Educational History
- Ph.D. Candidate, ABD, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, September 1989 to 1994.
- Masters in Computer Science from, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, September 1986 to 1989.
- B.S., Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS),
University of California Berkeley, Honors, December 1985.
Very strong CS and limited EE. Emphasis in computer
architecture, parallel processing, and distributed systems.
Received UC Chancellor's Scholarship.
Employment History
- Managed top level domain ".ai" for Anguilla from 1994 to present. See whois.ai.
- Operated RealEstate.ai website and was a real estate agent. 2013 to 2016.
- Operated Gold.ai which pays cash for gold and also refines gold and makes the gold into pure gold coins. 2010 to present
- Managed PublicData.com.ai Ltd from 1997 to 2007. Internet company
that let users search US criminal records.
- President of
Secure Accounts Ltd
which worked on Internet payment system from 1998 to 2000.
- One of founders of the
Financial Cryptography conference started
in 1997 in Anguilla. I ran it the first 4 years in Anguilla.
- Offshore Information Services which was the first email provider
in Anguilla. Also did hosting and web page creation.
- Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 1986 to 1994.
- Summer SEED, Hewlett-Packard , Systems Technology Division,
Cupertino, CA, Summer 1988 and Summer 1989.
- Technical Summer Hire, Intel Scientific Computers, Beaverton Oregon, Summer 1985.
Testing and evaluation of iPSC (hypercube). Developed a test suite.
- Systems Programmer, Cygnet Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA, Summer 1983.
Wrote 8088 assembly code for an communications product that attached
to an IBM PC.
- Formed and ran my own company, USS ENTERPRISES, Started December 1981.
My product allowed an Atari to use the disks, printer, and keyboard of
a computer running CP/M. I started this
my senior year in High School, and ran it at least part time for
the next 3 years. Infoworld
reviewed my product and awarded
it three marks of excellent out of four categories
("The Critical Connection unites Atari and CP/M", Sept 26 1983).
- Programmer, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA, September 81 to
June 82. I worked every Monday of the school year writing Fortran code
to be used with ground support of space lab.
- Programmer, ZILOG, Cupertino, CA, June 81 to January 1982.
I worked full time during the summer of 1981 and 20 hours a week
during the first semester of my senior year of High School.
Publications
- Vincent Cate, "Alex: A Global Filesystem", Proceedings of the
USENIX Workshop on File Systems, May, 1992.
- Vincent Cate and Thomas Gross, "Combining the Concepts of
Compression and Caching for a Two-Level Filesystem",
Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for
Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Santa Clara, CA,
April 8-11, 1991, ISBN 0-89791-380-9, pages 200-211.
- Vincent Cate, "Two levels of filesystem hierarchy on one disk",
Research Report, Carnegie Mellon University,
Computer Science Dept, CMU-CS-90-129.
Blogs
Wikipedia
Vincent Cate