Erich Schneider's public personal page

Places I've been:

High school at the Covington Latin School.
Undergrad studies at Caltech. My advisor was in Computer Science. I lived in Dabney House and Ricketts House, and spent much time in the UGCS lab (called the CS10 lab or Bobcat lab back then).
Graduate school at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Once again I was in the Computer Science department, working in the Hypermedia Research Lab, which became the Center for the Study of Digital Libraries. For several years I was part of the interdisciplinary Bioinformatics Working Group. I got all the way to ABD status, but couldn't quite finish for various reasons.
Caltech Information Technology Services, where I was a sysadmin (a.k.a. "plumber of the 21st century") and programmer (the ITS "Huge Development Team").
Now I program full-time at Yahoo! Search Marketing in Burbank.

In my free time I like to:

Spend time with my lovely wife (we were married March 9, 2002)
Play board and video games
Dungeon Master (here I am as my characters Loong the warrior monk, Heliodorus the paladin, Igor the Mighty the fighter, Istarion the wizard, and Ironbeak the ranger (a kobold, which in DM is a sort of bird-man))
Read science fiction
Study Ancient Greek
do yoga

Items you may care to look at:

Stuff of mine on the Caltech alumni web server. Pretty much limited to my Caltech references in Real Genius page.
Some of the texts I have collected over the years.
A hard-to-find piece of music from the movie Dune.
My personal, everyday home page.
Some biographical info about my father, Ed Schneider, who was a test pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.
Pictures of my niece, Cedar.
Pictures of me:
- Me on my recumbent bike. (Actually, this is not my current recumbent; the one pictured was stolen in December of 2002. My current one is almost identical in color and construction, though.)
- Some older pictures (head shot, body shot) from when I had more hair than in the picture above...
- Some newer pictures (head shot, body shot) after I shaved my head.
- Niki Harless (nyx@monkapotamus.com) used one of my long-hair pictures as the source for the portrait of a chaotic neutral Grey Elvish wizard-prince for a Neverwinter Nights module. (Compare with another picture of me as Istarion, the Elvish wizard I play at Dungeon Master...)
- A picture of me with my award plaque from Webnet 97 (and one with the other award winners)

You can contact me as follows:

US Mail:  Erich Schneider
          2511 Canyada Avenue
          Altadena, CA 91001
Phone (home):   +1 (626) 398-3738
Phone (mobile): +1 (626) 203-7519
Email:    erich@caltech.edu

(Last update: July 17, 2006)