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That's me.

Jonathan Barber

5133 Upson Hall
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About Me What I'm doing Now Course and Research Interests My Future "Some Cool Dudes"

About Me!!!

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.

What I'm doing Now

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.

Course and Research Interests

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.

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).

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.

The Future Looks Bright, and Wet!

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.


A live picture taken from my future home in Portland!

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 Favorite People (who are on-line)

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
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If you're browsing, and feeling the urge to write, send me some mail.

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