Tony Hammond's new(er) web site

What you have stumbled upon:

This is my latest attempt to create a real web site.

What you will likely find here:

This is mostly a summary review of the past, exhibition of the present and plans for the future of that which is relavant to myself, most specifically of that on which I work.

What you wil likely not find here:

For reference purposes, THIS IS NOT A BLOG. I refuse to join the throng of drag-and-drop and point-and-click losers. I used to run something closely resembling a blog before the term was coined but not anymore.

Having little interested in publishing my entire life on the Internet, and with little time as things go anyway, this is more of a semi-professional/semi-private exposition of my interests. I am not conceited enough to run an entire blog anyway. Besides those reasons, my life is not that terribly interesting anyway, going nowhere as someone once put it, extreme and unaccepting. So ...

A bit about who I am and what I do:

As the above title should indicate, my name is Tony Hammond. A brief description of my background is that I grew up in Madison, WI. I graduated from the University of Wisconsin, BSME with a second major in computer science and substantial coursework in mathematics. After graduating, I took a position with the UW - Madison College of Engineering, where I still reside today.

My official occupation is Systems Programmer for the University of Wisconsin at Madison. My unofficial, and considerably more descriptive, occupation is HPC cluster administrator for the same institution. I am responsible for all aspects of a small HPC cluster which goes by the name of ECCO ( more on that later ). My second duty is as advisor to the University of Wisconsin Robotics Club, a small undergraduate projects group.

Below there should eventually be links to some of my projects. Most of my work centers around HPC, distributed systems, artificial neural networks, data collection/processing systems and robotics. There are numerous other areas in which I have done varying amounts of work as well, but primarily as a hobby or as the part of a larger goal.