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Overview

  • 1 reference
  • Fluent in English; learning Ancient Greek, Arabic, Latin
  • 44, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Software entrepreneur
  • Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan
  • From Detroit, MI, USA
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

(September) Ireland, UK, France, Germany, Pittsburgh (October)

ABOUT ME

I'm a computer programmer, computational linguist, and entrepreneur.

PHILOSOPHY

Be excellent to each other.

Interests

Films (classic, independent, foreign)
Music (indie, folk, electronic)
Playing guitar
Brewing beer
Cooking
Museums
Travel

  • cooking
  • beer
  • movies
  • traveling
  • homebrewing
  • music
  • guitar
  • entrepreneurship
  • languages
  • software

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain), Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey), Wes Anderson (Rushmore), Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life), David Lynch (Twin Peaks)
MUSIC: Sufjan Stevens, Bonnie Prince Billy, River City Extension, Javelin, Philip Glass, Radiohead, Soul Coughing
BOOKS: Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace, Malcolm Gladwell

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was fortunate to work on a project studying ancient carbonized papyrus scrolls from Petra, Jordan.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know and could teach about:
- Latin and Ancient Greek.
- Linguistics and Computational Linguistics.
- Software programming, web application development, Linux, Python (Django), Javascript, etc.
- How to play the guitar.

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