to expectations. If there's a way to do something that no one has tried, I'd rather do it that way.

INTERESTS AND HOBBIES

I like putt-putt golf and crockett. I love games like crockett, where you make up the rules as you go. It's a great learning experience when you play with people who care about rules and fair play and also want to win.

I really enjoyed the video game "boulderdash". I've always wanted to put together an arcade video game. So far, I've only built pieces.

I love reading about nanotechnology, and evolutionary biology, and computing devices, and robotics, and design contests, and virtual reality.

My wife and I enjoy movies. I liked "the matrix", and "real genius", and "what dream may come", and "being john malkovich". I like music by "cure", and "waterboys", and "cardigans", "veruca salt", "eddie brickell", "talk talk".

I really enjoy philosophy. The kinds I like are "evolutionary epsitemology", "poper falsifiability", "computational cosmology", "quantum many worlds", "consciousness explained", "viruses of the mind", "rand heresy", and similar stuff.

I'm really into adaptive machines. I've studied neural networks, genetic algorithms, classifier systems, self configuration. In science fiction, whenever you put two machines together, they learn to talk to each other and start working together. So far, machines don't do this, but they should.

FRIENDS AND FAMILY

http://www.duane.com/~dduane/

http://home.sprintmail.com/~humphreynash/

http://www.dalesparty.com/

http://www.delisheries.com/

http://www.squeak.org/us/ted/

http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/~peter/

http://www.clearlake.ibm.com/houston/openjustice.html

Don Lavoie http://www.gmu.edu/news/gazette/0112/obituaries.html http://psol.gmu.edu/psol/degree2.nsf/People%20Frameset?OpenFrameSet

Howard Baetjer http://www.towson.edu/~baetjer/

Bill Tulloh

Kevin Lacobie

Jim Trefil, Robinson Professor of Physics, George Mason University Harold Morowitz, Director, The Krasnow Institute

http://www.fentonia.com/bio/ http://www.sri.com/policy/ctl/html/fenton.html

Mitch Potter http://cs.gmu.edu/~mpotter/

Bill Spears http://www.cs.uwyo.edu/~wspears/

Alan Schultz http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/~schultz/

Dr. Jayshree Sarma

John J. Grefenstette
http://www.ib3.gmu.edu/people/faculty/grefenstette.html
mark miller dean tribble robin hanson

brian sletten

FAVORITE WEBSITES

http://www.extropy.org/ http://www.frams.poznan.pl/ http://alife.santafe.edu/alife/software/ http://hanson.gmu.edu/altinst.html

combinators

http://www.positiveatheism.org/faq/faq1113.htm