wtf.tw is maintained by six silberman.

six silberman is a first-year PhD student in the Informatics department in the Irvine Company Institute for Digital Panopticism at the University of California, Irvine. He is associated with the Social Code Group and Associate Professor Bill Tomlinson.

He is involved in a study of the relationship between "information technology" and "sustainability". Texts occasionally related to this topic are posted here.

He works with Lilly Irani to maintain Turkopticon, a software service for users of Amazon Mechanical Turk. We have on occasion talked about this in public.

He has written an M.S. thesis on critical mathematical modelling for the Arts Computation Engineering program, under the guidance of Beatriz da Costa, Robert Nideffer, Bill Tomlinson, and Kavita Philip.

He has a B.S. in applied mathematics from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University in the City of New York.

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