Acton, Massachusetts (one hour west of Boston)
I'm an engineer working in the microarchitecture division of Intel. My expertise is in the area of computer architecture. My current interests include reconfigurable logic computing, performance modeling, prediction, memory subsystem organization and multithreading. Here are some of my publications.
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In my spare time I am a professor of the practice at MIT. I also hold an amateur radio license WB9BWB, although I haven't been very active recently. I am also interested in the history of radio technology, and have a small collection of antique broadcast radios. I enjoy tennis and cross-country skiing. I also am trying to learn how to speak Spanish.
I am a cat enthusiast. I like to go downhill skiing and
like calligraphy.
I'm an idealist without illusions.
- President John F. Kennedy
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From a very young age, I have been passionate about bringing positive change to my community and country. I strongly believe that the often over-looked details of laws and regulations can have a profound impact on the lives of ordinary people. |
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Currently, I am working as a health care policy analyst for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the past, I was a research intern at the Massachusetts State House for State Senator Jamie Eldridge, and was the leader of a 200-person volunteer organization for Mr. Eldridge's campaign for the U.S. Congress. |
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In 2009, I graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a major in Politics and minors in Economics and English/American Literature. My senior thesis, described below, focused on environmental policy. During my upperclassman years, I worked at the Gordon Center for American Public Policy where I assisted in the development of a forthcoming multi-authored volume on politics and policymaking during George W. Bush's Presidency. At Brandeis, I was also president of the Brandeis Democrats, tutored middle school students from the Waltham Public Schools, and was selected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. |
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In 2005, I graduated from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School (AB). At AB, I was the Editor-in-Chief of The Spectrum, the school paper, and was the student director of the AB Recycling Team. |
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In my free time, I can be found playing soccer, cross-country skiing, and camping. |
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Political Strategy and Policy Choice: A Case Study of the Clear Skies Initiative- In my senior thesis, I investigated the impact of electoral considerations on the development of George W. Bush's Clear Skies air pollution policy. I also analyzed what happened when the Clear Skies Initiative met opposition in Congress and the courts. I received a research grant from the Research Circle on Democracy and Pluralism to conduct interviews in Washington D.C. My advisor was Professor Martin A. Levin. (Electronic copies of the thesis can be obtained by sending an e-mail to david AT emer DOT org.) |
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Eldridge Sees Big Picture- a letter to the editor I wrote to the Acton Beacon newspaper in support of State Senator Jamie Eldridge's run for Congress. It was published on 8/23/2007. |
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H3903- An Act Establishing Biannual Tax Incidence Reports by the Commissioner of Revenue- A bill that was first filed by State Senator Jamie Eldridge in 2007 based on my research on tax policy. If enacted, this law would direct the Massachusetts Department of Revenue to study how different state and local taxes affect different income groups every two years, and report the study's findings to the Legislature. If this information were available for Massachusetts, it would allow legislators to make better informed decisions about changes in tax policy. The bill is modeled after a Minnesota law. |
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Train Magazine - the external web site of a magazine that I published from 1997-2002. I interviewed former MA Governor Michael Dukakis in his capacity as Vice-Chair of Amtrak's Board. |
| Spectrum Archives- PDF versions of The Spectrum, AB's school newspaper, from the 2004-2005 school-year. |
| Recycling Speech- A speech about my high school's recycling program that I delivered at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Awards Night on January 5, 2004. |
My LinkedIn profile is here
I'm seventeen years old. I am a gung-ho trekkie and I love to play soccer.
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