Thane Plambeck tplambeck@gmail.com 2341 Tasso St Palo Alto, California 94301-4140 650 321 4884 (office) 650 323 4928 (fax) http://www.plambeck.org [photo: Owen Plambeck (age 6)]

EDUCATION Stanford University, Computer Science, PhD 1990 (Jeff Ullman) University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Mathematics, BA 1985 UPCOMING, RECENT, OLD HAT [Mar 2008] Eighth Gathering for Gardner [Jan 2008] BIRS conference on Combinatorial Game Theory [Aug 2007] counterwave, inc (stealth mode) [Sep 2006] Misere quotients for impartial games (with Aaron Siegel) [Aug 2006] Games at DAL 4 / agenda [Jun 2006] The Misere Mex Mystery (Canadian Mathematical Society Summer Meeting), Calgary [Not really me—Aaron Siegel did the work] [Apr 2006] The Model: How to quit your software job and become a millionaire instead. University of San Francisco. [video / slides] [Mar 2006] Game Theory and the Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre [txt] [Mar 2006] Advances in losing [Dec 2005] Timan, LLC [Jan 2005] Bonsai Development Corporation, technology advisor and investor [Dec 2004] Taming the wild in impartial combinatorial games [Mar 2004] Pretending in misere combinatorial games, Experimental Math Workshop, Oakland, CA [Mar 2004] Satterfield's tomb, Gathering for Gardner (G4G6), Atlanta, GA [2003] A pedestrian learns physics (some incomplete General Relativity notes) [2002] Klarner project [2001] The Vern and Marlene Plambeck endowment for the fine arts ANCIENT HISTORY [2000-2001] Principal Scientist, CTO Organization, VeriSign [1999-2000] Chief Architect, Signio [acquired by VeriSign] [1997-1999] President & CEO, Structured Arts Computing Corporation [acquired by Signio] [1996-1997] Chief Operating Officer, Numerical Technologies [acquired by Synopsys] [1996-1997] Independent Consultant, C*ATS Software [1995-1996] VP Engineering, International Risk Control [acquired by C*ATS Software] [Summer 1995] IDA-CCR (Princeton, NJ) [1991-1995] President & Co-founder, Postmodern Computing Technologies [acquired by Visigenic] [Summer 1991] IDA-CCR (Princeton, NJ) [1990-1991] Senior Software Engineer, Teknekron Software Systems [now TIBCO] LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR! [1985] Phi Beta Kappa [1983] World champion team, ACM International computer programming contest [1977] State tennis champion team, Kearney High School (Nebraska) [1974] Nebraska elementary school scholastic chess champion PERSONAL Grew up in Kearney, Nebraska Married. Two children.