Rik Faith
- Dissertation
- Other
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I received my MD from the University
of South Florida College of Medicine in 1990.
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I've been using Linux since about March 1992, and have worked
on many Linux projects over the years.
In the June 1, 2000 edition, Linux Journal included me in a
profile
of early Linux contributors.
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The Sitterson Thermometer shows the
temperature inside and outside the Computer Science building at
the University of North Carolina. Steve
Tell designed and built the serial port thermometer; and I
wrote the server software. (This one hasn't been working in a while,
but here is another one
that Steve also built.)
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DICT, a Dictionary Server
Protocol, is a new client/server protocol for serving human
language dictionaries that Bret Martin and I designed.
The protocol is described in RFC 2229.
There are two main web-based front-ends for the DICT server
that, together with freely-available command-line clients,
generate 25,000 queries each day (about 120k queries each day in 2003):
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Some of my earlier work at UNC is also available:
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Please see Rik Faith's Home Page
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Please also see Melissa Clepper-Faith's Home Page
