Re: [mmox] Introductions

[Morgaine Dinova <[e-mail]>]

By way of introduction, I'll just paste the Background section from my user
page at    https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Morgaine_Dinova -- dive in
there for more information or to discuss technical matters outside of MMOX:

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Chronologically, ElecEng grad/honours, PhD in EE/CompSci (concurrency and
parallelism), postdoctoral research (parallel language design), and finally
university lecturer in EE/CompSci for several years. Then left academia to
work in industry with many clients as a freelance contractor. Very diverse
roles in computing: analyst, designer, programmer, systems architect, QA,
technical author, and sysadmin, in subjects including kernel, comms,
drivers, defence, cryptography, engineering support applications (eg. RF
power density displays), GUIs, firewall design and management, network
monitoring and alerts, automating server farm operation, and multi-year ISP
involvement with scalability of services from 64k to 3m users.

Unix-based by preference and experience, ever since Bell Labs sent me the
source tapes and I took up residence on a PDP-11/34. I think that was
somewhere around the Late Jurassic period.

Language agnostic, too many to care, and several created in passing. The
language is not the problem anyway, just a tool with limited scope, so
mix'n'match them to meet requirements. In computing, I take a strong,
component-oriented engineering line: if you are language-centric and are in
denial about interoperation between components from multiple parties written
in different languages, then you're not part of the solution but part of the
problem.

Currently taking an open-ended sabbatical (I've earned it) for AWG/MMOX/etc
--- it seems like a worthwhile goal.

My main focus in the VW landscape is designing for scalability, open
architectures, and high extensibility.

Non-computing interests include many hard sciences and engineering
disciplines, especially nanotechnology and its related areas, as well as
astronomy and astrophysics, and climatology. Ex-member of IEE and IEEE,
ex-radio amateur, ex hang glider, ex guitar player wannabe, and now
enthusiastically into MIDI. I'm a long-term transhumanist, which loosely
summarizes as being interested only in tomorrow, and shedding prior
constraints every midnight. Virtual worlds fit in perfectly.

I'm UK-based, and hate the weather.
 SL resident since 25th August 2004.

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Morgaine.