Oliver Steele is a software entrepreneur living with his wife and two children in Amherst, MA. His interests are in the areas of programming language design, knowledge representation, and information visualization.
Oliver was the Chief Software Architect at Laszlo Systems, Inc., where he lead the design of the OpenLaszlo XML application description language and created Laszlo’s Boston office; the CTO at AlphaMask, Inc. (acquired by OpenWave, Inc.), which created the SharpMotionART (SMART) animation graphics technology and was purchased by OpenWave Systems Inc.; and Chief Ontologist at Method Software, Inc., developing software to create conversational agents. He has worked at Apple Computer, where he was a contributor to Quickdraw GX and a project lead in the Dylan Programming Language project.
Oliver’s wife and her father are also in the computer profession. His fifteen-year-old son created these animations; his ten-year-old daughter wrote this song.
