Lin Hsin Hsin BIODATA - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIST

BIODATA - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIST

Simply, I grew up with numbers, bits and bytes with music, paints and brushes side-by-side!

Because of my love for numbers (cheap toy), I tried remembering p = 3.14159265358979... in my school days, disturbing my memory cells. Anyway, I studied mathematics with NumberTheory as my favorite subject and solving partial differential equations as the next. Spent much time solving mathematical puzzles and looking for prime numbers as my numerical pastime.

Then came my Computer Science days where I indulged in programming languages from Assembler to the now XML, lots of MLs...as much as in natural languages with reading etymology dictionaries as my favorite pastime. My curosity led me to the much inspired and desired "deadlocks in operating systems".

After a period of exploration or rather "late nights and greeting good mornings with virtual machines and networks", I surfaced out to the real world: building application systems from fleet acquisition modeling to monitoring aircraft engines in the aero industry to forcasting Aids virus in biotechnology; from banking and investments in the financial world to managing books in the library... Hence my intimate relationships with hierachical, network and relational databases.

After the PC was born, I literally parked myself in Lotus 1-2-3 with writing macros (some thousands to date) as another form of English. It's almosttherapeutic! I guess I just like any form of macro language (I can't namethem all here). Why? just like poems and equations, macros are short and sweet.

What do I do in between? Catch up with Artificial Intelligencethough LISP is not my favorite, can always use Prolog. For that matter,if you have had strong foundation in programming languages, any stringlanguage is easy enough to handle. I also had a short (relative) stint with queuing theory. How fun! Isn't life a queue, you born to queueto...

At one stage, I returned to the academic world thought that I could share my knowledge and pursue some research at the same time, however, being a very "hands-on" person, I went back to the real world -- developing software -- and hence gaining more knowledge!

What do I do now? Always, I have been faced with the "epitesmological (left brain & right brain)" question. So, I'm straddling across disciplines in the multimedia world -- intermedia, something that embraces my true love since i was a kid. But, with emerging technologies changing by the minute and my burning desire sand curosities, I used to peel operating systems like onions. Handmade and repair files -- a total indulgence that wasted a lot of my time! I got out of this bad habit and built the first public wireless network for my museum in Singapore during my 15th solo exhibition in 1997. In 1999, I built a wireless home in Paris, France, and I began developing software for WAP and mobile phone applications since then. Hmmmm... intersting, right? Indeed, I started with applications, then mug around with the phone browsers (still do), then recess into the backend, watch traffic, surface out to develop contents, improve on compression techniques, the list go on...

My all time hot favorites: Internet security and encryption. In the mid 90s, I believe in introducing live to the Web by writing Java applets, and Shockwave movies.. but since, I have progressed to developing interactivities in the browser for the pc and mobile phones; writing pure codes to create art and music, a more elegant way to creation -- hence I consider discarding commercially available popular software is the best thing I have ever done! Whatever the case maybe, I am against point and click, drag and drop, cut and paste, scan and morph, tween and grin!! Don't forget my verbatim self, I overflow them "in words" in between writing codes... see the results in our online store.