Richard Friedman

Current

• Senior Staff Information Engineer at Sun Microsystems

Past

• Programming Analyst at Applied Parallel Research
• Programming Analyst at Pacific Sierra Research
• Systems Programmer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Systems Programmer at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, U of California
• Systems Programmer at Courant Institute, New York University

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Education

• Polytechnic University

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Richard Friedman’s Summary

Information design, technical documentation.
High performance technical computing, scientific and technical computing since 1965.
Teaching programming and programming techniques.

Richard Friedman’s Specialties:

Software developer documentation, programming languages. High performance computing for scientific/engineering/industrial applications.

Richard Friedman’s Experience

• Senior Staff Information Engineer

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Software industry)

  July 1995 — Present (13 years 1 month)

  Lead technical writer for C/C++/Fortran compilers and tools. Specialize in high performance technical computing for science and industry. A systems and applications programmer since 1962 at NYU, and the Lawrence Berkeley Lab at Univ of California, Berkeley, was always the programmer who wrote the documentation. Now senior documentation specialist for programming languages at Sun Microsystems, Menlo Park CA.
  See http://blogs.sun.com/rchrd for details.

• Programming Analyst

  Applied Parallel Research

  (Computer Software industry)

  1993 — 1995 (2 years)

• Programming Analyst

  Pacific Sierra Research

  (Computer Software industry)

  1982 — 1992 (10 years)

• Systems Programmer

  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  (Computer Software industry)

  1968 — 1982 (14 years)

• Systems Programmer

  Lawrence Berkeley Lab, U of California

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1968 — July 1982 (14 years 2 months)

• Systems Programmer

  Courant Institute, New York University

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

  June 1965 — May 1968 (3 years)

  Systems programmer, early supercomputer installation. Control Data 6600 (serial 4). Maintained compilers and libraries.

Richard Friedman’s Education

• Polytechnic University

  BS (1964), Math/Physics, 1960 — 1965

  Worked part-time in the computer center as a programmer:
  1962-64 - IBM 650
  1964-65 - IBM 7044
  
  1964-65: Teaching fellowship in the computer center.

  Activities and Societies:

  (Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn)
  Formed the Student Chapter, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Additional Information

Richard Friedman’s Interests:

Interested in applications of technology to the arts, particularly music and photography. Weekly radio show on KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco - MUSIC FROM OTHER MINDS, http://rchrd.com/mfom/

Richard Friedman’s Groups:

President, Board of Directors, Other Minds
See http://www.otherminds.org/

•    Obama for America member
•    High Performance & Super Computing member

Richard Friedman’s Contact Settings

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