Jon A Preston
Autobiography
Born in North Carolina, I grew up in Tampa, Florida. I attended Georgia Institute of Technology where I completed my
undergraduate and graduate work in Computer Science with specializations in
Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, and Educational Technologies
in 1997 and 1998.
I received my PhD from Georgia State's CS Department
- research focus on real-time collaborative editing systems - in 2007.I have been teaching Computer Science and Information Technology in various
capacities since 1995. I am currently teaching in the Department
of Information Technology at Clayton State University. I have also been involved in three startup companies: a 508-compliance
for higher-education company (2001), an on-line survey and consulting group
(1999), and a computer game development company (1994). In addition to my
faith and family, my passions are teaching, programming, and gaming. While
I stay quite busy, I'm always interested in taking a break for a good game or
"geek" conversation!
Gaming
In the brief moments when I am able to find time and "decompress," I am
currently playing Roadwar 2000 (SSI), Secret of the Silver Blades (SSI),
and Ultima 7
part 2: Serpent Isle
(Origin). Others in the queue include: SpellForce and Neverwinter Nights 2.
I collect classic PC games (dating as old as 1984). If you have them to
sell/trade, please contact me. In particular, I am interested in acquiring old
Sierra, SSI, and Origin games.
An interesting tile puzzle game solved.
Other Areas of Interest
Quotes
- "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is
possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is
impossible, he is very probably wrong." - ARTHUR C CLARKE
- "Someone needs to malloc some cokes in here" - PETER WAN
- "Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and
the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of
his actions and will receive blame or praise for them. Liberty and
responsibility are inseparable." - FRIEDRICH HAYEK
- "Maybe money can't buy happiness, but it sure gives a good impression of
a long-term lease." - BEN STEIN
- "Now the trouble with trying to make yourself stupider than you are is
that you often succeed." - C. S. LEWIS
- "It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn,
and how many more believe learning to be difficult." - FRANK HERBERT
- There's no use having a universe, a cosmology, if you don't have
witnesses. We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here
by creation, by God. We're here to be the audience to the magnificent.
It is our job to celebrate." - RAY BRADBURY
- "Education does not have a terminus, a polar extreme, a finish line, an
outcome. Instead it is a deposit, an endowment, promise, and
even a small taste of the future." - GEORGE GRANT
- "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we
created them." - ALBERT EINSTEIN
