ERIC POSTPISCHIL

I write software and do some mathematics. I was a software engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation, Sky Computers, EADS, Electronic Arts briefly, and Apple. As a result of being Apple's main FFT developer, my software is in billions of devices used by people around the world... I am analytical and rational. When I was eight, I knew I wanted to do mathematics. I also grew up reading science fiction voraciously. I am the type of person who would have played video games, but the early home video games were primitive. I spent a lot of time and quarters on arcade video games. Because early video games were exploring new media, they had a lot of novelty and experimentation that we lack today... The early computer games were fascinating because of the new things they were bringing into the world. The first time that a machine could tell the day of the week from your birth date, it was a new thing in the world, so it was interesting. Later came the excitement of Star Trek played with..

Primary location: Frankfurt Germany