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zacbrown.org
.who? My name is Zac Brown. I am from Texas. I do cool things with computers. I'm a student at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. I'm studying Computer Science and lots of other computer related things (computer engineering, mathematics, etc.), with a primary interest in Software Engineering and Systems programming. I enjoy all sciences. I spend a lot of my time either working, studying, or sleeping. I like computers. A lot. I want to do work and/or research in Computer Science, specifically in compiler/interpreter design, programming language design, parallel algorithms and distributed/reliable systems. I work for a researcher, Dr. Dimitris Papamichail, a computer scientist specializing in Bioinformatics. I have started a project with him to analyze genomes for barcoding and identification purposes. We hope to find whether or not you can learn useful things from such small pairs and possibly determine interesting information by looking at the nucleotide distributions in the particular genome. I have worked as a programmer on various open source project. In the past I have worked with the PowerPC port of Arch Linux. I have also worked on the Wine Project and the GNU PDF project. I am presently re-evaluating my advocacy stance for open source, operating systems. After much frustration and disappointment in the more recent releases of several GNU/Linux distributions, I have ceased actively promoting the use of these distributions. I do not favor any particular operating system on the basis, that they all have major faults that need correcting. During the summer of 2008 I worked as a Software Engineer Intern for Google Inc. My manager was Dan Kegel. I worked on the Wine Project to help develop an implementation of WinHTTP, a missing library that is largely used by Google products. My primary goal during this internship was writing unit tests to assist other developers in implementation of the library. Resume and references are available upon request.
.what? This is a list of links to Free, Open Source or Research projects that I work on: labs.zacbrown.org - My personal playground, its a work in progress Wine - Developer (pseudo-active) GNU PDF - Developer (active) Arch Linux PPC - Package Maintainer & Developer (inactive) NetLogo Model of Malaria Transmission (past) - A program written to model the transmission of malaria via humans and mosquitos. This project is from research I am doing at the University of Miami. This is a list of completed assignments for course work: JavaScript Quick Sort Implementation JavaScript Hash Table Implementation JavaScript Rotating Tree Implementation - Portrayed as a game, but the underlying algorithm is similar to a splay tree. JavaScript Longest Common Subsequence Implementation svi - A primitive stream editor written C. This is where you'll find my resume, profiles, and my blog in the Free Software realm: My Blog - Largely uninteresting as I am inconsistent about posting to it. Advogato - If you liked my advice, certify me! GNU Savannah Profile - Profile on Savannah.gnu.org LaunchPad Profile - Profile on LaunchPad.net OhLoh Profile - Profile on OhLoh. This profile gives updated information on my commits to Wine. LinkedIn Profile - Profile on LinkedIn. It represents a fairly complete resume of my past work. Twitter - Profile on Twitter. I occasionally post interesting things, usually in the realm of compilers or systems programming. FriendFeed - Profile on FriendFeed. This is linked with my Google Reader feeds so you can catch what I read here. This is just some personal stuff and items of random interest: Pi - Like pi? Me too, here's a nice wallpaper for widescreen (1680x1050) with pi calculated to 30,000 digits.
.where? These are sites, projects, initiatives, and so on that I think are worth looking at if you haven't already. Google - Can't find it? Use google. Live Mesh - Fantastic synchronization tool by Microsoft. Makes live easy when trying to share things. UM IEEE - Support your local EE/CE/CS junkies! GNU Software - GNU's Not UNIX. Duh. Free Software Foundation - Support free software, I mean seriously, who doesn't like free stuff? Slashdot.org - News for geeks, stuff that matters. Enough said. Think Geek - Don't know what to get a geek? Buy it here. Or buy it and send it to me, I'll make sure he gets it... OSNews.com - Want to know which OS is kicking the shit out of Windows this week? This would be the place to check that. The Onion - Need a break from the boring hum-drum of the corporate world? Don't bother with CNN, read the Onion! AnandTech - Like hardware? Tom's Hardware - How 'bout some more hardware? BOINC - Your computer's getting fat, put it to work here. BOFH - Hate your boss? Need ideas on how to make his life miserable? Look no further than the Bastard Operator From Hell.