Picture of me - Vancouver, BC, Aug 2004

Where am I?

Paul Hubbard's new home page as of October 2004. If you want to reach me, my email is hubbard at sdsc dawt edu. Pardon the lack of a mailto link, but I've gotten rather a lot of spam even with an obfuscated URL.

My office phone is (858) 822-0913, I'm located in Calit2 (also known as Atkinson Hall) 2601.

If you're visiting, here's an interactive map of UCSD with Atkinson highlighted.

The view from my office

Cron-fetched image from an Axis 223m in my office, reduced to 800x600 with a privacy overlay covering the office across from me:

Axis image

Who am I?

Whenever Google lands me on a new web page, I often wonder who the author is. Jakob Nielson puts it better:
That said, the basic rationale for "about us" translates directly into the need for an "about me" page on a weblog: users want to know who they're dealing with.

It's a simple matter of trust. Anonymous writings have less credence than something that's signed. And, unless a person's extraordinarily famous, it's not enough to simply say that Joe Blogger writes the content. Readers want to know more about Joe. Does he have any credentials or experience in the field he's commenting on?

After reading that article, I went back and re-did my home blog and this page as well, adding a picture and a link to my CV. I'm not currently looking for work, but if you want more info please see my LinkedIn profile page.

How about a better picture, then?

Here you go, album and context are here.

Social networks

I'm not sure if any of these are actually useful, but how can you tell without trying, right? I usually use MoodBlast to push updates, so most of them duplicate my Twitter updates.

  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter and twittervision

    • Current work

    As of March 2009, I'm working on the OOI project, hacking Python, OpenDAP and netCDF and having a blast. More links and info as I learn more - we don't have a web front end for our Git repository yet.

    Previous work

    From 7/07 to 2/09, I worked on the CLEOS project, primarily as Co-PI on an NSF network data streaming grant, known as an SDCI grant. The main project page is at dataturbine.org and the main code pages are at dataturbine.googlecode.com (server) and oss-dataturbine.googlecode.com (clients, sources). I moved our code from local hosting to Google Code in May 2008, and it's been killer - fast, only down once, and their wiki + issue tracking are first rate. Much better than the gforge-based local server we were using before that.

    I've also started a page of misc current work - Sun T2000 pictures, not much else. Those are linked here.

    I've become a fan of work blogs, they're useful for "What's he been working on?", keeping in sync with co-workers and of course when you need to write work reports. You can see my DataTurbine work blog here.

    Project pages

    All the work I do is open-source. For various reasons, it's scattered across various Subversion repositories. Here is an incomplete list:

    I have several projects on neesforge that are active: (obsolete or dead ones omitted)

    1. Java driver for Apple laptop accelerometer
    2. Java - "hello world" for DataTurbine
    Google Code project hosted:
    1. dataturbine.googlecode.com (server)
    2. oss-dataturbine.googlecode.com (clients, sources)

    Google code, non-work-related:

    1. Driver for Omron HJ-720ITC pedometer
    2. Awk, Line counting for C/C++ (also works ok on Java)
    3. Perl, break in a new disk drive
    4. C++, multithreaded code for the ABC conjecture
    (There's also a collection of snippets here though some are now on gcode.)

    My NEESgrid/NEESit work is in their Subversion server, mainly the following although there are bits scattered around:

    1. C++, hybrid simulation, see this link and this link for details.
    2. LabVIEW, 'neesdaq' code for streaming data, remote control of multi-axis stepper systems, data acquisition and much more.

    Old stuff

    You can see more detail on the CV, but here's a rough reverse-chronological set of links.

    From 10/2004 to 6/2007, I worked in the NEESit group here at SDSC. This is an NSF project for a national earthquake engineering grid.

    Here are links to my NEESit work:

  • My NEESit work
  • Hybrid simulation weblog (Setup and run by me, now handled by Charlie Cowart)
  • I wrote a big stack of docs and whitepapers, those are here.

    • From 2/2002 to 10/2004 I was at Argonne, also working on NEES. (Actually, I was on the predecessor project, NEESGrid.)

  • Previous work from Argonne

    Non-work-related stuff

  • Personal blog, self-hosted on ADSL.
  • Experimental microblog, 3/26/08, self-hosted.
  • Personal site, hosted on my ADSL connection.
  • Unofficial NEES safety tips, a hilarious comics page spoofing DHS, by Laura Pearlman of ISI.
  • NEESGrid commemorative attire, mugs, etc I got bored one day and set up t-shirts and such on CafePress, mostly insider jokes about the Mini-MOST development.

    • Friends

    SusanR has moved - Susan's new home page and elementary education page are now up and quite content-packed.

    Two good friends of mine, Pawel Plaszczak and Rich Wellner, have written a book called Grid Computing: The Savvy Manager's Guide. I used to work with both of them at Argonne and expect that their book is excellent.