David Neto's bio

I:

• am married.
• was born before the first moon landing.
• attended Bloor Collegiate Institute (high school).
• co-founded MAT 007 I News, a recreational undergraduate mathematics newsletter.
• completed my PhD in Computer Science (May 25, 1999). The thesis title is Efficient Cluster Compensation for Lin-Kernighan Heuristics. Derek Corneil supervised the work.
• earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto, specializing in Mathematics and Computer Science.
• earned a master's degree in computer science in 1993 under the supervision of Faith Fich. The title of my MSc thesis is PRAM Computation on Fractured Domains.
• co-own a Saturn (car).
• have taken part in job fairs put on by the Portuguese Canadian Student Federation because I believe in apprenticeship and in the importance of role models.
• participated in an ACM Regional Programming Contest in 1992. My teammates were Andy Brownbill and Geoffrey Waigh.
• coached the St. George campus (University of Toronto) entry in the 1997 ACM East-Central Regional Programming Contest. I was proud to take Eitan Grinspun, Jonathan Shekter, and Matt Szczesny down to Notre Dame. Many thanks to the Department of Computer Science for sponsoring these teams.
• really like peaches.
• like to read books.
• like music.
• have been declared ``the world champion of wet tennis'' by my brother John, after our match in Toronto on Sunday August 31, 1997. Who else plays tennis in the rain?
• have been no further west than Oahu, no further east than Lisbon, no further north than Edmonton, and no further south than Xcaret, Mexico.
• prefer to prepare my tax returns by hand.
• have had a web page since January 1995.