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Charlie Katz
Principal Computer Engineer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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Background in physics, astrophysics, and EE. Now a jack-of-all-computer-trades at the Submillimeter Array radio telescope observatory, doing web front- and back-end development, telescope software infrastructure, database services, embedded systems development, telescope software systems architecture…mostly in Perl and C.

Recent comments

Introduction to Animation and OpenGL on the Android SDK
posted almost 4 years ago:
Too much reading from slides. Slides full of example code, but no demonstrations of the results.
Grokkin' Design
posted almost 4 years ago:
Lots of good basic info for a behind-the-web-page techie who is being forced into a designer role. Branding info not directly relevant, but interesting.

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