About

Personally, I’m Dave Dolan. I’m 27 years old, I’ve earned a BS in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. (As well as a [very] minor in mathematics.) I still live in small town PA, 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 21 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, two year old son and a brand new daughter… 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. I’ve become enamoured of the concept of Associative databases lately, and in fact a lot of my personal coding, and even a large degree of my professional focus has turned to associative technology, almost completely replacing any use I’d find for Relational databases. I’m working alongside some really brilliant chaps from Canada and using their implementation of an Adbms called Relavance. (associativesolutions.com) I can’t wait to be able to tell the world when I complete some of the big projects I’m working on using their technology, not only for my sake; I feel that their goods are adding to the state of technology as a whole, and if marketed correctly could change the world and data management forever.

Just finishing up teaching a class at a community college on Associative Data Modeling, and it’s great to be finally spreading the word an wisdom of Associative technology. This Associative Memory that I speak of is not what some CS folks call Neural Networks, that’s another use of the same term… But this is quite literally an associative model for memory, as in database. I will do a full write up on it one day, but I’m waiting to put a lot in to it, because I want to do the science justice. So excuse me for a bit as I glance over the topic now and then in my posts without fully explaining the idea.