Current as of (11/06)

WHO:

My name is John Sampson.
Most people call me Jack.
In this matter, conformity is preferred.
Here are pictures of me (the better to stalk me with).

WHAT:

I am an Nth year PhD student at UCSD (for N:= NOW-Fall 2003).
I spent my undergratuate years at UC Berkeley.
In mid-1980 I was an 8lb. 3oz 1 month premie.

WHERE:

I may well be found on campus on the third floor of EBU3B.
I am currently living in an apartment in San Diego.
I like my apartment.

HOW: (to contact me)

e-mail: same username as webspace @cs.ucsd.edu (preferred)
in person: locate the room alluded to in WHERE, or contact me and set a time/place. (acceptable)
personal phone: I have a landline and a cell. Both numbers are available upon reasonable request.

Relevant work, and other notable things I've done.

  • Publications bearing my name in the author list
  • Conference Presentations
  • Workshop papers
  • Teaching
  • Grad classes taken
      Fall 2003:
      CSE 202 (Algorithms)
      CSE 221-a (OS)
      CSE 240A (Architecture)
      Winter 2004:
      CSE 200 (Computability and Complexity)
      CSE 223A (Principles of Distributed Computing)
      CSE 246 (Arithmetic Algorithms and Hardware)
      Spring 2004:
      CSE 210 (Principles of Software Engineering)
      CSE 240B (Advanced Computer Architecture)
      Fall 2004:
      CSE 291 (Topics in Computer Architecture)
      Winter 2005:
      CSE241A (Introduction to Computing Circuitry)
      Fall 2006:
      CSE249A (Rethinking the Hardware/Software Interface)

    • Hobbies and other slacktime activities.

    Vegastrike
    It's an open source video game. My official position with the project is "Minister of Information".

    I like swimming. It's the sort of physical activity you can do for an hour by yourself and not feel like a friendless chump or worry about having to spend a solid hour inside your own head with nothing to do but think. The whole concentrating on breathing air vs. water thing does wonders that way.

    I've been known to play the guitar. (poorly)

    I've been know to write things. (So-So) [Side note - a nearly completed draft of this piece (which prominently features the death of the speaker's friend) was completed about a month before the death of two of my friends. By far, not the best way to gain some level of authenticity.]
    Various strings of words that continue to amuse me:

    "Real men reduce from 3-SAT" (ChristosP)

    "The mass of men lead lives of exceptionally noisy desperation" (Bastardization of Thoreau)

    A few links:

     A blog. It belongs to a friend of mine.

    A selection of my current and former flatmates and roommates: Alex Fabrikant,Bem Ajani Jones-Bey,Steve Vandebogart,Alan Shieh,Aaron Jow

    I'm envious of polyglots. Jeff Schoner is a polyglot. I am not, however, as he claims, jealous - just envious and pedantic.

    I was quite officially inSANE

    Don't touch the MU cows! A cool web page that I can keep hitting the reload button on to see more HKN quotes.

    My other (older) and even more infrequently updated webpage.
    PI