Matthew Skala's "about" page

I'm Matthew Skala, the owner and operator of this Web site. This is my personal site, where I post creative writing, political and social commentary, things related to math and computer science, religious material, free software, and anything else that seems worth posting. Send me email if you have anything to say. I'm not always prompt in replying, but do pay attention to all the mail I get, assuming it gets past the spam filter.

Cryptographic keys: PGP 2.6.3 and GnuPG.

As of January 2009, I'm a Visiting Scholar in the Computational Linguistics group at the University of Toronto, and also working as a part-time Postdoctoral Fellow in the Algorithms Group at the University of Waterloo. The Visiting Scholar thing will probably last about six months. My current plan is to take a few months off after that, mostly to be spent writing fiction, and look for my next academic job to start in late 2009 or January 2010. If you've got job opportunities, I'd be happy to hear about them. I've got wide-ranging academic and industrial experience. See my CV.

I am single, and don't want to remain so.

I am not the same Matthew Skala who runs matthewskala.com. His Bacon number is 3; my Erdös number is 3.

I am the same Matthew Skala who was involved in the Cyber Patrol reverse engineering court case, and most other references to "Matthew Skala" on the Net are about me as well. I've been active on the Net since 1993.