Matt Sparks: The Life and Times

Matt Sparks

Matt Sparks received his first dose of artificial light in a hospital in Marion, Illinois in early 1986. He lived in Marion until age five, when he made the journey to his so-called hometown of Charleston, Illinois (home of EIU). Matt spent his elementary years in Charleston. Partly into the freshman year at Charleston High School, he moved to the Springfield, Illinois area. Matt finished off his high school career in Chatham at Glenwood High School with the class of 2004.

In December 2008, he completed his B.S. in Computer Science in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Matt now has a master's degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, completed in June 2011.

Interests

Software

Music

I Advocate...

open source, freedom, knowledge, intelligence, optimal algorithms, mathematics, theory, controversial topics, atheism, libertarianism, IRC, logic, debates, logical debates, technology, security, encryption, XMPP, LaTeX, efficiency, organization, automation, syndication, elegance, ...

... in no particular order.

"f0rked"

Refer to the fork() system call in Unix for an explanation. See also: man 2 fork.

f0rked.