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Hi, my name is Andrew Wooster, and somehow you've
found your way to my homepage. For those of you who don't know
me, I recently graduated from Pomona College where I studied Computer
Science. Mostly this meant a lot of time at Harvey Mudd
College taking computer science courses, with the rest of my
courses at Pomona. It also meant a lot of math/theory courses
most Mudders don't have to take.
During the summer of 2001 I worked for Tellme Networks
in Mountain View, CA as an operations programmer
writing tools to help manage, monitor, and maintain the large
Tellme network service. I also took Capoeira under Mestre
Beiçola at Capoeira Narahari in Palo Alto.
As of February 9, 2008, I work for Apple as a Software Engineer at the HQ in
Cupertino, CA working on Time Machine and other stuff.
I also study Capoeira at Capoeira of San Jose.
My own research interests lie in the areas of
Internet and distributed systems (scalability, P2P network
topologies, distributed algorithms, personal Internet
applications, etc), data mining,
semantic metadata, and other subjects of that ilk.
The first real program I wrote was a Perl script that spidered
websites looking for changes. I've since gained a lot of
experience in web-scale
technologies, and can probably explain the intricacies of
spidering the web better than anyone on your staff.
Someday I will put something more up here. In the
meantime, my side-project programming keeps my machines at home
humming full time analyzing large bodies of data looking for
interesting stuff.
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