 I am 19 years old, a sophomore at Syracuse University majoring in Computer Engineering. My home town is Guilford, CT, a historic shoreline town.I have a wide span of computer interests. I have been programming since seventh grade, and toying with electronics since I was seven. I don't have a single favorite area of computer interest (possibly operating systems?). Even though I am a programmer, I do have a touch of design sense, which forces me to spend five hours on each web page so it looks perfect. : /  My roomate this year is one of my best friends (since nursery school), Josh Weissman. We have similiar interests, similiar names, were born five days apart, and somehow don't kill each other after all this. Check the webcam to see our dorm room, or the view from it.
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I have a Power Computing PowerTower Pro 200, with a 604e CPU running at 200 MHz. It has 80 megs of RAM, three hard drives totaling twelve gigabytes, 8x CD-ROM, Zip, CD-R, and SyQuest drives (DVD is coming very soon!). Accessories include a Color Quickcam (I run a webcam), flatbed scanner, and my 400-watt Dolby ProLigic AIWA AV-X300 reciever/CD changer. Did I leave something out? Ah yes, I also have a Powerbook Duo 270c 24/360 with an Ethernet MiniDock. At school, we have a 10-baseT network on campus, and are connected to a T3 for internet access. When it is on, I run a web server on my computer, jwardell.syr.edu, where you can access the hundreds of megs of space I waste just for you! : ) |
 I am currently majoring in Computer Engineering in Syracuse University's L. C. Smith dept. of Engineering and Computer Science. Yes, I am in the Class of '00.I went through Guilford's quality public shool system, and graduated in the G.H.S. class of 1996 with honors. I played the cello for nine years, including four in the high school orchestra. My technical learning started, well, with Legos when I was two. I toyed with electronics from about age seven till I got my first computer (a Mac Classic) in 7th grade. Then everything took off... I currently know C++, C, Pascal, BASIC, HyperTalk, HTML, and some French. This will only expand, in fact I should be learning assembly this semester. |
This year at college I am working for ResCom, going on calls to give technical assistance to students. This also includes ResNet, the dorm networking at SU. This is also my second year working at Orange Source, a crazy online publication. This past summer (1997) I worked for Heliotrope Studios as an intern programmer for Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain, a commercial computer game to be released in September.The past four summers (1994-1997) I worked at The Place. You know, The Place. It's one of the most unique restaurants you'll ever see. Completely outdoors, you sit on stumps while we cook your food (seafood, corn, steaks) on a huge fire. Oh, and since early 1996 I have been a volunteer (Computing Web Assistant, Apple Forum Consultant) for America Online, writing web pages, reviewing web pages, and keeping up forums. I also beta test Mac calculator link software for Texas Instruments calculators and CoolDVD for E4. |
