Steve Hanov's Home Page

Last updated March, 2009. Click here for the 1997 version

Contact

You can email me at steve.hanov@gmail.com.

Technology Blog

Including entries on:

A rhyming engine
An algorithm for finding words in phone numbers
A program that lets you draw waveforms and hear how they sound
An HTML/JavaScript/CSS Pretty Printer

Research

I am pursuing a Masters of Computer Science, part time, at the University of Waterloo. My supervisor is Steve MacDonald.

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.

Current Interests

Here's a list of stuff that I'm working on:

Wavelets - Right now I'm obsessed with wavelets and their potential use in audio processing. See my web page on Wavelet sound Explorer

Music

I used to dream of being a composer of film scores. I enjoy the music of John Williams, and Danny Elfman, and Cliff Eidelman's work on Star Trek VI. Unfortunately I don't have the patience to learn to play an instrument, I got up to Grade 4 piano before I stopped. Here's some music that I composed using Cakewalk music software.

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

I drew a comic strip for Imprint, the University of Waterloo student newspaper. After I got a job at Research in Motion, I continued it there for a while. All strips are archived here

Budgie-ZILLA!

I made a web page once called Budgie-Zilla. I can't access it any more to change it, but here's a link to it. There are pictures of gigantic birds destroying landmarks. Apparently it's a part of budgie pop-culture now. The site is mentioned in a book about trademark law, and it has inspired a youtube video.

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.
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.
Research in Motion, Sept. 2003 to 2009
In my first full time position, I created large chunks of the EDGE and UMA protocol stack.