huffman
family
My Immediate Family
For the past several years, I’ve written a generic year-end
Christmas/Hanukkah/Ramadan/Kwanzaa/Solstice/Diwali/Festivus holiday
letter to family and friends. Now total strangers can peruse them:
David Huffman
My late uncle, David Huffman, is famous (at least in geeky circles) for
the Huffman Coding
algorithm.
Scientific American wrote
an article on him years ago. While at the University of California at
Santa Cruz, he wrote an
autobiography
for prospective college students. He won an
IEEE medal in 1999 for his lifetime
achievements. When he died, I wrote a short
elegy.
Me
I have written a short
biography with
personal details and have a page with my favorite
quotes. For a more timely status on what is
going on in my life, have have a
blog.
I have a professional
résumé [PDF] in case you want to
hire me; I even written
award-winning
code, but it is not indicative of my customary talents.