Jim Snow

jsnow at cs dot pdx dot edu

(503)330-2177

I was formerly a grad student at OGI then PSU. I worked for RNA Networks for several years as a kernel developer, and later for Dell when they acquired RNA. I currently work for Intel and am a founder of Metamocracy, a startup which develops reputation systems for online communities.

Links

How to Build a Cigar Box Guitar

Just intonation and Fretted Instruments

Just Intonation and Keyboards

Ashvin Goel, Luca Abeni, Charles Krasic, Jim Snow, and Jonathan Walpole. Supporting time-sensitive applications on general-purpose operating systems (citeseer). In Proceedings of the Fifth USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Dec 2002.
Luca Abeni, Ashvin Goel, Charles Krasic, Jim Snow, and Jonathan Walpole. A measurement-based analysis of the real-time performance of the Linux kernel (citeseer). In Proceedings of the Real Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Sep 2002.
Jim Snow, Wu-chi Feng, Wu-chang Feng, Implementing a Low Power TDMA Protocol over 802.11, Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Mar 2005.

Polink, a site for tracking relationships between public figures and/or organizations.
Glome, a functional raytracer with many primitves, CSG, and a BIH-based acceleration structure.
GlomeVec, a vector library used by Glome and IcoGrid.
Lists, a website for collaborative lists. (Currently down.)
IcoGrid, a library for generating grids mapped onto the surface of a sphere.