John Lam
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | software developer |
| Location | Rochester, NY, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | muckraker, photographer, road skater, software developer …a complex character in a world demanding simplicity I help people and companies adapt open source sofware and use social computing in collaborative work. |
| Interests | social computing, collaborative filtering, Movielens, informatics, singularity, computer science, programming, hacking, open source, Scheme, NextStep, Unix, Creative Commons, open content, open courseware, history, science, mathematics, boundary calculus, physics, optics, acoustics, music, art + design, text, typography, ∞, ♥, ✈, ♪, ✍, ✉, 中文, Cantonese, Deutsch, traveling, camping, backpacking, hiking, photography, reading, writing, media literacy, social media, journalism, Black Rock Beacon, Burning Man, )'(, Nordic skiing, road skating, bicycling, Critical Mass, wheel building, peasant food, farming, farm markets, bazaars, sound gardens, libraries, loft conversions, cities, architecture, tensegrity, Pritzker Prize, Arcosanti, Long Now, sustainability, economics, finance, cooperatives, social enterprise, venture philanthropy, social capital, Ashoka.org, Macarthur fellowships, unconventional wisdom, innovation, genius, iconoclasm, EMDR, awareness, clarity of mind, life |
| Favorite movies | Yi Yi, Vanilla Sky, Koyaanisqatsi, Six Degrees of Separation, El Amor Brujo, Bagdad Cafe, Before the Rain, Cast Away, Horse Whisperer, Contact, Jackie Brown, Traffic, Eat Drink Man Woman, Benny & Joon, Toy Story 2, In the Mood for Love, Sixth Sense, Apocalypse Now, Alien, Avatar, American Beauty, Bridges of Madison County, Chungking Express, Cinema Paradiso, Dr Zhivago, Eat Drink Man Woman, Emperor's Club, Fast Cheap & Out of Control, Finding Nemo, God Must Be Crazy, Good Will Hunting, Hamlet (2000), Human Stain, Joy Luck Club, Laurel Canyon, Manhattan, Paris Texas, Pay It Forward, Powaqqatsi, Road Home, Short Cuts, Smoke Signals, Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Three Colors: Red, Three Colors: White, Together (2002), Vertigo, MovieLens |
| Favorite music | Yo-yo Ma, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Maria Schneider, Bill Frisell, Theo Bleckmann, John Hollenbeck, Miles Davis, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Moby, Tom Waits, Henryk Górecki, Béla Bartók, Antonio Jobim, Brian Wilson, Sky Cries Mary, Tunde Jegede, Jose Angel Navarro, Vince Guaraldi, George Winston, Keola Beamer, James Taylor, Pink Floyd, Ossia, Musica Nova, Kilbourn Hall, Java's |
| Favorite books | Tripmaster Monkey, Chautauqua Summer, Journey to Ixtlan, Eudaemonic Pie, The Predictors, The Frugal Gourmet, Lewis Carroll, Douglas Coupland, Hal Abelson, Guy Steele, James Gleick, Richard Feynman, Arno Penzias, Richard Shoup, Edward Tufte, Stephen Gould, William Riker, Elizabeth Corcoran, Vivian Paley, Francine Shapiro, e e cummings |