About me
Research Staff Member
Research lab: Almaden Research Center
I received an A.B. in Computer Science with Physics from Dartmouth College in 1988. Not ready to proceed on to graduate school, I spent the following year in England working with horses, eventually receiving the British Horse Society Intermediate Instructor certification. After a year of cleaning stalls and teaching little kids to ride, the transition to graduate student and TA was a smooth one. I spent the next 6 years getting a PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where I worked in the database group studying how formal data modelling could be applied to visualizing large, complex database schemas.
In 1995 I joined Silicon Graphics to work on MineSet, a very cool product for data mining and visualization. Despite our best efforts, SGI didn't really know what to do with a software product (or much of anything else in that period), so in 1999 I moved to the dot-com Rubric. By 2001, a lengthy series of acquisitions left me at a company called Kana, but with the bust came a series of layoffs that left the company 90% smaller, and prompted my move to IBM Research in 2002.
Since joining IBM, I've worked on ethnographic studies of system administration, prototype end-user programming tools, and worked on several novel features for storage management.
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Last updated 24 Apr 2007