About

Personally, I’m Dave Dolan. I’m somewhere in the vicinity of 30 years old, I have a BS in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. (As well as a [very] minor in mathematics.) I still live in small town in some nondescript northeastern state, but my programming career has taken me far from home at times. I’ve been coding since I was 10, not that it matters at this point… I’m now past the point at which programming is really an odd skill to have so enough about that. I’ve also been playing the drums for 20-some-odd years, and I’d love to give lessons if I could afford the poor students a steady schedule. Music is my next love after my family and my programming, but I work way too much, and ask my wife and kids.

I have no time for the many many extra things that I’d love to be able to do. I’m interested in all kinds of science, especially the human mind. Language fascinates me. All over the world everyone speaks something, and that to me is absolutely insane. I hope to one day put my computer skills to some good use in the field of linguistics. The things I keep on my radar for that reason : parallelism and neural network computing, pattern detection, resolution, and analysis, as well as a dabbling interest in the origins of words and phrases in any language I can get my hands on. I can read most latin based languages, but I have to admit I only speak English and French with any degree of competency. Nevermind me, how about you?