I am interested in visualization, user interfaces, security and security usability, typography, tinkering, and science, medicine, and technology in general. I've been a science guy since Sputnik.
Lorette and I live
on a lovely farm in Flemington, NJ, where we have a number of beehives and
half a dozen chickens, decent WiFi,
numerous woodland creatures including a major infestation of deer and deer ticks,
and over 150 species of birds that come through,
spotted by
birdnet software from Cornell
.
running on a couple of dedicated Raspberry Pis. The reports are not
public---I don't trust the software security of the implementation---but
here is a sample.
The Mentor Project.
Bringing the technical knowledge of aging cold-warriors into elementary
schools. Can I teach quantum mechanics to a second grader?
(Hint: probably not, but the rocket science talk shown here, and others, have
gone really well.)
I have had great fun teaching tech to kids.
I have been investing in the stock market since the Eisenhower administration, and as a result we are quite comfortable in our retirement. If you think that Social Security and Medicare are going to take care of you i your old age, you are not paying attention.
By saving regularly, and making long term investments in quality growth stocks, you can use the power of compound interest to save for old age. We are talking a million dollars by age sixty five.
This talk, What My Dad Taught Me About the Stock Market explains how he made his secretaries into millionaires. It is about 45 minutes long, doesn't require that you be a financial genius, and, with long term patience and a little discipline, you are very likely to beat the pros. I welcome comments and questions.
This is the most important part of my mentoring efforts.
For about the past 30 years I have been invited to give an evening talk to the amazing teens in the science part of the NJ Governor's School, at Drew University. The talk is not recorded, but I include here the rough notes I used (PDF). As usual, I didn't hit all my points, but the talk was a great success. notes I used during the talk and a collection of some samples from my old talks I showed the students, in Keynote and PDF. There are some videos in the Keynote version which obviously are not available in the PDF version.
I love living in the future, and recently gave a two-hour(!) fireside chat at SCaLE 21x in May 2024 about that, discussing life and a career over the past fifty years. One kind person said it was like Garrison Keilor with science. It is quite long, and a bit disorganized, but most of the audience sat through all 2 hours!
Presentations.
I do love to give talks and travel quite a bit doing so. Some of
my recent technical talks for grownups cover
Passwords and authentication (PDF, 52MB) and
An argument for eventual optimism in security
(Keynote, 52MB). I
am open to suggestions if you have another topics in mind.
You should check my speaker info if you
want to invite me to speak.
ChesHaz
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