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JCP is short for John C. Peterson.
JCP is short for John C. Peterson.


My formal academic training is in the area of Mathematics and Physics (double major, BA), Applied Mathematics (MS), and Mechanical Engineering (MS). My interests in those disciplines continues to this day, with an emphasis on computational physics, and scientific computing in general.
I live in San Diego, California and work on a consultant basis in a variety of scientific disciplines, (where computing is usually involved in some way or another). If Linux is to be used in the work, that is always a ''good'' thing in my book.


My earliest practical experience with computers dates back to the late 1960's. In the early 1980's, I worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. There I was first exposed to UNIX (the Symbolic Symbolic Manipulation Program, or SMP, which eventually became Mathematica, only ran on UNIX machines at the time) and I also enjoyed working on the super-computers of that era (mainly the CDC 7600, and the CRAY-1S).
== Contact Information ==
Please see my [http://jcp.fedorapeople.org/ Fedora People] page for more information.


== Interests ==
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Mathematics, Engineering and Science are inherently very collaborative endeavors. The open source development model of Linux distributions like Fedora are both very familiar and comfortable for people like myself who are from these disciplines. In a Linux environment, the tools I use for scientific computing can evolve as needed, and just exactly what they do can be unambiguously verified by a direct inspection of the source.
 
I hope to assist with the packaging of new and useful tools for scientific computing on Fedora Linux. I have a high degree of interest in automated theorem proving, SAT and SMT solvers, and formal languages with a focus on both applications (e.g. software and hardware verification, systems biology) and formalized proofs in pure mathematics.
 
== Other Hobbies ==
 
Some other prominent hobbies of mine include; amateur radio (Technician Class, KD6EKQ), general aviation (private pilot with Glider, ASEL category ratings), and driving motorcycles (1973 Kawasaki Z1, 1989 Kawasaki ZX10).

Latest revision as of 04:50, 23 November 2016

Welcome to all Fedora Linux enthusiasts!

JCP is short for John C. Peterson.

I live in San Diego, California and work on a consultant basis in a variety of scientific disciplines, (where computing is usually involved in some way or another). If Linux is to be used in the work, that is always a good thing in my book.

Contact Information

Please see my Fedora People page for more information.

Fedora Project Badges

You can call me "Patches" (SCM I) Involvement If you build it... (Koji Success I) If you build it... (Koji Success II) Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing I) Like a Rock (Updates-Stable I) Egg In Search of the Bull (Tester I) Junior Badger (Badger I) Bona Fide Delivery Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build II) You can call me "Patches" (SCM II) Corporate Drone Take this and call me in the morning You can call me "Patches" (SCM III) Amateur Radio SIG Member Is this thing on? (Updates-Testing II) Froglet Embryo Building the Outer Ring (Copr Build I) Let Me Introduce Myself Associate Badger (Badger 1.5) Tadpole Crypto Badger Tadpole with Legs Adult Frog

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