Ian McEwen

= Biography =

Ian was born in Flagstaff, Arizona in 1989 and remembers that time almost not at all. Ian and family moved to Tucson, Arizona when Ian was 6. Ian is currently a Division II (finally) student living off-campus.

Although not nearly as purely (ridiculously, often) idealistic as some, Ian is a Free/Open Source Software activist with a strong disinterest in the use of proprietary systems (software, information, formats, and just about everything else) both in his own systems and those of those he associates with. He was, when present in the proper state, a relatively regular participant in the Ubuntu-Arizona "LoCo" Team, and is an active user of Arch Linux nowadays. He is an Associate Student Member of the Free Software Foundation. He would very much like you to use encryption, especially in electronic communication, and signs all his email using his GPG key, available from any self-respecting keyserver (keyid 7131A76F). If you send me encrypted email, I will have a slightly higher opinion of you (you should be doing it anyway). I might give you a high-five or something.

Ian is also severely overinterested in the Lisp family of programming languages (specifically Common Lisp, although he is using Scheme for a project right now). He also frequently uses Python, and a variety of other languages have been in his purview in the past. His github page may be of interest.

Ian is also an erstwhile polyglot; he knows English securely, German with relatively high proficiency (due to five years of pre-college education, a few weeks of summer course, and some short forays into German-speaking countries), and Esperanto from self-teaching and is currently learning several languages, in various degrees: Japanese through self-teaching, Yoruba through the Five College Center for the Study of World Languages, and American Sign Language, previously through the Hampshire College class (now in maintenance). Acquiring language proficiencies is a hobby of his, which he greatly enjoys.

Ian writes fiction, at varying levels of prolificacy depending on time and circumstance, and finds some of his closest friends outside of Hampshire within writerly circles. His main writing "event" is National Novel Writing Month in November, during which participants attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in thirty days. The quality of the writing is low, but the social aspects are better, and with editing the stories can even occasionally be rescued!

Music is another of Ian's (eternally too) occasional hobbies; he has played piano since the age of 5, played trombone for 5 years but has not indulged recently, sings, and has dabbled in other instruments from pennywhistle to percussion. He's also a nerd of less pretentious music, enjoying every genre (so long as the music is subjectively "good"). He loves the FLAC format for audio and evangelizes it mercilessly.

Through his experiences growing up as a Quaker, Ian has developed somewhat of an interest in the varieties of religious practice and philosophy. While he is a practicing nontheist (whatever that means), Ian is also a Quaker.

Ian doesn't have anything more to say, except to advertise his own site, however infrequently updated: http://www.ianmcorvidae.net - if you'd like to hear more, feel free to pester him about updating that site; he might even do it! (also of note is that his username just about everywhere is ianmcorvidae, and pretty much nobody else (if anyone) uses it - so if you see him, say hello!)

= Academics =

Official

 * in class::Pa'lante: Raising Voices/Fostering Change (tutorial) at Hampshire
 * in class::Artificial Intelligence in 3D Virtual Worlds at Hampshire
 * in class::Mandala, Mummy and Magical Medicine: Studying Buddhism Through Material Objects at Hampshire
 * in class::American Sign Language I at Hampshire

Independent Study and EPEC

 * (Independent Study and EPEC)

Official
None!

Independent Study and EPEC

 * (Independent Study and EPEC, teaching)
 * (Independent Study and EPEC)
 * in independent study::Project Apricot (Independent Study)
 * (EPEC)

Official

 * in class::Modern Algebra at Hampshire
 * in class::Minority Languages and Linguistic Descriptions at Hampshire
 * in class::American Sign Language II at Hampshire

Independent Study and EPEC

 * (EPEC)
 * in independent study::Project Apricot (Independent Study)
 * in independent study::Common Lisp and Scheme Programming (Independent Study with Lee Spector)

Official

 * in class::Probability and Statistics for Engineers at Smith
 * in class::Linguistic Variation at Hampshire
 * in class::Yoruba I-II independently/at UMass/Five College Center for the Study of World Languages

Independent Study and EPEC

 * (EPEC)
 * (EPEC)

Teaching Assistant

 * ta for::Code Immersion at Hampshire

Official

 * in class::Improving TheHub at Hampshire
 * in class::Yoruba III-IV independently/at UMass/Five College Center for the Study of World Languages

Independent Study and EPEC

 * in independent study::CLRS Algorithms (Independent Study with Lee Spector, collaboratively with Harshit Rathi)
 * (EPEC)
 * (EPEC)
 * (EPEC)
 * (EPEC)

Official

 * in class::Logic in Computer Science at UMass
 * in class::Microprocessors and Assembly Language at Smith
 * Dropped: Yoruba V (UMass/FCCSWL)

Independent Study and EPEC

 * (EPEC)

Official

 * in class::Theory of Computation at UMass (otherwise known as "601")
 * in class::Database Design and Implementation at UMass

Independent Study/EPEC

 * in epec class::Graph Theory (EPEC + independent study)

Official

 * in class::Developing theHub at Hampshire
 * Division 3 Work!

= Clubs =

Current Signer/Leader

 * in student group::EPEC (signer and coordinator)
 * in student group::The Omen (signer, editor, frequently layout monkey)
 * in student group::Hampedia Project (Board of Trustees member, signer)

Attendee

 * in student group::Circus Folk Unite!
 * in student group::Excalibur

Partially Defunct

 * in student group::SMIFF (ex-signer)
 * in student group::GLUG/in student group::Hacktivism (also known as "Hampshire Hacktivists") (ex-signer for both; largely the same group)

Previously attended

 * in student group::ASL Collective (ex-signer)
 * in student group::Re-rad (ex-signer)
 * in student group::Magic Draft (ex-signer)

Defunct

 * in student group::Polyglot Society (previously Esperanto-klubo) (ex-signer)
 * in student group::Language
 * in student group::The Hampshire College Space Program
 * in student group::Chocolate Club
 * in student group::Hampshire Quakers (ex-signer)