Contact Info

office: ACES 6SEo4B Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italia
email:jmn (at) cs (dot) utexas (dot) edu
web:http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jmn
headphones: streaming audio | Black Box Recorder | Hospital Records | etc.
Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italia

Work

I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science, at The University of Texas. My advisor is Lorenzo Alvisi, and I'm broadly interested in fault-tolerance and wait-free synchronization—specifically, in regards to robust multithreaded applications. Here is a (short) list of my publications. Currently, I'm a member in decent standing of LASR.

Diversions

Linguaphiles: Merriam-Webster | Wordsmith | OED | random interesting word
News: Slashdot | NY Times | Rachel Maddow | The Times | Corriere della Sera
Comics: User Friendly | Sinfest | Get Fuzzy | Calvin & Hobbes | Penny Arcade | The Boondocks
Web compendia: Arts & Letters Daily | SciTech Daily
Magazines: openDemocracy
Humor: The Onion
Columns: I, Cringely | Savage Love
Movies: MNMN

"I developed the GNU system so we could use computers in freedom. I would like it to bring freedom to as many people as possible, but it would be self-defeating to seek popularity by sacrificing freedom."

—Richard Stallman, Forbes Online, March 21, 2006