Bill up against The Wall. The stars are merely an artistic flourish; they are not indicative of his state of mind. However, any blur perceived in the photo can be considered indicative. (BTW: Careful observation will reveal that the gilt is rubbing off.)
Bill is watching you. Be nice. (Observe the tick below my right eye.)

Bill Bailey has had an interest in computing machines since the mid-1980's. This evolved from an early interest in "the mind," as in "consciousness", once again his current academic/research interest. Many years ago he got an AB from Dartmouth, a B.Eng from Thayer School at Dartmouth, and an MSEE from Stanford University. Now he's an old guy (i.e >30 years of age). To give you a hint how old -- he knocks on wood a fair amount, doesn't want to put his mouth on this sort of thing -- he knows how to use a slide rule (oh my god! Speaking of wood it was a bamboo Post, and he still has it). And, he once sat in a seminar when these guys from Intel came by to show off their little 4004 4-bit processor (or was it the 8008? He seems to remember the 4004 was actually on the market. Yikes! Now that's OLD.) Mr. B. worked for a really long time (or so it seemed at the time, now it seems like just a flash) at a company that made equipment for the welding industry. There, early on, sometimes he got to do a lot of assembly-language programming. But usually he was just wire-wrapping and soldering and doing EE-stuff. And then when he got kinda old he got to spend (waste?) a lot of time working on international standards. And now he's out to pasture, building things and mulling over "consciousness" [and better laptop cases, not so much any more]. And so it goes...

Some of wvbailey's professional accomplishments:

  • As an undergrad he built a datalogger to hook to said Teletype
  • Then he built a digital taperecorder to hook to the datalogger
  • He wrote the "Universal instructions" for the aformentioned beasty.
  • He's built Post-Turing machine models in C, assembly language, and in Excel. (He likes making models in Excel.)