Jonathan A. Rees

Current:

• Getting oriented to OCapN (object-capability transport protocol) and Spritely
• Helping out with BioKIC (at Arizona State)
• I have an ongoing interest in reference, compositionality, meaning, and identity in artificial languages, following on from earlier "semantic web", robotics, and taxonomy work

Past me:

• MIT Probabilistic Computing Laboratory, 2017-20
• I worked on Open Tree of Life, an aggregator of phylogenetic trees
• I worked for Science Commons where among other things I was involved in the genesis of CC0
• I served on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) for a while
• I worked for Millennium Pharmaceuticals on target discovery
• I scanned Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, which started publishing in 1874, and found it a new home
• Helped write Scheme 48 and Yale Scheme a.k.a. 'T'

By me:

• For publication lists see my ORCID record or Google Scholar profile or CV
• Contributed to Scientific names of organisms: attribution, rights, and licensing by Patterson et al., BMC Research Notes 2014, 7:79
• Wrote Addressing the technical friction points in open science for Workshop on Research and Resource Commons in Scientific Research, Washington College of Law, American University, 17 November 2011.
• Here is a figure from Collett and Rees 1997, showing how Vespula wasps return repeatedly to a food source
• A short memo on security prepared for the W3C TAG, 2009
• Pi and e frieze, 2000

Antisocial media:

• Pinboard
• Email: (beware spam filter)
• PGP public key
• To my friends: For access to my 'blog (70+ posts going back to 2009), contact me. Technically it's public, but I prefer for now not to make it indexable.

Things on this web site:

• Allan Schreiber. Earthworks, Ann Arbor's first alternative high school: A personal history. 2006.
• Preston C. Hammer