Guy Wyant is an infrequent illeist.
He has a great passion for the field of Human/Computer Interaction, and hopes that the importance of user experience will continue to gain mindshare among professionals.
He enjoys writing and designing web applications, using a cocktail of the usual suspects, PHP and Postgres or MySQL, with a healthy shot of jQuery.
He likes learning about learning, and interesting ways to make the process more enjoyable and effective for all.
The use of language is another interesting thing: its failings, abilities, and possibilities.
He took part in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program sponsored by the National Science Foundation in 2009.
In this REU, under the direction of the superb Dr. Douglas Harms, he and Scott Fahle redesigned the graphical subsystem of a virtual reality simulation of the ENIAC (the first reprogrammable electronic computer).
He presented his REU research at the Argonne Laboratory’s 2009 Argonne Symposium for Undergraduate Research, and at University of Evansville’s own Undergraduate Research Conference in Math, Engineering, and Science (MESCON) in March 2010.
He earned his BS in Computer Science at the University of Evansville.
He performed research under the direction of Dr. Tony Beavers in the Digital Humanities Laboratory, on conducting Automatic Document Classification using Dynamic Associative Networks.
He was lucky enough to marry the beautiful Jennifer Stinnett on August 15, 2010.
He likes TED: Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world.
He is interested in human cognition and its physio-mechanical origins.
He reserves the right to change any of these things about himself.