Welcome.

Hi! My name's Doug. This is my page. Stay or go.

I am a grad student in the Computer Science department at Northeastern University. I hope to get a PhD before the end of 2001. My research interests are in the programming language field, especially dynamic collaborative languages (such as mud languages). My thesis is evolving rapidly but will be something related to using reflection and aspect-oriented programming (AOP) techniques to allow tasks to safely interact in the same memory space.

I'm also working as a research assistant for Prof. Karl Lieberherr on the Demeter project. Mainly I do a lot of Java hacking. I write computer programs all day.

If you're in the Boston area, you might want to come to one of several research seminars that are held at Northeastern, or the Dynamic Languages Seminar held at the AI Lab at MIT.

I lead a not-very-busy life.

I used to work at Pure Software, which is now Rational Software (RATL).

Before that I got a bachelor's degree in computer science at U.C. Berkeley, where I was a member of the XCF (my project was a revamping of Brian Harvey's Berkeley Logo interpreter to run as a state machine rather than a meta-circular evaluator) and the CSUA, where I held the office of CSUA Chauffeur.

Some of my family and their projects are on the web. My stepmother co-founded the Garden State Discovery Museum, in New Jersey. One of my uncles has made several recordings of elk bugling in the Rocky Mountain National Park area. He has also sent me some pictures he's taken with his digital camera. And my half-siblings are just very photogenic. Danielle (the one on the left) has her own web page. So does Mark's band.

I have been taking photos with an old 110 camera.

I like music. I conducted a few music polls.

Are the things on this site of value to you? Why not compensate me for them?

I like to play games-- mostly board games, but I'm also playing D&D in David Fristrom's campaign.

I've made some mix tapes of music I like.

Michael Stutz has recently unearthed the GRUNGE-L archive, chronicling the bumper years of the GRUNGE-L discussion list, 1990-1994. For most of that time, it was the most intelligent, well-spoken, and informative email list I knew of, despite it being about some of the most inarticulate, messy, and (usually) rock-stupid music ever produced. The list discussion was also uproariously funny and full of friendly banter and very few flames or hard feelings. Ahh, those were the days...

Check out this freaky optical illusion!

I drive a 1993 Honda Civic.

SF author Neal Stephenson wrote an interesting essay called In the Beginning was the Command Line about the operating system wars, but his web site removed the HTML version and now only provides a badly formatted flat-text version for download; fortunately, I kept a copy of the original.

See if you can spot me in this picture of the crowd at a Poster Children show (this one is easier), or this picture of members of the DroneOn list at Terrastock (or this one from Terrastock 2).

Feel like contemplating infinity?

Check out my playlist at Imagine Radio.



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(This is a cool logo that I did for my xface for the CSUA. Try standing on your head.)
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