User:Matt Britt

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If you can't see the number 42 in this image, you see what I see and are mildly upset by it.

Matt Britt (a.k.a mattb and in a former life uberpenguin) is a simple Internet denizen. He is an electrical engineering undergraduate (specializing in analog electronics, microelectronics, and power systems) at Georgia Tech, though he has often informed others that he would have probably been better off as a history or English literature major. Nevertheless, he is involved in semiconductor device research with wide bandgap materials like gallium nitride in S.-C. Shen's group. Matt is a quasi-developer/loiterer on the aMule project and maintains several small to medium sized personal coding projects of his own. He considers himself an "operating system enthusiast", whatever that means. His favorite OSes running are OS/400, QNX, Free/OpenBSD, ITRON, and Plan 9. Matt laments that MTRON was never properly implemented, as TRON was a design so far ahead of its time that nobody seems to remember it now. Matt further laments that nearly nobody else laments with him. He thoroughly believes that Wikipedia is one of the most interesting ideas since the proverbial sliced bread, though he maintains a constant love/hate relationship with it. His edits on Wikipedia are mostly concerned with computer architecture, semiconductor devices, and other random miscellany. The keen observer might spot him poking his head into articles regarding his interests from another life, the aforementioned history and literature.

He is usually haunted by a Krokodil.

Matt wholeheartedly objects to over-fancified user pages containing approximately 1.2 bajillion templates. Wikipedia is not MySpace. Userboxes are stupid, but blood feuds over deleting them are stupider.

Matt believes that you should not simply "do whatever". He also feels that Wikipedia should not be a reference to fictional worlds, but knows that changing the status quo is practically impossible.

Matt likes to refer to himself in the third person.

Matt may be contacted via email if you'd like to ask a question. He can also be talked to with the OSCAR/TOC as the screen name IrenicPenguin.

1 Significant contributions
- 1.1 Images
2 To do
3 Recognition

[edit] Significant contributions

Oakland Cemetery - wrote article. Photographs taken by AUtiger.
Central processing unit was a blithering mess before Matt rewrote it. It's a bit lengthy, but there is little that can be removed without significantly damaging the article.
Largely rewrote Internet2. The original version was wholly innaccurate after several AP affiliates picked up a story that was very poorly researched.
AMULET microprocessor - wrote stub

[edit] Images

Some images that Matt was involved with:

Aerial map of Oakland Cemetery	Not mine, but cool nonetheless	Shows how the MIPS32 ADDI instruction is decoded	An Intel 80486DX2 die
Same 80486, different magnification. Now being used on a book cover	PN junction energy band diagram at equilibrium	NPN BJT energy band diagram at equilibrium	NPN BJT band diagram in active mode
Karl Süss contact aligner	Map of some of the routes on the Internet in early 2005. Made this and its big BIG brother with data from the OPTE project

[edit] To do

Work on several of the semiconductor related articles. Right now, semiconductor, p-n junction, and bipolar junction transistor.
Get Computer to featured article quality! Please help if you can!
Personal computer should be more than a PC enthusiast's guide.
Computer storage and its twelve or so derivative-stub-articles need to be merged and formed up into something respectable.
Clock signal and clock rate probably need merging, and the former needs some quality content.
Problems with addressing mode need to be addressed (ooff... that was bad)
DRAM needs some work.
Multi-core (computing) really needs some work.
Graphics processing unit really really needs some work.
What I learned from heat sink: heat spreading device application is applicable only to microelectronics!