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Jonathan Barber, in the Flesh;Pooooooooooooooch!;;That's me.;Jonathan Barber;5133 Upson Hall;255-9189;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.;Two Parallel Implementations of Continuous Media RivL;An Improved-Implementation of an Object Tracker in RivL;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:;George Bush;, or as I; like to call him, Captain Swirl .; He's nefarious with a toilet.; Sugata Mukhopadyay; Boney Magoo;Fletop; Bigro; Dave Koster, the bot of all bots.;Ponch's official TFFL Bullie's Home Page;uuencoded Graphics needed for Bullie's Page;tar and zipped Graphics needed for Bullie's Page;If you're browsing, and feeling the urge to;write, send me some mail.;Downloads;graphics;barber.gif;ponch.html;res_html;res_cur;emmitt1;emmitt12;