3/7/06

I work in the Middleware group here at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). I'm working on middleware for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project.

I started working here at NCSA back in 1995. I was on the worked on the last couple of releases of Mosaic for X-Window Systems. We supported many different UNIX operating systems, including HP-UX, Solaris and of course Linux.

While I was still working on Mosaic, Sun Microsystems released the Java programming language, and the Hot Java browser. I've programming in Java for over 12 years.

Through NCSA, I worked on various additions and fixes for Sun, some of which made it into Java itself, and some of which went into the Hot Java browser.

Chris Heistad and I won Sun's Java 3D programming contest, and I won a programming contest at JavaOne for which I received a lifetime pass, all the Addison-Wesley Java books that were published at the time, a Java jacket, and dinner with James Gosling, the creator of Java.