
I grew up in Berlin, Germany and later San Jose, CA, USA. I now live in Berkeley, CA, where I am a second-year PhD student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley.
Computer Science. This is what I do all day. I'm glad I love what I do.
Research-wise, I'm interested in computer security, systems, networking, distributed systems, programming languages, and databases. (I listed so many things, maybe I should just say what I'm not interested in!)
Some other computing-related topics:
- Programming languages (Python, Perl, Java, C++, Lisp, Ocaml, ...)
- Open Source
- Emacs
- Operating systems
- Debian, GNU, Linux
- Version control (Subversion)
- P2P
- BOINC
- WWW
Some other topics I like to think about (very incomplete list)
- Linguistics: history, etymology, lingual trees
- Music
- Politics
- History
- Wikis
- Investment, business
- Voting systems
- Astrophysics, cosmology
- Free software / Open source
- Sociology
- Cognitive science, how the mind works