Updated 2008-Jun-22
Name pronunciation: the first syllable in “Pouzzner” rhymes with “goes” and is the stressed syllable. The second syllable rhymes with “sir”. This name is more often transliterated as “Posner”.
My old home page, first posted around 1995 and replaced in August 2001, includes links to my 1990s writings and projects.
In my adult life, to date I have worked mostly in the software and Internet industries, as a system architect and analyst, and as an engineer (chiefly, implementing systems architected by myself). In the first half of the 1990s, as an undergraduate at MIT, I was occupied with distributed computing software architecture including applied cryptography, artificial intelligence including machine understanding of human language, and brain/cognitive science including functional neuroanatomy (functional brain architecture).
Since then, I have continued my work on distributed computing system architecture and the brain/cognitive sciences (principally, systems neuroscience and evolutionary psychology). Professionally/entrepreneurially, I am occupied with net-centric software architecture and engineering, and digital signal processing (DSP) for audio applications, chiefly radio broadcast. Pursuing personal passions, I have been making a long term study of history, law, sociology, semiotics, economics, political science, and military science, and have been applying the methodology of the system architect and analyst to my goal of improving and enlarging civilization. In 2006, my attention turned to neuroscience more formally, and — in pursuit of engineered consciousness — I will repeatedly return to it in the future.
I was born in 1972 in Connecticut, and my schooling before MIT was
predominantly government-
I have lived in cities across the northern tier of the country, though mostly on the coasts. Obviously I lived in the Boston metro region while a student at MIT. (In the spring of 2006 I finished my degree there (in neuroscience).) In 1995, I moved to the San Francisco Bay area to work in the software industry. Two years later, I moved to Greenpoint Brooklyn. After stopovers in Bayonne New Jersey and back in Connecticut, I returned for a year back in Cambridge, then escaped the coastal metropolises by moving to Portsmouth New Hampshire. After three and a half years there, I relocated again (June 2004), away from the coasts for the first time, for a stint in Moscow Idaho. Next stop is wherever my interests take me, which isn't entirely up to me of course, but I'm hoping for a long stay at long last.
From 1995 to mid 2004 I was an ovo-lacto vegetarian, but I have since added seafood (mostly sashimi, but never cephalopods) and occasional poultry to my diet, and from 2005-2007 occasionally dined out on herbivorous mammal (but not pig).
My current hobbies are road biking (torrid fifteen mile sprints, not languid distance), road tripping, wilderness hiking, tennis, and photography (working in the 6x7 format on Fuji color reversal film, with digital post-production), with some fun additions planned. I have a stable of two cars, a 1996 VW GTI VR6 and a 2006 Cayman S.
I'm ecclectically musical, from a very musical family. I'm an occasional audio engineer and an audiophile of sorts (though not the hocus pocus kind). I recently added some decent video production gear to the mix, some of which is seen below in a photo (2006-Oct-11) of my home office/studio. As a point of trivia, the D3 main edit decks are from NBC New York, and at least one of them was originally used to produce Dateline NBC. I have to thank NBC for doing such a fabulous job maintaining their gear!
The background image is from a 1997 photograph of a pre-renovation wall painting in Senior House, my old MIT dorm. The theme is, of course, Alice in Wonderland. The original source image can be viewed here.
