Welcome to my homepage.  I'm currently pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science at Indiana University in beautiful Bloomington Indiana!

I know, one look at my picture and you're thinking, "How long has that old fart been going to school?" Actually I just started working on my Ph.D. in 2003.  After getting a bachelor's and masters degree in an unrelated field (1984 and 1986 respectively),  I decided to go back for my masters degree in computer science.  Originally I was going to do this in 1986, but my parents and a professor convinced me to try the real world first (I think they were afraid I would pile up too many student loans and then could never afford to leave school).

In 1991 I finally started working on my masters degree in computer science part-time at DePaul University in Chicago. While working full time, gaining a wife, and losing a gallbladder (unrelated events), I finally finished my masters degree in 1996.

Although I should have continued on for a Ph.D. at that point, I had taken six months off to finish my degree after my employer was sold, so I was feeling poor again (student living has that effect). After again working for a number of years, I finally started my Ph.D. in 2003.

I hope to graduate prior to retirement.

At this point I have finished my coursework, and passed my written and oral qualifiers, so as my non-academic friends say, "so all you have left to do is write your dissertation?"

To see what my research is all about, what projects I have been working on, and a list of publications and presentations, please click on the Research menu item.

To see a list of courses I have taken here at IU as well as some projects I have worked on in those classes, please click on the Classes menu item.

If neither my current research nor classes interest you, I started college a couple decades ago as a photography major (no I have not been in school all of my adult life). Some recent and not so recent landscape photos are in the Photography tab.

If you have looked at all of the other stuff and are still trying to pass the time, there are some random thoughts and old christmas letters in the Random link.

If you are still puttering around this site, well I've run out of material to show you, but there is a whole wide world out there on the web. Some destinations I would recommend are listed on the Links menu.
Enjoy the journey.