Tim
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Corralitos, California |
| Introduction | Born in 1951 in Maryland. Childhood in San Diego, No. Virginia, south of France. Interest in science at an early age, focused on physics after 1966. Attended UC Santa Barbara, majoring in physics. Decided to try industry for a while, joining Intel in 1974, after my Bachelors. Worked on lots of interesting challenges. Made my major discovery in 1977, that the random single-bit errors we (and everyone else) were seeing in our RAM chips were being caused by alpha particles flipping bits. After leaving Intel in 1986 i started exploring the implications of strong cryptography, especially in areas of data havens, anonymous remailers, least significant bit steganography, time-release cryptography, and other "implications" which have turned out to be commonplace in 2008. In 1992 co-formed a group dubbed "Cypherpunks." The efforts here helped derail the "Clipper" wiretap chip and helped popularize strong crypto. Alas, the main goal, of untraceable digital cash deployment, remains elusive. Recent math, specifically of the topology and category theory sort. Specifically, the links with security theory, linguistics, and knowledge. |
| Interests | Physics, math, category theory, AI, connections between these topics, libertarian ideas, philosophy, hiking, gardening |