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David Martin Jr. Last modified July 2, 1995

... David Martin Jr. (right) and Steve Godfrey in June, 1995, in the Arboretum near Minneapolis.


Background

Dave was born in Ames on Columbus Day (look it up!) 1965 in Ames, Iowa, to parents Dave Sr. and Anne, and brother Hogan.

Dave was reared in Ames, and immediately after high school, moved to Berkeley CA with his then-boyfriend David Johnson, where they both lived until late 1986. Dave M. enrolled at Iowa State University (ISU) in 1987 and graduated in May of 1993 with a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics and a minor in German. In addition, he spent the 1988-1989 academic year near Stuttgart (Germany), studying and working for Hewlett Packard GmbH under the auspices of the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Parlimentarisches Patenschaftsprogramm.

In September 1993, the Daves moved to Brookline, MA, and Dave M. enrolled in an MA/PhD program in the small, theory-oriented department of Computer Science at Boston University. Daves M. and J. parted amicably in early 1994.

At Mike Friedman's 30th birthday party in September of 1994, Dave M. met his beloved boyfriend Steve Godfrey. Dave and Steve now temporarily occupy the rectory of St. John the Evangelist (Episcopal), while the ministerial search proceeds.

Science and Technology

Dave is currently studying complexity theory under his advisor Steve Homer at BU. Dave spent the summer of 1994 visiting his other advisor Jack Lutz. Dave has been employed in the ISU Computer Science Department and Computation Center as a researcher, user consultant, and Project Vincent system programmer. His years in California were spent as a programmer, and until recently Dave indeed thought of himself primarily as a programmer.

He now pretends he's a scientist.

Here's a postscript version of The Global Power of Additional Queries to Random Oracles, co-written with Jack Lutz and Ron Book, as presented at the Symposium for Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS '94) in Caen, France.

Queer Stuff

Dave has been gay as long as he can remember, and thanks to the efforts of gay adults in the 60s and 70s---and of course, love and support from his family---he has never been thrown onto the streets, been given shock therapy, or been assaulted by friends. Dave considers his sexuality to be an important but unremarkable part of his character. He's not a queer evangelist, but he does strongly believe that it's pretty hard to hate fags when you know some. Dave therefore begs his gay brothers and lesbian sisters: Come out!

Here's a short blurb on Alan Turing, the Father of Computer Science.


David Martin Jr. (david@iastate.edu, dm@cs.bu.edu)
David Martin
Department of Computer Science
Boston University
111 Cummington St.
Boston, MA   02215
(617) 353-3326 (office)
(617) 723-9371 (home)