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 2010, I'm a part-time postdoctoral researcher at both the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto. In multiple groups at those two places, I'm involved in work on algorithms, data structures, and computational linguistics. This is a temporary arrangement; I have applications in, and am looking at other opportunities, for a longer-term position. I'm most likely interested in academic work but am certainly open to offers from industry. Ideally I'd stay in Canada, and live in a large city, but either of those points is negotiable. What isn't negotiable is that I have to be in a position that involves frequent human contact initiated by others. I spent my entire student career running around knocking on doors, and now I've earned a position that involves people knocking on my door instead.

I've got wide-ranging industrial and academic computing experience. See my CV for more on my background.

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

Social networking, etc.: [Twitter: mattskala] [Facebook: mskala] [Dreamwidth: mskala] [Livejournal: mskala] [Linkedin] [IRC: mskala@irc.freenode.net] [IRC: mskala@irc.oftc.net]

Be aware that I use different social networking sites for different things and depending on the network and whether I know you, I might or might not reciprocate "friend" requests. If I don't recognize your name you'd do well to send me a message when you try to add me.

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.