Dale Schumacher, Professional Gadfly

Dale Schumacher is passionate about applying computer technology to enhance human capabilities. In pursuit of this goal he continues to explore and learn about the nature of human/computer systems. In the last three decades this has included: agile and lean organizational processes, distributed enterprise systems, web-based applications, real-time embedded systems, language design, simulations, digital imaging and computer visualization. He is a polyglot programmer facinated with the diversity of problem-solving approaches inherent in each computational model.

His open-source contributions include: communication protocols, standard libraries for C, the "clean" font family for the X-Window system, enhancements to the Minix O/S kernel and a Java servlet-based wiki. He contributed to "Graphics Gems" volumes I, II and III, and edited the collective work "Software Solutions in C". Outside of coaching and mentoring, his focus the last few years has been on the development of an Actor Based Environment for prototyping actor solutions. He prefers to work in collaboration with others, and values craftsmanship and intrinsic quality in all his work.