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* 10/10 - {{a|Alastair Reynolds}} - [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?23075 Redemption Ark] | * 10/10 - {{a|Alastair Reynolds}} - [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?23075 Redemption Ark] | ||
Revision as of 20:47, 4 January 2011
Founder of the ISFDB.
Biography
I was born in California in 1956. My father was in the Air Force, so we lived in various places like Texas, Minnesota, Illinois, Washington D.C., Turkey, Oklahoma, and Alaska. I was in the US Navy for 9 years, and I had the pleasure of working in places like New Jersey, Diego Garcia (launching weather balloons), San Diego, Texas, Illinois, and Guam (doing top secret weather forecasts. No, really - Top Secret codeword weather forecasts).
I went back to college in 1985, and obtained a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. I worked as a slave laborer for a small startup for one year, then started working at Motorola in 1990 as part of the Motorola Computer Group. I worked on networking stacks for the first couple of years, and I used to have daily arguments with Eric Bina about whether certain bugs were in his X-Windows implementation or my socket interface - until he left for the NCSA and co-wrote Mosaic. We were running Mosaic and httpd locally back when there were no web sites to visit but our own internal ones, and there were no books on how to write HTML (it's okay - I put the HTML manual on part of a Postit note).
I started building simulators in 1994 to monitor system performance. In 1997 they moved our site into the Cellular division, and we started building simulators of cell phones. In 1998 I was turned to the dark side and began to manage the Platform Simulation team. I'm a Motorola Science Advisory Board Associate and a Dan Noble Fellow. I work in Austin, Texas and live on 14 acres about 5 miles east of Georgetown, Texas.
LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/alvonruff
Regular Places I Need to Visit
- Awards
- ISFDB:Moderator_noticeboard
- ISFDB:Data_Consistency
- ISFDB:Beta
- Bibliographic Projects in Progress
- ISFDB Bug List
- ISFDB Feature List
- Bibliographic Rules
Reading List
2011
2010
- 12/21 - Alastair Reynolds - Absolution Gap
- 10/10 - Alastair Reynolds - Redemption Ark
- 08/15 - Alastair Reynolds - Chasm City
- 06/15 - Alastair Reynolds - Revelation Space
- 04/08 - Scott Westerfeld - The Killing of Worlds
- 03/23 - Scott Westerfeld - The Risen Empire
2009
- 12/31 Charlaine Harris - Definitely Dead
- 10/31 Charlaine Harris - Dead as a Doornail
- 07/10 Charlaine Harris - Dead to the World
- 04/26 Charlaine Harris - Club Dead
- 04/22 Charlaine Harris - Living Dead in Dallas
- 04/16 Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark
- 04/10 Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass
2008
- 11/03 - Richard Morgan - The Steel Remains.
- 08/29 - Mike Brotherton - Spider Star.
- 08/13 - Charles Stross - Saturn's Children.
- 07/30 - John Meaney - Context.
- 07/18 - John Meaney - Paradox.
- 07/11 - John_Meaney - Bone Song.
- 07/03 - Joel_Shepherd - Crossover.
- 06/03 - David_Gunn - Maximum Offense.
- 04/23 - Richard_Morgan - Thirteen.
- 04/11 - Peter_F._Hamilton - The Dreaming Void.
- 03/27 - Charles_Stross - Halting State.
- 03/23 - Ken_MacLeod - The Execution Channel.
- 03/18 - Iain_M._Banks - Matter.
- 03/03 - Peter_F._Hamilton - The Naked God.
- 02/12 - Peter_F._Hamilton - The Neutronium Alchemist, Part Two: Conflict.
- 02/05 - Peter_F._Hamilton - The Neutronium Alchemist, Part One: Consolidation.
- 01/29 - Greg_Egan - Distress.
- 01/26 - Robert_Charles_Wilson - Axis.
- 01/21 - Peter_F._Hamilton - The Reality Dysfunction, Part Two: Expansion.
- 01/14 - Peter_F._Hamilton - The Reality Dysfunction, Part One: Emergence.
- 01/07 - Robert_A._Heinlein - Glory Road.
2007
- 12/30 - Greg_Bear - The Forge of God.
- 12/23 - Arthur_C._Clarke - Childhood’s End.
- 12/21 - Peter_F._Hamilton - Judas Unchained.
- 12/09 - Peter_F._Hamilton - Pandora's Star.
- 11/26 - David_Gunn - Death's Head.
- 11/23 - Richard_Morgan - Woken Furies.
- 08/18 - Neal_Asher - Africa Zero.
- 08/11 - J._K._Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
- 07/31 - Neal_Asher - Hilldiggers.
- 07/01 - Richard_Morgan - Broken Angels.
- 06/25 - Michael_F._Flynn - Eifelheim.
- 04/20 - Peter_Watts - Blindsight.
- 02/04 - John_C._Wright - Orphans of Chaos.
- 01/28 - John_C._Wright - The Golden Transcendence.
- 01/21 - John_C._Wright - The Phoenix Exultant.
- 01/13 - John_C._Wright - The Golden Age.
2006
- 12/24 - Charles_Stross - Singularity Sky.
- 12/10 - Richard_Morgan - Altered Carbon.
- 11/19 - Neal_Asher - Prador Moon.
- 11/11 - Neal_Asher - Polity Agent.
- 11/05 - Neal_Asher - The Voyage of the Sable Keech.
- 10/21 - Neal_Asher - Brass Man.
- 09/29 - Neal_Asher - The Line of Polity.
- 09/12 - Neal_Asher - Cowl.
- 08/27 - Neal_Asher - The Skinner.
- 08/06 - Neal_Asher - Gridlinked.
- 07/09 - Ken_MacLeod - The Cassini Division.
- 07/01 - Ken_MacLeod - Learning the World.
- 06/17 - Robert_Charles_Wilson - Spin.
- 06/01 - John_Scalzi - Old Man's War.
- 05/30 - Ken_MacLeod - The Stone Canal.
- 05/14 - Vernor_Vinge - Rainbow's End.
- 05/07 - Vernor_Vinge - A Deepness Upon the Sky.
- 03/21 - Stephen_King - Cell.
- 01/02 - Iain_M._Banks - Inversions.