martyn

Basic Information

Real Name

Martyn Welch

Location

Northampton, UK

Mini Bio

After growing up in South East London, Martyn decided to escape the fast paced life of London for university life at Lancaster University. During an extended university education, Martyn completed a MEng Mechatronics Degree with the engineering department, then obtained a MPhil (with distinction), before spending a year as a research assistant with the ubiqutous computing group. He was then dragged back towards the south for work and is currently working as an embedded systems engineer specialising in Linux porting/development.

Further Information

• Martyn's name is on the New York Times Firefox Advert. (Yes it was me who got it there)
• Martyn is one of the ORG's "Founding 1000".
  
• Martyn is a contributor to the Linux kernel

Links

• Personal website
• Introduction to Running and Programming Linux, written as part of my Masters Report.
• MPhil Thesis: Techniques for angle estimation in ultrasonic positioning systems [bib]
• Paper (co-authored): A human-verifiable authentication protocol using visible laser light [bib]

History

Member for

4 years 5 weeks