Mike Folk

• Senior Software Engineer and Manager of the HDF Group.
  A full-time academic professional of type "research programmer."
• mfolk@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Projects

• The NCSA HDF Project, which I manage.
• Support for HDF in EOSDIS
• Project Horizon (A NASA Digital Library Technology Project)
• Support for Large Data Sets in EOSDIS (A Mission to Planet Earth Research Project funded by NASA)

Bio

• Joined NCSA in '88; head of HDF development since '88.
• Between 1974 and 1988 I taught computer science at Drake Univ. and Oklahoma State Univ.
• Before that it was college (No. Carolina), grad school (U Chicago), high school teaching (Chicago), Peace Corps (Tanzania), and grad school (Syracuse).
• For details, see my vita.

Files

• Book
  • File Structures, co-author Bill Zoellick, Addison Wesley 1991
  • Programs from book: Chapter 2, Chapter 4, Chapter 9.
• Thoughts about levels of complexity and specialization in data types and structures for storing scientific data in files.

Pictures of my family