Let me introduce myself. I was born in California but grew up in Ontario, Canada. I became interested in all things computer related at a young age. I was lucky enough to have been introduced to Unix in my first teenage year and Linux some 2 years later. Soon after, I began writing free software programs. My most recent and relevant free software contributions have been to the GNOME Desktop as well as the Linux kernel. I attended McMaster University for both my undergraduate and graduate degrees. Sometime during my undergraduate years I thought it would be cool to write a real time physics engine, and I have been doing that ever since. I have now moved to California to continue that work.

Mail: john@johnmccutchan.com

Location: Bay Area, California

Mobile: 650.863.4695

• Inotify: the Linux file system event notification subsystem
• Cactus: a 3D rigid body physics simulation engine
• Tetradraw: an ANSI art editor for Linux

• Bullet: an open source physics engine used by many free and commercial games
• gvfs: the glib virtual file system
• GnomeVFS: the GNOME virtual file system

• Gamin: an independet implementation of File Alteration Monitor
• Totem: a media player for the GNOME desktop

• Jacques Carette, Spencer Smith, John McCutchan, Christopher Anand and Alexandre Korobkine (2008) Case Studies in Model Manipulation for Scientific Computing, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation (AISC)
• Spencer Smith, Jacques Carette, John McCutchan (2008) Commonality Analysis of Families of Physical Models for use in Scientific Computing, First International Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering, Leipzig, Germany.
• Jacques Carette, Spencer Smith, John McCutchan, Christopher Anand and Alexandre Korobkine (2007) Model manipulation as part of a better development process for scientific computing code, Technical Report 48, Software Quality Research Laboratory, McMaster University.
• John McCutchan (2007) A generative approach to a virtual material testing laboratory, Masters Thesis, McMaster University.

• Enhancing GnomeVFS file monitoring: Guadec 2006
• Understanding and using Inotify: Desktop Developers Conference 2005

• Masters of Science (Computer Science) (2007) Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, Thesis: A generative approach to a virtual material testing laboratory
• Honours Bachelors of Science (Computer Science) (2005) Department of Computing and Software, McMcaster University

© 2008–2008 John McCutchan