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Clustering: I am currently at Sun Microsystems, building parts of the Sun Cluster 3.0 cluster operating system. This grew out of the Solaris MC research project that I worked on at Sun Labs. 

Sprite operating system: I worked on the Sprite project, under John Ousterhout at UC Berkeley, For my PhD thesis, I designed and implemented Sawmill, a logging file system for a high-performance RAID disk array. I also worked on shared memory, distributed file system measurements, and name caching

Cryptography: See how VCR+ code numbers work and how to cryptanalyze the REDOC-III and Madryga algorithms. I've also broken InfoHiway's JavaScript encryption and Jeff Holst's Java PegDeluxe encryption.

Fractals and graphics: Generate fractals from Voronoi diagrams, reciprocals, or fractional powers. My fractals have appeared in The Pattern Book and Computers and the Imagination. See the easy-to-use RBW color space that I invented, and a Java demo

Publications: You can read my publications, as well as my CV in HTML or PostScript

Print appearances 
I have been mentioned in Herb Caen's newspaper column, I had a letter published in Forbes, my VCR+ research has appeared in The Straight Dope, I had a letter on an obscure point of Canadian history appear in the New York Times, and the Journal of Irreproducible Results published my paper on laundry and the origin of color terms. I'm also in the book E-mail Addresses of the Rich and Famous for reasons that are unclear.
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