Todd Hodes received a B.S. with high honors in computer science and applied mathematics from the University of Virginia, and his M.S. and Ph.D in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, completed 2002. He is the author of seventeen refereed journal and conference papers in the areas of networking, mobile computing, multimedia, computer music production, and VLSI CAD. His awards include the Best Paper Award at the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing in 1997 in Budapest, the 1995 California Fellowship in Microelectronics, the 1994 Louis T. Rader Award, and the first-ever full scholarship to the Duke University Summer Computing Program in 1987. He was top scorer at the American Computer Science League (ACSL) All-Star Contest, individual competition, held in Washington, DC, in 1990, after being narrowly defeated the year before in Toronto. Todd is now director of engineering - mobile technologies, and senior scientist, at WaveMarket, Inc., a mobile/cellphone software startup.
Quotes
- web quotes (now largely historic)
- Where there's muck, there's brass.
- One thing about excellence, it's an exclusive club. And it's only for those who really want to pay dues to the shit. My daddy told me when I was a boy, "The only way you can be different from other people is to do some shit they don't want to do" -- Wynton Marsalis
- Happiness is only real when shared.
- "The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others." - the Dunning-Kruger effect
- "Using a key to gouge expletives on another's vehicle is a sign of trust and friendship." --Ignignot, ATHF
- "The Japanese *need* cutting-edge displays like that to keep up with the continuing advances in tentacle hentai technology." --slashdot, +5
- At twenty-nine one exchanges a great vague possibility for a small hard reality
- "Granted, I don't live in the insular Web 2.0 world of San Francisco where everyone Twitters whenever they're not on their Macbook Pros visiting Digg to read about the latest iPhone rumor posted on Engadget." .... Oh, wait... actually, yea, i do.
- In a weird way, the everyday lives of young digital workers undermine the values under which they supposedly toil. Touted as the most renegade -- and entrepreneurial -- generation in years, they are, in traditional labor terms, amazingly subservient: the ideal postindustrial employees. Chained to their keyboards, digital employees paradoxically are the kind of compliant workforce that would have pleased Henry Ford -- or even Chairman Mao.
