This little bio is primarily for the event that anyone using a search engine to find me can through using related keyords of places I've been.

I grew up in New Rochelle, New York (just north of da Bronx), a typically boring suburb, and went to New Rochelle High School. My parents have since moved to Venice, Florida, and my brother to NYC, so I have little remaining contact with New Rochelle.

The more idyllic days of my childhood were spent hiking and fishing in the hills around Kunkletown, Pennsylvania, a small town one the east end of the state in the Blue Mountains south of the Poconos.

I went to Northwestern University near Chicago, where I received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Psychology, focusing primarily on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Psychology.

My senior year I had visions of me standing on Sheridan Road outside of campus with all my bags packed in a pile around me, a degree in my hand, and not a clue of where to go. I figured I'd delay that, and get out of the midwest... So after graduation, I spent 4 months bicycling around Europe, alone, covering over 4,000 kilometers, visting family in southern Italy, riding north into Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia (Czech republic), former East Germany, West Germany, Holland, Belgium and France. Eventually I may put some stories about the trip, and routes travelled along with pictures in the web site. If you'd like more info on traveling by bicycle in Europe, please e-mail.

After wandering about, I found a job with Alex Waibel at the Universität Karlsruhe , in Germany, working as a member of the Interactive Systems Laboratory, on the Janus Project, working on machine translation of spoken language. I worked there from May 1992 -- July 1993. Karlsruhe had a great movie theater, Schauburg, which showed a great variety of movies, many many different ones each week, some new, some old, all great.

After a year in Karlsruhe, I returned to Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, and worked at the Center for Machine Translation where I continued to work on the Janus project, until August 1994. I really liked Pittsburgh, whereas many who lived there seemed to be aching to escape.

From August 1994, to 2004, I was a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in the Computer Science department. I worked with Dan Jurafsky in the Linguistics Department, on speech recognition.

Summer 1995, I was an intern at Apple Computer's Speech Labs in Cupertino CA, working on a speech recognition project, and living in San Francisco.

Summer 1996, I worked at Berdy Medical Systems, in Boulder Colorado, with Wayne Ward which is integrating speech recognition technology into their software that allows physicians to dictate medical reports directly into their computer, bypassing the costly and lengthy task of transcribing recordings.

Summer 1997, I was at The Center for Language and Speech Processing Summer Workshop at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

In 2005, I moved to California to work for Google.