Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician and a computer scientist. Born in Kentucky in 1946, Rucker moved to Silicon Valley when he turned 40. Rucker has published twenty-five books, primarily science-fiction and popular science. He was an early cyberpunk and an editor at Mondo 2000. He often writes SF in a style is characterized as transreal. His most recent novels were Frek and the Elixir, a far-future epic about a boy's galactic quest to restore Earth's ecology and As Above So Below, a historical novel based on the life of the sixteenth century painter Peter Bruegel.  Rucker is a professor emeritus of computer science at San Jose State University, where he created a number of freeware programs relating to chaos, artificial life, cellular automata, higher dimensions, and computer games. He is presently working on The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul, a nonfiction book about computers and the nature of reality. Rucker's website can be found at www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker or at www.rudyrucker.com.

Is this you? The folks behind Is this you? have been collecting found photographs for years hoping to reunite said photograph with the owner. Well, they found someone. In Tokyo! Link

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Ah, Verisign .... how do I hate thee. Link

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embed: DMCA threats: Agfa Monotype Corporation and International Typeface Corporation have ordered Tom Murphy, developer of embed, to cease distributing the program. Link (via mikel)

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Kaliber 10000 Matchmaker: My favourite section of the newly relaunched k10k is the Matchmaker. Have a personal project that you need help with? Or, looking to lend a helping hand? Matchmaker will hook you up with some groovy folk. Link

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The Back to Reality Party: Jason McCabe Calacanis (Silicon Alley Reporter) is holding the Venture Reporter 100 Party at a McDonalds! Link (via Shameless Self Promotion)

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PDArt: "experiments in lo-fi design & comics." Link

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Every Icon: John F. Simon Jr. is going to unveil a new piece of software at his opening in New York on Saturday. I'm still enthralled with Every Icon. Link

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New York Surveillance Camera Players: "At 3 pm on Saturday 4 May 2002, as part of the new media exhibit at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, the New York Surveillance Camera Players (SCP-New York) will perform Amnesia in front of a webcam installed in Times Square by a privacy-insensitive company called Earthcam." Link

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Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day: You've missed it by two days, but check out the gallery. Link

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Left over vacation days? "Where other conferences end, Conspiracy Con begins..." Link

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Throw down! Good vs. evil? The chicken or the egg? Google Smackdown answers all. Link Discuss

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