Interested in natural language processing, information retrieval/search engines, machine learning, software technology, GIS, start-ups, R&D, innovation, security, UNIX and ethical & social impact of technology.

AI research professor during the day, startup CTO at night, coder, avid reader and book collector.

Wrote my first compiler during high school. Systems I've had a hand in are used by folks ranging from London traders to the Justices of the U.S. Supreme court.