nicholas matsakis

father to Peter and Alexander, husband to Terri, software engineer, web developer, researcher, graduate student, and computer enthusiast. I am currently completing my doctorate in computer science at MIT CSAIL. I keep a personal weblog.

Research projects I've worked on include: the Natural Log mathematical handwriting recognition engine; the Awarenex and Lilsys telepresence and awareness systems. My graduate research is in duplicate detection in semi-structured data using nonparametric Bayesian models.

From 2006 to 2008 I worked on web technologies for Novell including: the Bongo mail and calendar server when it was known as Hula; Mockingbird, a Firefox extension that emulated Internet Explorer APIs and behaviors to support legacy web applications; and a Firefox extension that provided support for MHTML web archives.

I also have a neglected collection of software projects and hacks.