About

Andrew Grumet is an MIT graduate (PhD ’99), technology leader, husband, avid cook and father of two beautiful children.

My professional life is pretty well summarized on LinkedIn.

Here are some other things I’ve worked on:

• Software Engineering for Internet Applications – Computer science textbook, available online and from MIT Press.
• Juice – Podcast client.
• Gigadial – Podcast remixer.
• Program My Tivo! – Demonstration app allowing the public to push a limited number of recordings onto my Tivo. No longer active. Recommendation history page here.
• 9-11 Commission Report Recommendations – Remedy for poor information design in the 9/11 commission report. More here.
• ElsaDorfman.Com – Created the map graphic on the front page.
• SimilarFeeds – Collaborative filtering app for blog feeds.

Open Source projects I’ve contributed to:

• OpenACS – toolkit for building social sites. 2 terms as board member in 2004.
• WordPress – blog platform.
• Thrift – RPC system.

Just for fun, a few google searches I score well on (first or second result; last checked September 2012):

• 9/11 recommendations
• find the feed
• http head example

aegrumet@alum.mit.edu