Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:07:39 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:40:38 GMT Content-length: 2966 Secret Life of Yas Saito

Secret Life of Yasushi Saito

I was in Japan before coming to Seattle. I was born in a small village in Shikoku island. I lived in Kyoto, Dallas(TX), Osaka, and Tokyo then. I graduated Department of Information Science at University of Tokyo (BS '90, MS '92). My mentor was Ken Sakamura. In BS study, I remember having mucked around a prototype computer called BTRON1 and written a GUI language that vaguely resembled sTk. And believe me, I did MS study in theory field(about developing a formal specification of an embedded OS and verifying an implementation I wrote).

I had been working from '92 to '94 at Access Ltd, a small software company in Tokyo that was even not Internet-reachable(and still not now). I tried to create a NFS server on PC from scratch, but I quit the company just before it completed. Also, I was in charge of overall LAN management. This was where I gained lots of UNIX experience. Between '94 and '95, I was kind of jobless. I some times worked as a parttime programmer at some companies and universities.

Besides hacking, I swim(but not recently), scuba dive, run, bicycle and ski. I'm also a travelling addict. I visited Thai this spring but this caused among some people a suspicion that I don't understand :). I traveled across central American countries from Guatemala to Costa Rica this Summer('96).

Here are my mail aliases that are somewhat obsolete but valid:

FAQ:
  1. What does "Yasushi" mean?
    Contrary to what many people believe, my name has nothing to do with Sushi. Yasushi writes "Ì÷" in Japanese letter(If you are in Netscape, choose Options/Document Encoding/Japanese (Auto-Detect) to see the the stuff inside "") It seems to mean "stability" according to my parents. My father is Muneyasu, and he gave the latter part of his name to me.

    You are free to call me Yas if yasushi is too long.

  2. What does "Saito" mean?
    This I don't know really. In kanji, "Saito" consists of two letters "sai"(ºØ) and "to"(Æ£). "To" is the same letter as the first letter of "Fujiwara"(Æ£¸¶) family, a famous aristocrat in medieval Japan. And "sai" usually means "funeral" or something. So my guess is that "Saito" family branched from Fujiwara family and specialized in rituals.