* Table of Contents *

* About *

I'm a recent graduate of the Physical Language Workshop at the MIT Media Lab, led by John Maeda. I'm currently interested in developing technologies that can harness the social potential of the web for more creative endeavors on the desktop.


Additional information can be found on my MIT page and blog.

* Education *

• SM in media arts and sciences, MIT. Cambridge, MA, June 2008.
• M.Eng. in computer science, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, June 2000.
• BA in chemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, June 1998.
• BA in biology, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, June 1998.

* Selected Projects *

Feedabot (Link)
2009

Automated rendering of web feeds.

SimLinz (Link)
2008 -2009

Combining pencil and paper-based gestural interactions to navigate historical and statistical data about the city of Linz, Austria. Developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, SimLinz is currently an interactive exhibition at the Ars Electronica center.

g-stalt (Link)
2008 -2009

A gesture-based system for navigating large information spaces naturally, quickly, and seamlessly.

CVOCV (Link)
2009 - present

A CoreVideo-based OpenCV experimentation environment.

E15 (Link)
2007 - 2009

E15 is an ongoing group project in the Physical Language Workshop. It is a three-dimensional OpenGL-based web environment, focused on enabling rich visualizations based on existing web content, as well as providing novel ways to distribute, share, and interact with these visualizations.

E15:oGFx (Link)
2007 - 2009

E15:oGFx is a tool for the generation and exploration of organic 3D forms originating from 2D animations.

OpenCode (Link)
2006 - 2008

OpenCode is a web-based programming environment that leverages the user community to foster creative development and teach graphics-based programming to non-programmers.

* Professional Experience *

* Talks & Teaching Experience *

* Awards / Publications / Residencies*

• Liminal Screen co-production residency. Banff New Media Institute , April 2010.


• Cum Laude, distinction in all subjects. Cornell University, Ithaca NY, June 1998.
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• First place, MIT iPhone programming competition. Cambridge MA, January 2008.
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• Philippe Bonnet, Kyle Buza, Zhiyuan Chen, Victor Cheng, Randolph Chung, Takako M. Hickey, Ryan Kennedy, Daniel Mahashin, Tobias Mayr, Ivan Oprencak, Praveen Seshadri, Hubert Siu: The Cornell Jaguar System: Adding Mobility to PREDATOR. SIGMOD Conference 1999: 580-581
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• Kyle Buza, Takashi Okamoto: Code Sharing on the Web: Two Approaches. Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW2009)

* Filed Patents *

• Method and System for Runtime Environment Emulation. October, 2006.
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* Recent Coursework *

* Other Details *

• For those looking for a laundry list of my skills, here's the best I can do.
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• My work on embedded Java Virtual Machines at Sun Microsystems turned me into a decent Java/C/ASM (ARM/XScale) programmer. I became familiar with OS X at MIT, and it is now my platform of choice. I'm extremely comfortable with Objective-C, and use it when it makes sense. The same thing goes for Python, Javascript, Ruby, and Perl (ordered by skill level). I've built websites using Ruby on Rails and others using pure PHP. I've done jobs over the course of the past few years that were purely C++ based, and am comfortable enough with it to be productive in a professional environment.
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• I'm intimately familiar with the internals of graphical programming libraries including Processing and OpenFrameworks. I've done a number of projects that involve the modification of various open-source video game emulators from Stella (Atari2600) to the NES, GameBoy, and Intellivision. Recently, I've spent time digging into the internals of the Chrome browser and the V8 JavaScript interpreter. I've poked around the WebKit source a few times to take a look at various things from the structure of the RenderTree to the inner workings of JavaScriptCore. I've written applications for Oblong's g-speak spatial operating environment, and worked on (not yet released) interactive data visualizations of live flight data tiled across on hundreds of displays. I can make iPhone/iPad applications, and from my early days using JavaME, know how to work with and program resource-constrained devices. I've build quick interactive prototypes using Ogre3D, and am quite competent with OpenGL and GLSL-based shaders. I program as much on paper as I do on screen. I can wireframe and sketch (poorly). I strive to be able to build the things I imagine.
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