Personal

I made Wordle.

I am married to Katherine McVety. Our son, Gabriel, is 6.

In September of 2003 my family moved from New York City to the Boston area, so that I could start my new job with IBM Research, in Cambridge, with the Collaborative User Experience group.

General Interest

I have played drums for many bands and songwriters, including They Might Be Giants, Lisa Loeb, and Church of Betty. See my unfinished (and unfinishable) discography.

See why we still need human beings to translate between human languages.

If you have a computer, then you need my Babelizer desktop toy.

My collaborations with Golan Levin have attracted a lot of attention. They are the Alphabet Synthesis Machine and The Secret Life of Numbers. I went to Switzerland in May of 2002 to help him prepare for a few performances of Telesymphony at the Swiss National Expo.

Technical Matters

I used to work at netomat.

You might be amused by my little physics simulation toys, which use point masses, springs, and "muscles". Java source code is provided.

PyFilter - A Jython servlet filter.

portalocker.py - A Python module providing cross-platform (posix/nt) flock-style file locking.