I live in Waterloo, Ontario, and work at a large technology company in the area. In my free time, I enjoy learning about computer science and creating interesting web applications.

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Research

Here's some papers I wrote for classes:

• Static Analysis of Binary Executables - Applying program analysis to executables.
• Automatic Letter-To-Sound Rules for Speech Synthesis - How to figure out how to pronounce words without using a dictionary. I wrote this after staying up for several nights in a row.
• Type Inference in a Dynamically Typed Programming Language - Using the cartesian product algorithm
• Wavelets and Edge Detection - Introduction to wavelets and their use in multiscale edge detection.

• A Lightweight Window Wrapper - This article was published in the August, 2000 issue of C/C++ User's Journal. It describes how to write the simplest possible object-oriented wrapper for Windows. The magazine paid me $200. In retrospect, I should have been more verbose.

Other pages

• hanovsolutions.com: Some software I wrote, including PhotoWipe and Bansehee Screamer Alarm
• My web-based Message Sequence Chart Generator

Pages of others

• Matthias Wandel If you go to this web site, you will quickly become "stuck" on it and lose all track of time.

Past Interests

Here's a list of stuff that I've worked on:

• Natural Language Processing - I implemented a technique for automatically deriving the pronunciation of words, so I used it to create Rhymebrain.com
• Wavelets - Right now I'm obsessed with wavelets and their potential use in audio processing. See my web page on Wavelet sound Explorer

Music

• Trantor - This is how I think a movie based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire series should begin.
• Space Chickens - The theme to an imaginary Saturday-morning cartoon series.
• Dance of the Cartoon Monsters - Crazy antics.
• Morning in the Forest - Sunrise in the forest, and all the happy creatures are waking up.
• Starlight Starbright - Imagine a child playing on the piano.
• Piano piece - I tried restricting myself to a single instrument. I'm not sure if it's physically playable.
• The Last Willow - A very sad piece.

Comics

Budgie-ZILLA!

Work

• Corel Corporation, Winter and Fall 1999
  On the Text Engines team, I fixed bugs in the text formatter, and added several new features. You can drag text on a path away from the path because of me.
  
• Quack.com, Summer 2000, Winter 2001
  Quack.com (waybackmachine link) was making a phone portal, so you could call up a computer and it would tell you what movies were playing. I made the framework for a voice recognition server.
  
• Soma Networks, Fall 2001
  Soma was making a box that would sit on your desk and give you your phone and internet connection wirelessly. I added the ability to play DTMF tones over the G729 voice codec, by pre-coding them using the reference G729 implmentation from standards. I also fixed a bug in the RTP protocol.
  
• Microsoft, Summer 2002
  As part of the Windows Networking team, I made a Layered Service Provider that overrides the winsock functions to make an IPv6 connection look like IPv4. I don't think it was fully working when I left, and it was probably scrapped. But the chocolate milk was free, I got to do a lot of hiking!
  
• Research in Motion, Sept. 2003 to 2010
  In my first full time position, I created large chunks of the EDGE and UMA protocol stack. EOF );
  

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