1.  Name (so that I can figure out who's replying); full name ..

Donald Edward Hopkins

2.  Status (GRA, Research, ...)                             

UGRA, Computer Science major, Philosophy minor

3.  Country/State of birth

USA, San Diego, California

4.  Age (optional)

22 (Feb 9 1966)

5.  High School name, country/state
    If not Maryland, reasons for moving to MD???

Parkdale High School, Prince George's County, Maryland

6.  Favourite class in high school or favourite hobby (eg. Math, 
    coin collecting, racquetball)
    Plus, something relating to computers in high school.

Lunch hour, when I could use the terminal (in the science teacher's back room)

7.  College degrees.  Current degree status and past achievements.
    (eg.  working towards a master's degree in XXX; completed YYY.
    tennis trophies (!), ...

Working on BS in CS.

	Won first place in 1981 Greenbelt Junior High School Science
	Fair for a project written in Pascal that simulated a mouse's
	learning process with negative and positive reinforcement. won
	honorable mention in the county science fair, and a NOAA/NESS
	award for mathematics.

	Letter of Commendation for outstanding performance on the
	Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test / National Merit
	Scholarship Qualifying test in 1982.

	Member of Phi Eta Sigma.

	On the team representing the University of Maryland, that won
	first place in the 1984 ACM Capitol Regional programming
	contest at John Hopkins University, and fourth place in the
	International ACM Scholastic Programming Contest in New
	Orleans in March 1985. Won a trophy, an Apple Macintosh, a
	$1000 scholarship from Borland International, and a $300
	scholarship from Upsilon Pi Upsilon.  Won third place in a
	preliminary programming contest at the University of Maryland
	on September 7, 1985, qualifying to be on the team that went
	to the contest at Drew University.  Took third place at the
	Drew University contest, winning a $250 prize from Epson of
	America, and plaques.  On the team that won third place at the
	1985 ACM Capitol Regional programming contest at William and
	Mary College on November 2, 1986.  On the team that won fourth
	place in a programming contest at George Mason College, in
	1986.

	Developed and implemented pie menus for the X10 and NeWS
	window systems. Implemented the X10 pie menus as a C extension
	to the "uwm" window manager.  Interfaced a 68000 forth system
	to the pie menu window manager.  Used it to gather data for an
	empirical study comparing circular pie menus with traditional
	linear menus.  Implemented pie menus for the NeWS window
	system in PostScript, using an object-oriented programming
	package.

	Gave a work-in-progress talk about pie menus at the 1987
	Summer Usenix Conference in Phoenix. Presented a video tape
	and talked about pie menus at the 1987 Usenix Graphics
	Workshop in Cambridge. Gave a live demonstration of pie menus
	under the NeWS window system for the NeWS special interest
	group, at the 1987 national Sun Users Group meeting in San
	Jose. Presented a video tape, talked about pie menus, and gave
	a live demonstration at CHI '88, in Washington D.C. Gave a
	talk and a live demonstration of pie menus, HyperTIES, and
	UniPress Emacs for the NeWS window system, at the Sun User
	Group Southwest Regional Conference, in Albuquerque. Gave
	demonstrations at EduCom conference, at the Sun Microsystems
	booth. 

8.  Goal in  studies/life.
    (eg. first person to dance on a pc with one leg)

Work at home. Have a big huge computer in the basement, and be able to yell at cats for walking across the keyboard.

9.  What do you link best about the (hcil) lab.

The working environment, and all the neat people who show up around here.

10. Comment on your being here; (in the US, lab, UM)
    (eg. "Experience is rewarding.")

It's great to get a chance to implement a bunch of weird ideas and see
how people react to them.
Implemented the HyperTIES NeWS window system interface, and other
random assorted things.