Introduction

This is Sebster's home page.

My interests lie in the future and the road to it. I love physics, mathematics, computer science, and philosophy.

Personal

Paragliding

I love nature and sports, and in the summer of 2000 me and my girlfriend had a great vacation in Slovenia! Among other things we took a five day paragliding course, of which I've got some pictures.

Bookmarks

I keep a list of books that I have found particularly interesting and thought provoking.

Puzzles

I have compiled a list of mathematical puzzles that I've encountered and enjoyed.

Thesis

I have my thesis online as a postscript file (thesis.ps) and as a dvi file (thesis.dvi).

CMG Challenge 1996

In 1996 CMG issued an interesting optimization problem for which two friends and I wrote a nice little program and used some serious processing time to find the winning solution...

Other stuff

• decode.asm - A program to decode base64 files written in DEBUG
• memtest86 - Several ready to use images of a useful memory testing program
• games - Two DOS based games I made back in the old days when I was a kid
• the halting problem - An intuitive and simple explanation of why the halting problem is unsolvable

Links

General

• arXiv.org - A huge archive of math, physics, and computer science papers
• EWD - The (mostly handwritten) manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra
• SETI@home - The search for extra terrestial life at home

Artificial Intelligence

• AI on the Web - a really extensive list links to of people, companies and sites related to AI.
• The Humanoid Robotics Group - the MIT group responsible for Kismet and Cog.
• Artificial Online Life - a good starting point on the web.

Nanotechnology

• Foresight Institute - a good starting point on the web.
• Engines of Creation - a non-technical introduction on the web.
• Unbounding the Future - another non-technical book on nanotechnology.
• nanodot.org - a nanotechnology analog of slashdot.org

Quantum Computing

• Center for Quantum Computation - the research group at Oxford University.
• The Quantum Computation Archive - lots of articles in PDF format.