[Vision2020] Poster Biographies --

[Paul Rumelhart]

Good idea, and I hope it catches on...

I am a member of the UI staff, I work in HR (please, no hate mail about 
our benefits and whatnot - I'm just a programmer).  I take care of the 
HR and Payroll modules of our administrative system.  I panic when there 
is a problem with the payroll, and work on other projects when I'm not 
doing that.  Luckily, problems with the payroll don't arise that often.

I grew up here in Moscow (I actually moved here when I was five).  I 
went through public school here and then ended up graduating from the U 
of I in Math and CS, after a couple of years at Annapolis.  I'm a 
computer geek, I spend much of my time programming either at work or at 
home on my own projects.  I'm interested in helping out with a few open 
source projects as well.  I'm continually juggling programming projects 
at home.  Currently, I'm working on a program that will (hopefully) 
learn to play the game of go well, a stocks program, and a "reverse" 
ray-tracer.  Plus a few odds-and-ends type of projects here and there.  
I also spend a lot of time playing around with my linux boxes, which is 
where I do all my programming.

I'm also interested in japanese, both as a language and a culture.  I 
watch a lot of japanese-language movies, sometimes with no subtitles, 
and even understand a phrase here and there.  I also listen to japanese 
music, and find that I can actually stomach their pop scene.  Maybe 
because I can't understand most of it.  Even though I'm over 40, I still 
enjoy playing video games - I just can't fit them in very often.  
Occasionally, I get outside and find that I don't catch fire when under 
the bright sun.  Somehow, I need to work in some more vacation time so I 
can do my favorite thing in the world, which is to sit at a picnic table 
by a river or a lake in the shade and play solitaire until I'm bored 
silly, then just lie down and watch the clouds go by.  That, or play a 
really intense game of Quake at a LAN party.

Paul

Andreas Schou wrote:
> I know what a lot of you do -- philosophy professors, downtown
> business owners, electricians, teachers -- but not everyone, and not
> exactly what. So, out of possibly misplaced curiosity, I was thinking
> of starting a thread for people to tell the Viz  who they are and
> what, exactly, it is that they do.
>
> I was also hoping to go ten minutes without a flame war. Don't know
> that that's going to happen.
>
> -- ACS
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