I am a recent master's graduate in CS. Here you will find a collection of my current class work and some other odds and ends. My current intrests in research are visualization, network analysis/simulation, AI/ALife/CAS, and GPU based computation.

Trip to Wisconsin was fun. Christmas was good, New Year's was good.

We had to cancel our snowboarding trip to Wolf Creek on Saturday because they only had a 30 inch base and hadn't gotten any snow in over a week. We weren't too interested in a 8 hour round trip car ride to ride on hard-packed old snow. There is hope though! This morning as I was walking into my building it was snowing, and there was snow on the Sandias!!! Maybe we'll be able to get some snowshowing in soon.

Big news lately has been our purchases... We bought a new bed (yay!) last weekend, and a sofa this weekend. Our house will finally start looking like a civilized home soon!

The JOGL graph viz work is progressing fairly nicely I think. I sent some images off to one of my managers last week but haven't heard a comment back yet. Hopefully they are liking my work.

Graduation was good. Beer was good. Family was good.

Now that I have the Master's degree behind me I am seriously considering re-applying for a PhD. I am only 18 hours, a dissertation, and the comps away from a PhD at this point. We'll see what happens I guess...

I finished the port of our project to the JOGL JSR-231 beta today. Only one minor bug left but I believe that it is a bug in the JOGL implementation. Now it's time to get back to working on the graph viz part.

I really need to get around to fixing my other website. It's collected dust far too long now in my opinion.

I got a letter several weeks ago telling me that my thesis was fully accepted, so I am now good to graduate! This weekend is the commencement ceremony and my folks are coming into town to watch me walk.

On other fronts, I am currently working on a large graph visualization API in java using JOGL. Java has frustrated me a bit because it is even bigger (memory wise) and slower (computational speed wise) than I had previously thought. Up to this point I had mostly written "toy" applications that made very little demand on the CPU or memory and found java pleasant because it made cute interfaces and interactivity fairly simply.

We also had our first snow of the season two days ago! How exciting! Time to break out all the winter sports equipment! Hopefully I will get some pre-season back-country riding in with Clint before we leave for Wisconsin.

I successfully defended my thesis on Graphics Processing Unit Computation of Neural Netoworks last Tuesday. The paper turned out pretty well and the presentation went very smooth. I have uploaded a copy of my thesis to my publications list. This week I hope to get 5 copies printed and submitted to OGS.

Ed and Tom both asked me about publishing technical papers based on my research and I think this would be a good idea. Hopefully in the next few weeks I will have a draft to them and will be well on my way to a publication in a journal.

Last week I started a new job at Respec as a contractor for Sandia National Laboratories. I will be working on visualization of very large graphs involved in the simulation of very large critical infrastructures.

Well, I got my draft back from Ed and it looks pretty good now. Minor changes for the most part. He did point out that I need to add a bit more introduction about what a neural network is, so I will be trying to get this done today. Still have not cleaned up the bibliography. As usual life struck and I got all caught up in trying to get some projects wrapped up to a nice level of completion. I need to get at least these revisions wrapped up so that I can get a copy of my paper to Tom and George for their first review passes.

Last week I passed another draft of my thesis to my advisor. I've put all the new graphs in, added all my source code in appendices, and tightened the paper up. I still need to clean up the bibliography, but I expect to have that mostly done tomorrow.

I have completed my first draft of my thesis. Due to some scheduling issues I couldn't defend this summer, so my work has slowed down a little bit. I expect to have a second draft to my advisor within the week.

The thesis work continues. Got my results back for the ATI card. I'll post some graphs later.