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Who is aburt?
- CEO, TechSoft
- Previously a computer science professor at the University of Denver
- Co-founder and Director of the
Institute for Digital Security
- Science Fiction
author
- Chair,
The Copyright Owner's Control
of Access (COCOA) Association
(Also see
thoughts on copyright
and
ebook (un)availability)
- Creator of the
iFiction site, to enable
authors to sell their works directly to the public
- Vice President,
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Founder & moderator of the on-line
Critters Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Writers' Workshop,
and past president of the
Northern Colorado Writers' Workshop
- Co-author of Atlanta Nights by "Travis Tea,"
one of
the absolutely worst books ever written
(by design!)
- Software Consultant
- Open Source (and Open Fiction) advocate (profiled in
Salon Magazine)
- Founder of Nyx.net, the world's first free Internet service provider (donation funded, & still going strong)
- Inventor of the term Spiders to replace "hackers" and "crackers"
- Parrot Parent
- International Cable TV star
- Pinball Repairman
- Creator of the Programmer's Motto: "It Should Work!" :-)
- Peripatetic Philosopher
- Proponent of "Checks & Balances" Bi-Partisan voting
Research Interests
- Networking, the Internet, Operating Systems
- Cyber-Security
- Automated Explanations of Algorithms
- Computer Algebra / Symbolic Computation
- Social impacts of computing, especially First Amendment issues
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beyond
the last star
a
bird in hand
