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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 22:50:46 GMTServer: NCSA/1.4.2Content-type: text/htmlLast-modified: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 23:09:35 GMTContent-length: 6280<html><head> <title>Michael VanHilst</title></head><body><h1><a name="top">Michael VanHilst</a><br><em><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><!WA0><a href="http://cs.indiana.edu/finger/gateway?vanhilst@cs.washington.edu">vanhilst@cs.washington.edu</a></em><br><em><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><!WA1><a href="http://cs.indiana.edu/finger/gateway?vanhilst@cs.washington.edu">mvh@cfa.harvard.edu</a></em><p><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><!WA2><img src=http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/vanhilst/skiing.gif><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><!WA3><a href="#personal">Personal</a>,<!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><!WA4><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/vanhilst/research.html">Research</a></h1><p><address> <!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><!WA5><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/">Computer Science & Engineering Department</a> <br> <!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><!WA6><a href="http://www.washington.edu/">University of Washington</a> <br>Box 352350 <!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><!WA7><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/area/">Seattle, WA</a> 98195-2350 USA</address><br><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><!WA8><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/unrestricted/mailto.pl?to=vanhilst@cs.washington.edu&sub=web-msg">Click here to send an email message to Mike VanHilst</a>.<p><hr> <p><h1><a name=personal>Personal</h1>Mike is starting his 7th year as a graduate student at the University of Washington. Hopefully, with a little luck he will be finished around theend of the winter quarter.<p> Immediately prior to coming to UDub Mike worked as a contractor at<!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><!WA9><a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/">IBM Research</a> where he wrote <!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><!WA10><a href="http://web1.osf.org/motif/index.html">Motif</a> widgets for the user unterface of IBM's<!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><!WA11><a href="http://www-i.almaden.ibm.com/dx/">Data Explorer</a>.<p>Mike got his start as a programmer in 1981 while fixing and maintainingcomputer hardware for the <!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><!WA12><a href="http://sao-www.harvard.edu/sao-home.html">Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory</a>, which is part of the <!WA13><!WA13><!WA13><!WA13><!WA13><a href="http://www.si.sgi.com/">Smithsonian</a>, but located within <!WA14><!WA14><!WA14><!WA14><!WA14><a href="http://www.harvard.edu/">Harvard</a>.Learning to debug software was the only way Mike could convince the programmers that the hardware really was working correctly. Mike stayed at the Smithsonian for 8 years, during which time he wrote a program called <!WA15><!WA15><!WA15><!WA15><!WA15><a href="http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/saoimage.html">SAOimage</a>which is used by lots of astronomers to look at images. SAOimage is now part of the <!WA16><!WA16><!WA16><!WA16><!WA16><a href="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/GETTING.GNU.SOFTWARE">GNU</a>distribution. (Mike would like to thank Bill Wyatt,<!WA17><!WA17><!WA17><!WA17><!WA17><a href="http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~eric">Eric Mandel</a>,Joe Schwarz, and <!WA18><!WA18><!WA18><!WA18><!WA18><a href="http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/mink.html">Doug Mink</a>for starting, guiding, and continuing the project,not to mention countless others who contributed).