Sam Kenyon
I’m a freelance software engineer living in Los Angeles, primarily using C++ and Qt.
I also created a movie company based in LA: Imaginary Danger Productions.
I’ve been employed by Lionsgate, The Qt Company, iRobot, Bio-Rad, BasisTech, Boston University and others developing robotics and user interface software (and other stuff).
I was educated in Boston where I went to Northeastern University, spending many a night in a dirty robotics lab in a basement. I had transferred into Northeastern after graduating from a 2-year school in New Hampshire.
During college I interned at DEKA, MIT Lincoln Lab and Charles River Analytics.
Soon after getting my bachelor’s from Northeastern, I joined an MIT robotics competition team called ORCA simply by being at the right time and place in yet another dirty basement laboratory.
As I convinced nearby iRobot Corporation into hiring me—by constantly showing up against their will—I also took three graduate courses at MIT by exploiting loopholes in their system (not by actually being smart enough to get into MIT). My MIT professors were Marvin Minsky, Whitman Richards and Henry Lieberman.
What is MetaDevo?
Presently, this website just hosts my blog.
I discuss software engineering, AI, Strong AI, 4E (Embodied, Ecological/Embedded, Extended and Enactive) cognition, cognitive architectures, interfaces, robots, cyborgs and philosophy of mind. And whatever else I feel like.
In the Miscellaneous posts, I list links to interesting things I’ve read lately.
Code
I’ve deleted my old github accounts but I’m growing a new one here:
I also store food recipes in Github: https://github.com/samrecipes/recipes
Publications
ResearchGate
Academia.edu
Google Scholar
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Contact
Email: sam@metadevo.com
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If you want to alleviate a quantum of guilt you have for all your contributions to the wrongs of the world—or encourage my tomfoolery—you can send me money or click on a referral link of a product I may or may not use myself: Donation page.