User:Don Swartwout

Born in

USA, in 1953. Educated at Kalamazoo College (BA, 1974) and the University of Michigan (PhD, mathematics, 1979). I am married, have three grown children, and live in Columbus, Ohio

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I don't have time to keep up with all the things I'm interested in, which include

technical subjects
- computer science, especially
  - distributed systems
  - distributed programming
  - requirements
  - web services
  - knowledge management, including Wiki
  - programming languages
  - other languages, including HTML, XML, UML
  - database
  - scientific computing
- mathematics
- physics
- chemistry
religion and philosophy
building a better life for as many people as possible
- social justice
- peace
why people behave the way they do
patterns of destructive individual and institutional behavior that I resist as best I can
- racism
- sexism
- classism
- homophobia

Please note that the presence of a topic on this list means that I'm interested in it, not that I claim to know something about it. I do know a little bit about a few things.

I have worked in the software industry for about 30 years.
I have taught
distributed systems and software architecture at Franklin University
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