Jonathan Barber
5133 Upson Hall |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
This page has been up for a while now, so I've felt inclined to change the first sentence.
My birth name is Jonathan Barber, but people usually just call
me Jon (not J-O-H-N!!). People also call me Ponch or
Pooch. People used to call me Lake, Fork, Guppie, Skin Mama, Phin,
and the list goes on and on. I am finishing up my degree as
a graduate student in the Masters of Engineering Program
in Computer
Science at Cornell
University. I was also an undergrad at Cornell, where I got a
BA in Computer Science as well.
I grew up in a couple of towns in New Jersey, and attended
Montgomery High School. I'm currently living in Collegetown which is
adjacent to the Cornell Campus. I'm in a cheap summer sublet on
College Ave, which is ultra-convenient, since I can work and play in
the same half-mile radius.
While a student at Cornell, I went Greek, and spent a lot of time at
Tau Epsilon Phi, a fraternity on the borders of
Cayuga Heights. Its kind of hard to believe that those days are over,
but on the other hand, its about time.
I have finished my Masters of Engineering Project
with
Prof. Thorsten von Eicken, where we developed the U-Net Packet Filter. The
filter works with
U-Net, which is a high-bandwidth network protocol that
can bring parallel computing home to personal computers.
I also taught the 6-week summer session of
CS099: Fundamental Programming Concepts,
an introductory course to computers and programming.
This past year, I was a teaching assistant for
CS314: An Introduction to Digital Systems and Computer Organization.
during
Fall-95 and
Spring-96.
This past semester, I worked a lot on RivL
(A Resolution Independent Video Language),
which is one of the products from the Multimedia Research group at
Cornell. The final product of my labor is two project reports.
In the previous semester,my other good friend, Greg Weber
and I, developed WeBar Encryption
, a smart encryption
protocol for frame-dependent video streams (e.g. MPEG).
Unfortunately, I don't have the paper in electronic form, so
you'll have to trust me on this.
At the end of this summer, I'm packing up my gear,
and taking a permanent road-trip to Oregon
(hopefully with some buddies). If any of you web-surfers are from
Oregon, and have some information you'd like to share
(good or bad), please write me.
Once there, I'll be working for
Intel Corp,
so go ahead and buy a PC.
Clarification: Actually its not the location of
my *house* (as some people have thought).
I would indeed be pretty resourcefull if I set up a camera against my
living room window, and piped it out to this page. No, by *home*, I mean
the general location of where I'll living, not the house.
My comrade-in-Upson, George Bush, has a really nice page,
and in it he keeps a listing of
his favorite people. If you can be found on this page,
you are indeed one of the lucky.
I was also considering keeping a list of my least-favorite
people (you know who your are),
but have decided otherwise.
Ok, here goes:
Ponch's official TFFL Bullie's Home Page
If you're browsing, and feeling the urge to
write, send me some mail.
Downloads
About Me!!!
What I'm doing Now
Course and Research Interests
I have also taken an interest in high performance compilers. My good friend
Sugata Mukhopadhyay and I are still finishing up a
class project, in which we implemented a SMPD code generator
for High-Performance Fortran based on a linear algebra
framework (paper coming soon).The Future Looks Bright, and Wet!
A live picture taken from my future home in Portland!
My Favorite People (who are on-line)
uuencoded Graphics needed for Bullie's Page
tar and zipped Graphics needed for Bullie's Page