Richard Gooch

Richard Gooch has a BE in Electronic Engineering from the (formerly) South Australian Institute of Technology, and a PhD in computer science, in the area of "Astronomical Visualisation", from Maquarie University in Sydney. He did his PhD at the CSIRO ATNF, where he worked for several years. Before that, he worked at the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics for a few years, contributing to a number of projects such as synthetic aperture radar, mine safety and a FFT DSP developers' kit.

Richard has since moved to Calgary, Canada, taking up a post-doctoral position to continue his visualisation research.

Richard has used and hacked Linux since 1993, mostly during his "spare" time. His various hacks include bug fixes, optimisations in the scheduler, poll/select, the MTRR driver and devfs. He has also hacked MSR and performance monitoring drivers and a (crude) coloured page allocator. Outside the kernel, he's hacked boot scripts, debugged Xlib, written PGPsendmail/Unix and of course visualisation tools (and the support library). He has also spent many years in system and network administration.

Richard has recently signed on with EMC Corporation, though he will continue living in Calgary and working on visualisation.

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