John's Niche in the Library of Babel

So hello! I'm currently the CTO of a chip design company, Chipwrights Inc., in Massachusetts. We're building chips for doing image and video processing using our own parallel DSP. I've been doing chip design since 1981, mainly on processors.

Here are some pages I've done:

• The Redford / Nelson Family Tree
• Doomed Engineers Careers even worse than yours (Jun-2002)
• Reviews and comments:
  • "The Statistics of Deadly Quarrels" Looking at violence from war down to murder in a numerical way (Dec-99)
  • "The Impact of Television" Sociology with a controlled variable! (Jan-95)
  • Fear Goes Up As Crime Goes Down Or so the statistics say...

Here are the sites of some friends of mine:

• Michael Travers, still nostalgic for the Lisp Machine,
• Amy Bruckman, whose inordinate affection for mooses led her to design a virtual community around them,
• The Scoliosis Mailing List moderated by Rich Lethin,
• Richard Treitel, whose transplantation to California only sharpened his British love of the eccentric,

And here are some things I've liked:

Loreena McKennitt Your basic gorgeous Canadian-Celtic-Persian Yeats-loving singer

Viridian Mailing List "As an unnatural shade of electric green" - techno-environmentalism

The North American Sundial Society Enthusiasts about these ancient and beautiful instruments

Mail to: jlr@world.std.com