Doug Anderson's home page

Things have certainly changed since the last update on this page. I always think that if people are going to have a web page for themselves that at least they should have a picture of themselves. This most recent digital picture is of my wife Jeanie and me. We got married and now live in Campbell, CA. We also live with our four "kids" Stinky, Cow , Bunny Foo-foo, and Baby (pictured below).

I used to work for a software engineer company called Handspring. They made handheld computers like the Visor and "communicators" (handheld computers with cell phones built in) like the Treo. I worked for Handspring for over 3 years, right after I graduated from college. After Handspring I worked for Palm, I worked there for 7 years.

Currently I work for Vitamin D. The company was founded in 2007 to develop solutions for the next generation of intelligent computing. The goal is to combine elegant user interface design with artificial intelligence to simplify people's lives. We believe that technology does not have to be frustrating. Intelligent computing, combined with thoughtful design, can create solutions that are powerful yet invisible.

Before working for Handspring, I was a student at Stanford University studying Computer Science. At Stanford I earned my BS and my MS. While at Stanford, I was involved in a number of mostly computer related activities (yes, I'm a computer geek--I admit it). I was part of the excellent section leading program at Stanford in which undergraduates are involved in teaching the introduction to computer science class. I also was fortunate enough to teach an Assembly Language Programming class a few times.

Our kitties

Links to Friends and Family

I have a few friends with web presences. Actually, it's not too many now that most of them have graduated from college and their old accounts have expired. Here are ones I could find (if I'm missing someone's page, let me know):

• Jeanie Ramos - My wife!
• Eric Anderson - My brother.
• Ross Anderson - My dad. This is a page about the antennas he's designed.
• Andrea Kuegel - One of my cousins. This page has some of her writing.
• Marci Kuegel - Another of my cousins. This is actually a web site showing clay sculptures she makes and sells called Skidgets.
• Lynn and William Kuegel - My aunt and uncle. This is also a page displaying their work.
• Priscilla Cinque - A friend from work. Lots of cool projects that she's worked on. Check out the peep movie.
• Bob Petersen - Another friend from work.
• Lisa Kunze - A friend from high school. Her page is pretty out of date too.
• Felix Feng - Former drawmate at Stanford. Note: this is his wedding page. He was recently married.
• Evance Mok - High school friend. This is also a wedding page.
• Grab Bag Design is a web site for a web design firm run by my friends Jeff Giles, Rahul Gupta, and Tim Dietrich.

Projects

I don't spend a whole lot of time these days on non-work computer projects. However, there are still a few things that I do.

• I've done a few programs for PalmOS. I've got a whole page devoted to those, so I won't really talk about them here.
• I'm running my own server at home. It does email, web, DNS, and a few other things. It hosts two domains. The first is disordat.com. The "disordat" name was inspired by the game "You Don't Know Jack", which my friends and I used to play a lot. The idea for the name goes to Solomon Lefler, who was one of my housemates several years ago. I use the "disordat" domain for random things like personal email, email aliases, and hosting this web page. The second server is byteswapped.com. "Byteswapped" is a computer term that referrs to data that is the wrong endianness. At least, that's how I've heard it used. Pretty nerdy, but I thought it was a neat domain name for computer-related stuff, so I use this domain name for hosting any software that I write.
• I have in the recent past taught a class on Assembly Language Programming at Stanford. Perhaps sometime in the future I'll have time to teach it again (I don't want to teach it again unless I have a lot of time to devote to it).

Old Projects

These are projects that I used to work on, but I've kinda given up on.

• Old Wilcox email list - I used to try to keep track of email addresses for Wilcox High School students and alumni. Then, too many people got email addresses and it just became too hard. This list hasn't been updated in a long, long, long while.
• BatchFTP 2.6.1 is an AppleScript that allows you to download a whole group of files at once based on a common prefix. It's written to use Peter Lewis's Anarchie. This script is pretty outdated now, though I guess someone might still get some use out of it. I don't use or maintain it any more (and haven't for years).

Misc. Links

I really don't have too many links here, since I'm pretty bad about keeping them up to date.

• I'm working for Vitamin D now. We've got a nifty tool for creating / analyzing networks on Numenta's NuPIC platform.