<p>In 1986, Mike took a year off to work with a group of <!WA19><!WA19><!WA19><!WA19><!WA19><a href="http://geosp6.ipgp.jussieu.fr/index_GB.html">seismologists</a>in Paris, France, doing data acquisition, calibration, and analysis. He had a truly wonderful time in <!WA20><!WA20><!WA20><!WA20><!WA20><a href="http://www.city.net/countries/france/paris/">Paris</a>. He met his wife, Luz Angela, in a French language class at the<!WA21><!WA21><!WA21><!WA21><!WA21><a href="http://www.paris.alliancefrancaise.fr/">Alliance Francaise</a>.Luz Angela had come to Paris that year from her native <!WA22><!WA22><!WA22><!WA22><!WA22><a href="http://www.sangamon.edu/colombia">Colombia</a>in South America.<p>In the summer of 1994, Mike wrote a front end to let studentsbrowse the University's time schedule data base through UWIN.He had fun working with the very talented staff at <!WA23><!WA23><!WA23><!WA23><!WA23><a href="http://www.washington.edu:1183/cac_docs/guide/index.html>Computing and Communications</a> (the folks who brought you <a href="http://www.washington.edu:1183/pine/">pine</a>.)Special thanks to Bill Shirey, who did most of the design, and Tracy Stenvik, who wrote the UWIN screen library.(If you are on a UW machine, you can run <!WA24><!WA24><!WA24><!WA24><!WA24><a href="telnet://uwin.u.washington.edu/">UWIN</a> here.)<p>In between working on the time schedule Mike also taught beginning programming, through the UW Extension, to a very motivated group fromMicrosoft product support who sacrificed their summer to learn C.<p>Recently Mike has presented papers at the<!WA25><!WA25><!WA25><!WA25><!WA25><a href="http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~takuo/ISOTAS96/">International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software(ISOTAS'96)</a>,<!WA26><!WA26><!WA26><!WA26><!WA26><a href="http://www.acm.org:8005/sigplan/oopsla/oopsla96/oopsla96.html">ACM Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'96)</a>, and the<!WA27><!WA27><!WA27><!WA27><!WA27><a href=http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/vanhilst/http://www.csl.sri.com/sigsoft96/>ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'96)</a>He also presented a poster at OOPSLA'95, made presentations at the Subjectivity Workshops at OOPSLA'94 and OOPSLA'96, participated in the Doctoral Symposium at OOPSLA'95, and participated in a demo at UIST'96 (thanks Steve).<p>In an earlier life Mike earned BS and MCP degrees in<!WA28><!WA28><!WA28><!WA28><!WA28><a href="http://alberti.mit.edu/arch/arch.html">architecture</a>(the wooden kind) and <!WA29><!WA29><!WA29><!WA29><!WA29><a href="http://alberti.mit.edu/dusp/dusp.html">city planning</a>from <!WA30><!WA30><!WA30><!WA30><!WA30><a href="http://web.mit.edu/">MIT</a>and worked as the Community Development Director forthe city of <!WA31><!WA31><!WA31><!WA31><!WA31><a href="http://www.grin.edu/">Grinnell</a>, <!WA32><!WA32><!WA32><!WA32><!WA32><a href="http://www.infonet.net/iowa/">Iowa</a>.While the things he works on are different now, the skills in visualdesign and problem solving continue to be of value - and he still gets to talk about <!WA33><!WA33><!WA33><!WA33><!WA33><a href="http://www.c2.com/doc/oopsla87.html">Chris </a><!WA34><!WA34><!WA34><!WA34><!WA34><a href="http://g.oswego.edu/dl/ca/ca/ca.html">Alexander</a>.<p>Here in Seattle, Mike has been active in the student chapter of the <!WA35><!WA35><!WA35><!WA35><!WA35><a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/wsa/">Washington Software Association</a>,improving ties between students and large and small software companies in the area. He enjoys hiking, cross-country skiing, <!WA36><!WA36><!WA36><!WA36><!WA36><a href="http://weber.u.washington.edu/~sailing/">sailing</a>, and<!WA37><!WA37><!WA37><!WA37><!WA37><a href="http://weber.u.washington.edu/~pus/cgi/UKC.cgi">kayaking</a>.He also enjoys swimming at Lake Bronson.More recently, Mike's "free" time has been taken up by Marco Harold Sebastien Van Hilst, who was born on May 10, 1996.Mike will post pictures as soon as he locates another photo scanner.<p><hr><p><!WA38><!WA38><!WA38><!WA38><!WA38><img src="http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/speed/nph-count?width=4&link=http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/vanhilst/index.html"></a> visits since 8 November 1996.</body><p> <hr><address><!WA39><!WA39><!WA39><!WA39><!WA39><a href="#top">Michael VanHilst</a> <br>Last modified: Friday, November 8, 1996</address></html>⌨️ 快捷键说明
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