Featured Publications
(First Virtual Year One Lessons)
(Ph.D. Thesis, CMU, 1985)
MY Standards Work
Although I’m best known for my work on MIME, the Internet standard that brought multimedia to email and the web, I have published 16 Internet RFC’s and various other standards documents.
other technical publications
As a sometimes-academic, I’ve published dozens and dozens of technical papers, which you can peruse here.
Technical PUNDitry from my MIMecast years
From 2010-2022 I served as Chief Scientist for Mimecast, during which time I wrote dozens of industry commentaries. I’ve dug up over 80 of them, which you can browse here.
my patents
I have 33 patents – 31 US patents and 2 international patents. Some of them are kind of cool.
My Undergraduate work on AI and the human future
As an undergraduate In the 1970’s I was obsessed with how AI would affect the human future, and I have managed to hold onto a few of the papers I wrote then!
My first major Software project
This is the instruction manual for the system I built to automate circulation in the Grinnell College Library circa 1978!
my personal blogging
This is the personal — often very personal — blog I’ve been writing for over 15 years, The View from Guppy Lake.
My Occasional non-technical columns
Over five decades of short-form writing published in the Sun Magazine, The Morris Daily Record, and the Grinnell Scarlet and Black.
My Ancient Science Fiction
In the 1970s and 80s I toyed with becoming a science fiction writer, using my Hebrew name. Some of the stories weren’t too bad, so I kept them!
