Joseph J. Strout

...more than you ever wanted to know

This site is designed and maintained by yours truly, Joe Strout. Here's some information about me for the truly curious (or bored) web-surfer.

Contact Information

	Work Phone: 858-558-6853
	E-mail: joe@strout.net ICQ#: 8108050

Education

A.B. (Honors) in Psychology (Minor in Mathematics) from Miami University in Oxford, OH. May 1994.

M.S. in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego. June 1997.

For more information, see my resumé (now a bit outdated).

Occupation

I'm the founder and current CEO of Verified Express, LLC, a company whose heartfelt goal is to fix all the world's e-mail problems.

Research Interests

In my previous work, I pursued a graduate career in neuroscience. Here's a description of the sort of thing I used to do:

I have been interested in artificial neural networks for many years. In particular, I have developed an algorithm for learning temporal sequences of patterns, and a model of classical conditioning. Lately, I have grown more interested in biologically realistic neural modeling.

At Miami University, I was involved in psychophysical experimentation and computational modeling related to human motion perception. We developed a two-channel motion model to account for various effects of the interframe interval in a two-frame apparent motion stimulus.

In my first year of graduate school (at the University of California, San Diego), I spent a quarter in each of several labs. These included the Computational Neurobiology Lab under Terrence Sejnowski, and physiological work on the medicinal leech under Bill Kristan. I also spent a couple years at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, under the direction of Mark Ellisman, and another year studying the electrophysiology of displaced retinal ganglion cells (a particular subpopulation of neurons in the retina).

Programming

Computer programming has been my primary hobby and occasional occupation, and is now my full-time career. In addition to the Applesoft programs included under Publications, I have written various utilities for VMS, DOS, and Macintosh. Many of the VMS utilities are written in FORTRAN because that was the only language available to me at the time. The DOS programs were written with C or C++; older Mac programs were written with Think C or C++. (I have some handy C++ classes and MacOS code which are free for personal use.) All my new projects are done in REALbasic.

Publications

Strout, J. "MiniScript: A new Language for Computer Programming Education" 2021 6th International STEM Education Conference (iSTEM-Ed) (2021).

Strout, J. "Postmortem: Zombies" REALbasic Developer 5.1:15-20,33 (Sep/Oct 2006).

Strout, J. "The StringUtils Module" REALbasic Developer 5.1:29-33 (Sep/Oct 2006).

Strout, J. "Refactoring REALbasic Code" REALbasic Developer 4.5:31-33,50 (May/Jun 2006).

Strout, J. "Maze Generation" REALbasic Developer 3.6:18-21 (Jul/Aug 2005).

Strout, J. "Mouse Gestures." REALbasic Developer 3.4:16-18,37 (Mar/Apr 2005).

Strout, J. "Vector Graphics." REALbasic Developer 3.2:17-19,48 (Nov/Dec 2004).

Strout, J. "Mixins Without Multiple Inheritance" Dr. Dobb's Journal #368:37-39 (Jan 2005).

Strout, J. "Command-line RBScript." REALbasic Developer 3.1:24-26 (Sep/Oct 2004).

Strout, J. "Renegades: A real-time 3D game engine." REALbasic Developer 2.4:18-22 (Feb/Mar 2004).

Strout, J., & Quan, J. "The Fine Art of Blowing Stuff Up." REALbasic Developer 2.2:17-22 (Oct/Nov 2003).

Strout, J. "Real-Time Mesh Deformation." REALbasic Developer 2.1:13-20 (Aug/Sep 2003).

Strout, J. "Quesa Declares: 3D graphics beyond the usual limits." REALbasic Developer 1.6:22-26,48-49 (Jun/Jul 2003).

Strout, J. "The REALbasic Compiler: New & Improved." REALbasic Developer 1.5:25-26,48 (Apr/May 2003).

Strout, J. "Path-Finding: For Independent Developers." REALbasic Developer 1.5:15-20 (Apr/May 2003).

Strout, J. "Physics for Game Developers (book review)." REALbasic Developer 1.4:8 (Feb/Mar 2003).

Strout, J. "Build a 'First-Person Shooter'." REALbasic Developer 1.3:18-24 (Dec/Jan 2002).

Strout, J. "Basic 3D Math." REALbasic Developer 1.2:24-26 (Oct/Nov 2002).

Strout, J. "Three Ways to Animate." REALbasic Developer 1.1:18-23,27 (Aug/Sep 2002).

Strout, J. "Declaring External Functions in REALbasic." MacTech 17(12):20-27 (2001).

Strout, J. "Learning from Leonardo." MacTech 15(10):22-25 (1999).

Strout, J. "Mind Uploading: an alternative path to immortality." Cryonics 19:26-30 (1998).

Strout, J. "The Philosophy and Technology of Mind Uploading." SciFi-Arizona Writer's Workshop, August 1997. Available as a PDF file.

Strout, J. "A library for the compartmental simulation of neurons." Neuroscience-Net, v. 2, Article #00013 (1997).

Strout, J., Chow, A., Thornhill, W., Ellisman, M., and Rudy, B. "Expression of K+ Channel Proteins in the Medial Nucleus of the Trapezoid Body." Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, v. 22, p. 1752 (1996).

Strout, J. "CONICAL: The Computational Neuroscience Class Library." Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society p. 849 (1996).
Please see the CONICAL Web Site.

Strout, J., Pantle, A., & Mills, S. "An energy model of interframe interval effects in single-step apparent motion." Vision Research Vol. 34, No. 23, p. 3233-3240 (Nov. 1994). Abstract available.

Strout, J. "Matchword." Nibble Vol. 13, No. 4, p. 20-24 (April 1992).
A programmable memory game for zero to two players. Computer opponent adapts to player's level to keep the game challanging but not frustrating. (featured game)

Strout, J. "Nibble Ancestry." Nibble Vol. 12, No. 6, p. 8-14 (June 1991).
A geneolgy database program for the Apple II; also discusses emulating pointers and tree structures in BASIC. (cover feature)

Strout, J. "Sound Wizard." Nibble Vol. 11, No. 4, p. 18-24 (April 1990).
A machine-language extension to the Applesoft BASIC programming language which provides a flexible sound effect generator for the Apple II. (cover feature)

Family

My spouse, Michelle Mills Strout, and my brother, Dave Strout, are both on the web.

I've also started collecting information on my family tree. Genealogists and potential relatives will find a host of useful info there.

http://www.strout.net/info/personal/index.html
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