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I've been doing this software thing for a long time. My claim to fame is being the original author of twm. It originally stood for Tom's Window Manager but was renamed to the Tab Window Manager when the X Consortium became the owner of it back in 1989. I started it in 1987 and it was my first X program. What am I doing these days?

I'm currently employed by Regulatory DataCorp (RDC) where I'm managing technology and trying to write a little code.

Papers and presentations:
An Overview of twm (Tom's Window Manager) - Xhibition '89 Conference Proceedings
swm: An X Window Manager Shell - USENIX 1990 Conference Proceedings
Real World Products And Profiles - Lessons Learned From Complex Industries - atgOpen 2001

Patents I had a hand in:
US05933142: User-controllable persistent browser display pages
US6148298: System and method for aggregating distributed data

Some other recent events:
  • An interview I gave to LinuxPlanet, February 2001
  • That interview bubbled to the home page of Slashdot