Kevin Cole

I was a research applications programmer / systems administrator for the Gallaudet Research Institute at Gallaudet University. Among other projects, I was involved in the development of experiments to study self-perception of loudness while speaking -- how loud an individual believes they are speaking vs. a physical measurement of SPL, a "minimum delay tolerance" study which determined the point at which subjects became aware of a delay in their own speech production, and "Sound Advice": a primitive "virtual aural environment" to guide new assistive listening device users to rehabilitate to the device.

However, now, I spend time losing money in the pursuit of musical fantasies of stardom.

I am still a user, advocate, evangelist, zealot and tutor for Free / Libre Open Source Software / Hardware / Technology (FLOSS / FLOSH / FLOST) and open data, though I am slowing down a bit.

Before discovering computers in high school, I thought I would become a neuroscientist of some sort. I also discovered that there were others like me. It took years to determine that we were collectively what is now referred to as "neurodivergent".