Niels Joubert
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Web Developmer and Student |
| Location | Berkeley, CA |
| Introduction | I grew up in South Africa, where my first contact with engineering and the sciences came from my wonderful parents. I started my web development "career" through my father's involvement with Silicon Graphics, where I started off on Cosmo Create, one of the first WYSIWYG HTML editors, and I gave a presentation on this at the International Computer Fair at age 12. In the same year I became a licensed amateur radio operator. I grew up experimenting with APRS - using GPS and Radio technology to deploy cheap, effective position feeds. My involvement with amateur radio and the influence of my mentor Henry Chamberlain combined with my love of computer science, which I now bring to the University of California at Berkeley, where I am studying EECS and Astrophysics. I fancy myself a multidisciplinary engineer with a love of the sciences. I'm an active web developer, and I won Berkeley's Yahoo! Hack Day. I did research in Berkeley's Astrophysics department with Prof. Alex Filippenko (US Prof. of the Year), and now I'm working on simulations with Prof. James O'Brien in Computer Graphics. Next up, Graduate School! |
| Interests | High level programming languages, computer science, signals and systems processing, communication technology, music and musicianship, extreme sports (especially downhill biking) |
| Favorite movies | The Matrix, Contact, many more |
| Favorite music | Red Hot Chili Peppers, Massive Attack, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, DJ Shadow, Dope, Mozart... Quite a mix up! I play both violin and bass guitar, so my listening tastes are varied and many! Electronica (especially downtempo stuff), Rock, Punk/Funk, Classical and Jazz are the main genres I listen to. Check my last.fm profile for more! http://www.last.fm/user/njoubert |
| Favorite books | The Lord of the Rings, Atlas Shrugged, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, |
If your whole body were a hot air balloon, would you stop eating spicy food?
I probably would eat a LOT of spicy food. Let's think about it. *Initiate Roald Dahl world* Spicy food would most probably heat up my body, causing me to float away, and i'll have a fun fun time drifting through the clouds!