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John Nelson is a software developer with over 24 years of industry experience, the most recent 15 years as a consultant to companies such as McDonnell Douglas, MCI, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. John is currently president at Computation.com Inc., a small IT consultancy headquartered in the Commonwealth of Virginia. John's specialty is perhaps his lack of specialization, having developed code for everything from avionics systems to large backend financial systems, to the video and media oriented products of the Midnight Mage. John remembers well the introduction of the Apple Macintosh computer in 1984. In 1989, he began developing object-oriented software on the Macintosh II fx computer with 24 bit color and then purchased his first Mac II cx in 1990. In 1992, John participated in the development of a Macintosh based maritime collision avoidance system. Soon after, John purchased his first NeXT cube and then OpenStep on Intel hardware, spedning the next nine years developing enterprise software under NeXTStep and Enterprise Object Framework. In 2001, Apple Computer released Mac OS X, merging OpenStep with the Macintosh interface. John returned to developing software under Apple's new Mac OS X, Xcode and the familiar NeXTStep API's with the purchase of a G5 tower and G4 Powerbook. Mr. Nelson is also a member of the Society of Market Technicians, a non-profit organization whose members meet regularly to discuss and share their techniques for analyzing futures, stocks and options. He is an avid computer gamer with an interest in the underlying technology for designing and rendering computer games. Finally, when he finds the time, Mr. Nelson works on his Masters thesis project, an evolutionary computation study of a proteomics problem known as The Protein Folding Problem. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. | 