wyatt
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After high school, I attended college where I majored in English literature.
I left school after two years in search of high adventure that began on Martha's Vineyard,
continued through factory work, driving an ice cream truck and bartending.
My adventures led to a four year enlistment in the US Navy as an Operations Specialist doing duty on a Forest Sherman class destroyer sailing out of Mayport Naval Station, Florida. In the Navy, my life changed dramatically due to the support and help of many people including a group of kind and honest folks who helped straighten me out.
I left the Navy with my thirst for travel and excitement quenched and returned to school where I completed a BS in Computer Science.
After graduation, I worked in the computer industry for many years in the Washington, DC area. My work experience was primarily with E-Systems (now Raytheon) and TRW (now Grumman) where we researched and built large systems for various unnamed Government Agencies.
While working, I continued my education at Virginia Tech where I received a Master of Science in Computer Science. I began teaching in Virginia at Northern Virginia Community College where I taught introductory Computer Science part time in the evenings.
I have taught Computer Science full time since coming to Clarion University. I have had the opportunity to teach seventeen different courses, five of which I developed and all of which have changed dramatically in my time here. I use the web increasingly in my classes as evidenced by the growing body of pages I am generating. I am, however, skeptical about the web's use as an educational delivery tool.
I have been working on my PhD in Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh for a number of years and am "ABD", but am no longer actively pursuing it. Life has intervened. I still think about finishing the dissertation before I die, although the possibility of a posthumous award is more appealing.
At this point the software that I wrote is terribly outdated...
My area of research has been the visualization of software source code. The visualization process should promote a quicker and more complete understanding of the code and its structure which will lead to faster and more precise location of errors when modifying existing software systems.
I've spent countless hours since beginning running in 1979,
but seem to be getting slower every year. A great high school level running resource in Pennsylvania is
PennTrackXC.com.
Running is great exercise, but if you really want to get fit... try indoor rowing on a rowing ergometer.
The Concept 2 rower is the rower to have. It is used by olympic coaches to help select rowers for their team as well as wanna-be athletes like me. The machine is amazing and the workout is unreal.
I've rowed over 10 million meters (12/17/08) and am trying to reach 15 million. Currently I'm at 13.2 million. Erging is a demanding sport complete with local racing and world championships.
A video of an indoor rowing race between two olympic athletes.
Running is great exercise, but if you really want to get fit... try indoor rowing on a rowing ergometer.
The Concept 2 rower is the rower to have. It is used by olympic coaches to help select rowers for their team as well as wanna-be athletes like me. The machine is amazing and the workout is unreal.
I've rowed over 10 million meters (12/17/08) and am trying to reach 15 million. Currently I'm at 13.2 million. Erging is a demanding sport complete with local racing and world championships.
A video of an indoor rowing race between two olympic athletes.