David Librik Email & Phone Number

Champaign, Illinois

I am in charge of Microsoft Windows development for the kernel of Mathematica, and senior developer for its non-mathematical components (I/O, multithreading, parsing, memory management, etc.) I also port Unix libraries to Windows, maintain our Visual Studio project system, and help other developers track down tricky bugs. Wolfram is not a company with very rigid job descriptions, and I often end up as a "hired gun" on all sorts of miscellaneous tasks from GUI-writing to computational number… Show more I am in charge of Microsoft Windows development for the kernel of Mathematica, and senior developer for its non-mathematical components (I/O, multithreading, parsing, memory management, etc.) I also port Unix libraries to Windows, maintain our Visual Studio project system, and help other developers track down tricky bugs. Wolfram is not a company with very rigid job descriptions, and I often end up as a "hired gun" on all sorts of miscellaneous tasks from GUI-writing to computational number theory.I work primarily in C, enlisting more modern languages as necessary. I recently rewrote Mathematica to take advantage of 64-bit architectures: a mix of design analysis, CPU-level hackery, months of gruntwork, and the secret of getting other people to sign on to an apparently impossible project. (Which is: You have to do all the tedious work just up to the point where it looks deceptively like the next step is trivial.) Show less

Champaign, Illinois

I was on the three-man team that wrote Microsoft Space Simulator. I wrote most of the high-speed graphics code and the GUI menu system for controlling the spacecraft. This meant hand-crafting tens of thousands of lines in optimized x86 assembly language, which gave me a low-level efficient systems-programming mindset that still serves me well, and a headache only cured by graduate school. Although we shipped the product and won awards, game development is a young person's profession and I'm… Show more I was on the three-man team that wrote Microsoft Space Simulator. I wrote most of the high-speed graphics code and the GUI menu system for controlling the spacecraft. This meant hand-crafting tens of thousands of lines in optimized x86 assembly language, which gave me a low-level efficient systems-programming mindset that still serves me well, and a headache only cured by graduate school. Although we shipped the product and won awards, game development is a young person's profession and I'm glad my work isn't quite so fiendishly difficult anymore. Show less

M.A., Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Berkeley Linguistics Society

B.S., Computer Science And Mathematics

Activities and Societies: PLATO, Creative Lemmings Anonymous, Phi Beta Kappa Graduated Summa Cum Laude (Bronze Tablet) with highest.