He is the creator of a popular tutorial on service discovery presented at several leading conferences, including Mobicom. He is primarily a "systems guy," working in mobile computing and wireless networking. His current major interest is interoperability for service discovery. Professor Richard received a B.S. degree in computer science with a minor in philosophy from the University of New Orleans, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the Ohio State University. When he's not hacking, he can be found consuming jazz, cooking, or covered in dirt in his garden.