nicholas matsakis

father to Peter and Alexander, husband to Terri, software engineer, web developer, researcher, graduate student, and computer enthusiast. I split my working days between MIT CSAIL and Novell. I keep a personal weblog.

Projects I've worked on include: the Natural Log mathematical handwriting recognition engine; the Awarenex and Lilsys telepresence and awareness systems; and the Bongo mail and calendar server when it was known as Hula. My graduate research is in duplicate detection in semi-structured data. I also have a collections of software projects and hacks.