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Who is aburt?
- CEO, TechSoft (custom web and software design company)
- Founder of the world's first Internet service provider (Nyx.net; free, donation funded, & still going strong; the first ISP of any kind to serve the public, predating other ISPs by months)
- Previously a computer science professor at the University of Denver
- Founder and President, GreenAroundYou.org — check it out and contribute today
- Science Fiction author
- Founder & moderator of the first writers workshop on the web,
Critique.org (AKA "Critters"),
and past president of the
Northern Colorado Writers' Workshop
- Former Vice President,
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
- Genealogy buff; related to
Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower and Jamestown colony, and a signer of the Mayflower Compact. Member of the
Sons of the American Revolution.
Pioneering and freedom-supporting genes which seem to fit who I am.
- Lover of innovation, and chief bottle washer for the
NewNewForum.com
- Creator of the
iFiction site, to enable
authors to sell their works directly to the public
- Chair,
The Copyright Owner's Control
of Access (COCOA) Association
(Also see
thoughts on copyright
and
ebook (un)availability)
- Co-author of Atlanta Nights by "Travis Tea,"
one of
the absolutely worst books ever written
(by design!)
- Open Source (and Open Fiction) advocate (profiled in
Salon Magazine)
- 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 Sailor on the Sea of Humanity
