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I am currently a researcher at the Intel's Research Lab in Seattle working on facinating ubiquitous computing projects such as Plantcare and Rain. Before that I worked at Yahoo! for two years and Xerox PARC for three. I earned my PhD from the University of Washington in 1997, and my bachelors from UC Berkeley in 1989.
During my stint at PARC, my research was focused on solving problems associated with "big data". Users and applications generate more and more data, faster and faster and it reveals inadaquacies in traditional computing techniques. Capacities and cycle-times are scaling much faster than latencies and bandwiths. This raises a big challenge for the algorithms and architectures we develop. Big data also created conceptual problems for users. Altavista tells me that 246,000 documents matched my query and then shows me the first 10. Just what I wanted. Clearly there is some room for HCI techology which helps people organize, search and visualize large sets of data. While I was at PARC, I had the chance to work with some incredible people including Mike Salisbury, Keith Edwards, Paul Dourish and Ian Smith and publish a whole mess of papers.
At Yahoo!, I worked with Udi Manber and Chi-chao Chang in a small, psuedo-research group.
During grad school, my research was focused on memory system performance of algorithms and structures, lock-free synchronization, and parallel and distributed architectures and systems in general. My thesis research focused on understanding and optimizing the cache performance of algorithms. While at PARC my research focused on how to make the complexities of distributed computing environments easier for users to understand. Since I've been at Intel, the focus has shifted to ubiquitous computing in general andy system support for smart spaces specifically. Check out my Intel Research homepage for more information about my current interests and projects.