Biography

Last updated on 6-Mar-2006 4:34AM CST.

Background

Jeffrey Coleman Carlyle was born on October 22, 1978 (October 22 throughout history) in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Jeff's mother, Donna Carlyle, is a retired school teacher. She was a teacher of mathematics at Warren East High School for twenty-nine years. His father, the late Philip Carlyle, was a supervisor for Minit Mart Foods, Inc. at their corporate offices in Bowling Green. Jeff's only sibling, his sister Alison, was born in 1983.

Jeff's early years were spent in and around Bowling Green. He was active in Cub Scouts and, eventually, Boy Scouts. Jeff is an Eagle Scout from Boy Scout Troop 202 based in Bowling Green.

Jeff became interested in computers at a young age. By the time he entered middle school he had taught himself how to program. Throughout middle school and high school, Jeff was very active in the Bowling Green BBS scene. His handle was Peg Leg. He was a member of a BGAMUG and ran The Rift BBS with his friend David Raney.

In high school, Jeff was involved with many activities including academic team, French club, Physics Un-Club, Math Club, Beta Club, and computer programming competitions.

Jeff entered college at the University of Evansville in 1997. There Jeff was a member of and president of the ACM Student Chapter, IEEE Student Chapter, Eta Kappa Nu Honorary Society, Resident Student Association, Student Christian Fellowship, and participated in several programming competitions. Jeff was employed by the Internet Applications Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science while at Evansville.

Jeff is a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at the Univesity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He entered graduate school there in the fall semester of 2001. For three years, Jeff was a teaching assistant for the CS department. He assisted thousands of students through CS 323 (Operating Systems Design) and CS 321 (Programming Languages and Compilers). In the summers of 2004 and 2005, Jeff taught CS 231 (Computer Architecture I). He now works on his doctoral thesis and as a senior software engineer for Motorola, Inc. in Champaign, Illinois.

Interests

Besides his obvious interest in computers, Jeff is also interested in transportation, primarily highways. He likes to explore; sometimes he will drive hours out of the way just to go someplace he has never been before. Related to his love exploring, but perhaps somewhat at odds with his love of transportation, Jeff also enjoys nature. His love of exploring the forested hills and valleys behind his boyhood home has expanded into a love of exploring every hill and every forest he can.

Jeff enjoys listening to music. Music from groups such as Radiohead, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Tool make up the sound track of his life. Jeff enjoys listening to live music whenever he gets a chance. His love of concerts lead to him traveling to England after college graduation to see a Radiohead concert in their hometown of Oxford.

Time Line

Below is a very incomplete list of major events in the life of Jeffrey Coleman Carlyle.

1978	October 22: Born to Philip and Donna Carlyle in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983	October 2: Only sibling, a sister, Alison, born.
1984	August: Started school at Warren Elementary School.	Attended Warren Elementary School
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991	August: Started school at Henry F. Moss Middle School.	Attended Henry F. Moss Middle School
1992	June: Excursion to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico with Boy Scouut Troop 202. November 25: Purchased first computer.	Attended Henry F. Moss Middle School
1993	January: Article "Clearing Killer Keystrokes" published in PC World. June: Attended Boy Scout National Jamboree. August: Started school at Warren Central High School.	Attended Warren Central High School
1994	June: First excursion to Europe with Boy Scouts.
1995	April: Placed first in a programming contest at the University of Evansville. June: An excursion to France with Warren East High School French Club.
1996	March 16: Interviewed on WBKO about a bridge building contest at Western Kentucky University. October: Became an Eagle Scout in Boy Scout Troop 202.
1997	April: Placed first in programming contests at the University of Evansville and Middle Tennessee State University. May: Graduated from high school. August 27: Started school at the University of Evansville.	Student at University of Evansville
1998	Fall: Attended Harlaxton College in Lincolnshire, England. (See some pictures here.)
1999	April: Appeared on television and in newspapers again when interviewed about a computer programming contest at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. August: Began working in Internet Applications Laboratory.
2000	April: Placed first in a programming contest at IEEE SoutheastCon in Nashville, TN.
2001	February: Attended the ACM SIGCSE 2001 conference in Charlotte, NC. April: Competed in the hardware competition as IEEE's SoutheastCon at Clemson University. May 5: Graduated from the University of Evansville. July 5-10: Vacationed in England. Attended Radiohead concert at South Park in Oxford. August 22: Began classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Fall: TA for CS 323 with Prof. Nahrstedt	Student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2002	Spring and Summer: TA for CS 323 with Prof. Campbell Fall: TA for CS 323 with Prof. Nahrstedt
2003	Spring: TA for CS 323 with Prof. Zhou; Received Michael S. Hughes Software Engineering Award Summer: TA for CS 321 with Instructor Beckman Fall: TA for CS 323 with Prof. Campbell
2004	Spring: TA for CS 323 with Prof. Zhou Summer: Taught CS 231. Faill: Began working as a graduate assistant at the Grainger Engineering Library.
2005	Summer: Taught CS 231. July 18: Began working for Motorola.
2006