James A. (Jim) Reeds
email: reedsj@dtc.umn.edu
phone: +1 609 279 6263
address:
CCR
805 Bunn Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
About these pages
These pages are graciously hosted by the Digital Technology
Center, whose long-suffering director seems to have taken a shine to my
``Monkeys and Typewriters''
page.
They recreate, in part, the undisciplined sprawl of pages I had
several years ago on my computer at a former job.
In the process of moving them to this new site some links have
been broken, and will in time be repaired.
About me
Trained as a mathematician and statistician, I figure myself a
broad but shallow thinker.
I am a couch potato. My hobbies: hiking and reading.
I have a respectable but not stellar Erdos number.
Here is a very brief CV:
Education
Michigan, BA 1969, Mathematics
Brandeis, MA 1972, Mathematics
Harvard, PhD 1976, Statistics
Positions
Asst. Prof, Statistics Department, UC Berkeley, 1977-1982
Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs/AT&T Labs, 1982-2002
Member of Research Staff, Center for Communications Research, 2002-present
I have lived in Iowa City, Fargo, Altoona, Heiligenkirchen, Detmold,
Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Los Angeles, Cambridge, Rosemont (MA and PA,
respectively), Berkeley, New Providence,
and Princeton.
I have met people who met (1st or 2nd or 3d hand)
various celebreties: a famous spy,
Dwight Eisenhower,
Sigmund Freud (via my mother-in-law's
high school Latin teacher, married to an early disciple),
the Emperor of Japan, and Bertold Brecht.
I have shaken
hands with a coelocanth, and a very nasty experience it was, too:
he was dripping
with formaldehyde.
My closest personal brush with celebrity was in high school, when I sat
next to Iggy Pop in social studies class.
Research Interests
History of Cryptography
Applied Mathematics
Probability
Braggy stuff
Some papers, unpublished and otherwise
Hobby horses
reedsj@dtc.umn.edu
Last modified: 24 March 2006