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Who am I?

Nathan Keynes, presently engaged in gainful employment with Sun Labs on the Parfait bug-checking project. I have previously worked at Virgin Blue and CSIRO.

Research Interests

• Programming language design and implementation.
• Binary emulation and translation
• Web-based application development

Active Projects

• The dreamcast emulator lxdream, which I started many many years ago and is finally getting to a usable stage as of early 2007. Current work is focusing on improving and verifying the static correctness of the emulation.

• The Elr parser generator was originally developed for my honours thesis (2000). The main advantage of elr over yacc/lex is that it does lexical scanning in a parser-state-sensitive way, so you can easily support language features like non-reserved keywords that are very painful to do in a traditional yacc/lex setup. Current work is on improving usability and stability to the point where it can be used in production code.

How to find me?

You can't. It's impossible. cf Heisenberg.
Online, I am normally on (in no particular order) Jabber (nkeynes@gmail.com) and MSN (n_keynes@hotmail.com). And of course, my canonical email address is
nkeynes@deadcoderemoval.net

Stuff I Read

Doctor Who (The greatest SF series ever made, of course), David Brin (If you haven't read the uplift series... what the heck are you waiting for?), Terry Pratchett, Iain M. Banks, James P. Hogan, Frank Herbert, and just about anything good in the SF/Fantasy genres, really. Incidentally, if you happen to have any rare Doctor Who target novelizations that you'd be willing to sell, please let me know.

Stuff I listen to

In no particular order, I'm moderately fond of the likes of Ani Difranco (Folk-Punk), The Tea Party (Alternative?), Elend (Gothic), Melissa Etheridge (Rock), Brave/Arise from thorns (Erm... I give up), Deep Forest (Ethnic Fusion), and Stoa, among other things.

Anime/Manga

Admittedly my collection is a little on the small side these days (all those import DVDs get a little expensive, ne?), but I admit a fondness for quite a bit of japanimation. Particular favourites include Slayers, Gunnm/Battle Angel, Shoujo Kakumei Utena (Revolutionary girl Utena), and Rurouni Kenshin. I also have collected a fair bit of manga in past years, although I read rather so slowly (my Japanese needs a lot of work...) that I haven't really even started on most of them yet.

Other Interests

The game of Go, Piano, Tennis, Squash (when I can find anyone to play). I also used to collect Jolt bottles, but I have decided that was a silly activity.

Geek code

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Updated 28/04/2007: Replaced expired public key.

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