David Dewey's Page

I'm twenty-three years old and a senior computer science major attending the University of Washington in Seattle. I will be graduating in December 2003 with a degree in computer science and a minor in mathematics. I have also studied two years of Mandarin Chinese, and recently spent three months traveling and backpacking in China. I will post stories and pictures of my adventures there soon!

During my time as a student at UW, I did a year of full-time engineering co-op work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. I wrote software to do voice recognition. The goal was to be able to verify a speaker's identity from his or her voice with enough certainty to be useful for security applications. All my code was written in C++ and compiles with Visual C++ as well as the Gnu C Compiler.

Also while at UW I did some undergraduate research projects related to computer vision. One project involved the creation of pushbroom panoramic images, images created by panning a camera past a scene. As a TA for UW's Computer Vision course in Winter 2003, I created the final project, a face recognition project using Eigenfaces.

I received my private pilot's license on October 16, 1998. This is my photo taken after my first solo on September 27, 1997. The aircraft pictured is the Cessna 150 in which I trained. After getting my license I also did some flying in a Cessna 172, which is a larger plane with more power.

I used to work for Olympus Net doing software development. I also do a lot of programming on my own. Several years ago I made Laser Kombat, a freeware puzzle game for Windows 95/98. Laser Kombat was programmed in C++ and utilizes DirectX. I should have used OpenGL, but now I'm too lazy to convert it. Sorry. I have experience in C++, assembly language, and Python. If you're looking for a programmer, please check my online résumé. I'm pretty busy right now, so I'm not looking for a job, but I'm always interested in hearing ideas for cool, challenging projects.

Below are links to some other web pages I've created.