User:Mike Van Emmerik

Userboxes This user comes from Australia. prog This user is a programmer. This user enjoys reading science fiction. This user supports the use of wind power, solar power, and electric vehicles. ?met? This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans and Brits have such a hard time with them. This user is skeptical of the Zodiac.

I am currently an electronics technician for the Queensland University of Technology. In 2007, I completed a PhD on "

". I have a decade of experience as an

software engineer

. My main interest is in low level programming, particularly disassemby and decompilation. I am the main contributor to the DeCompilation Wiki, though I don't have any time lately to keep it up to date. I was also co-author of the Boomerang open source machine code decompiler.

I've been playing with microprocessors since 1975; I've been involved with the

, 2650, Z80, 6502, 6809, 68000, Z8000 and Intel x86/Pentium processors, and others.

In an earlier phase of my life, I was interested in the mathematics of gambling. I attempted to beat three casino games: Blackjack (with card counting), Roulette (with physical prediction), and

. Third time lucky, I made a comfortable profit from VP, until the local casinos (in Queensland, Australia) pulled the machines in favour of with higher returns for the casinos.

I enjoy

, but again time is too short for anything meaningful of late. I'm fascinated by the ideas of Marshall Brain's Robotic Nation, particularly his Manna online book.