A short professional bio .
A reasonably recent vita, in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) form.
A few Technical Reports that are available on-line.
During the 1999-2000 academic year I was on leave at the Learning Research and Development Center . Now I'm back at CMU Statistics .
Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA.
About Carnegie Mellon University .
Slow Gold can change the pitch and speed of a .wav file.
The folks at StringsByMail have a great website and are very helpful online.
For steel strings, D'Addario EXPs (the 12's [bright, brassy bronze] and the 17's [mellower phosphor bronze]) are great medium weight strings. Sound good, last well.
I started playing Augustine nylon strings.
What's that? Banjo's, you say?
The Gold Tone CC-OT is a decent student banjo (open back).
Kevin Enoch's basic banjo, the Tradesman, looks like an awfully nice upgrade. Soon there will be a Tradesman with an 11" pot.
Magicscore Maestro looks like flexible, affordable notation software.
Notion looks like very nice higher-priced notation software.
Interlochen College has interesting adult classes and workshops.
Emily Pinkerton. See also her myspace page and her sonicbids page.
Michael Johnson is a fantastic guitar/singer writer and arranger.
I may never be able to play like Leo Kottke or Ralph Towner, but it would be great to have a fraction of a percent of their innovation and taste.
Need a vacation? Try The New Tourists.