Cover letter for Jeffrey Palm
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I am interested in exciting projects that involve solving hard
problems.

I have built and helped build various programming language systems
including a programming language environment generator for my
undergraduate thesis, AspectJ at Xerox PARC, PUFFIN at the Nasa Ames
Research Center, Jikes Research Virtual Machine at IBM Research, and
the Concern Manipulation Environment at IBM Research.  I am currently
(on my own) writing a pure-Java MPEG-4 for mobile phones and (with my
company) building the network to support a television network.

I am on leave from the PhD program in Computer Science at Northeastern
University in Boston, MA.  I received my Masters at the University of
Colorado and BS in Computer Engineering with highest honors minoring
in Math at the University of Florida.  My publication and research
background is in compilers and programming languages, but my passion
is developing systems to make peoples' work/life easier -- be it
developers or web surfers.  There are huge barriers to break down to
make developing for the web and using it as efficient and enjoyable as
on PCs, and this will involve solving hard, nasty problems.  I want to
solve these.