WILLIAM W. LUO 1969 SW Park Ave. Apt. 203 Portland, OR 97201 work: (503) 264-9944, home: (503) 248-1934 Internet: will_luo@ccm.jf.intel.com OBJECTIVE --------- A full time position as a software developer. EDUCATION --------- M.S. Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, December 1995, GPA: 3.9/4.0 B.S. Mathematics-Physics, Brown University, May 1992, GPA: 3.1/4.0 EMPLOYMENT ---------- Research Assistant, Multimedia Computing Group, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, October 1994 - December 1995 Worked on Sonic X, a system developed using C++ and embedded Tcl, which creates an off-screen model of X Windows-based applications by capturing their communications with the X server, and presenting the model to visually impaired users via auditory and braille interfaces. Developed a number of loadable modules and drivers for speech synthesizers and braille terminals. Optimized the C++ template data structures used by Sonic X to reduce repetitive code instantiation. Created a suite of Motif applications to test Sonic X. Reviewed the accessibility of the OSF/Motif 2.0 widget set with respect to the access hooks in X11R6 and made recommendations to improve the accessibility of graphical user interfaces to assistive softwares. Test Site Administrator, Multimedia Computing Group, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, June 1995 - Present Installed and maintained Solaris 2.5 beta, SPARCompiler 4.0 alpha and SPARCworks 3.1 alpha on local machines. Intern, Multimedia Product Development Group, IBM, Marietta, GA, March 1994 - June 1994, Sept.1993 - Dec. 1993 Designed and implemented a Windows interface for an installation utility. Implemented and maintained test scripts for IBM/Techmar's M-Motion and Voyager multimedia card software. Compatibility and functional testing of developmental M-Motion and Voyager cards on various IBM PC's and servers. Configured and maintained network and system softwares for a wide variety of IBM PC's. SKILLS ------ C (four years), C++ (two years), HTML (two years), Tcl/Tk (one year), Oracle and SQL/Plus (one year), MFC/Visual C++ (Win95) Knowledge of Lex, Yacc, O2 (OODB), 68000 Assembly, Lisp, Java, Prolog, ML, fp, Pascal, and FORTRAN Two year experience with Motif, Xt and Xlib libraries System administration experience in Solaris Fluent in Mandarin COURSE WORKS ------------ Operating System/System Software Compilers/Computer Language Design Real Time Multimedia Network Multimedia Server Architecture Parallel Computer Architecture Human-Computer Interface Design Network/Data Communications Software Engineering Computer System Evaluation Computer Graphics Computer Animation Algorithm Analysis Database Design PUBLICATIONS ------------ Luo, W. W. and Long, S., "The Effect of Multicasting and Multiple Media Object Types on Parallel and Merging Storage Strategies", Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing Technical Report GIT-CC-95-24, July, 1995. Luo, W. W. and Gerritsen, Hendrik J.., "Seeing the Fraunhofer Lines with only a Diffraction Grating and a Slit", American Journal of Physics, V61. P632(10), July, 1993. ACTIVITIES AND HONORS --------------------- Member of Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society, 1995-present Lead Guitarist for two loud and noisy bands, 1989-1992 Publicist for the Brown Film Society, 1989 Starter on the Brown Varsity Fencing Team, 1988-1989 Captain of the Stuyvesant High School Fencing Team, 1987-1988 National Semi-finalist in Westinghouse Science Competition, 1988 Member of New York City Junior Academy of Science, 1986-1988 RESIDENCE STATUS ---------------- U.S. Citizen