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I am a Professor at the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. I teach courses on the physiology and function of the visual system, as well as the optics of the eye. My research throughout the years has been on visual attention, spatial vision, electrophysiology of vision, visual development and strabismus/amblyopia. I've written a couple of dozen research papers and two textbooks, one on binocular vision and the other on Prograph (there is a book entitled "You know you're going bald when..." listed on Barnes and Nobles' web site, but it's by another Scott Steinman who even shares my middle initial!!). I am mostly a self-taught programmer, having started with BASIC and assembly on the Commodore VIC-20 and C-64, then moving on to FORTRAN on the DEC PDP-11/73 and C/C++ and assembly on the Amiga 1000. My doctoral thesis research at the University of Houston on hyperacuity was done with interconnected VIC-20, C-64 and PDP-11 computers, while my early research in visual attention was done with the Amiga (see Amazing Computing article on accelerated pixel drawing on the Amiga). My post-doctoral research project at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute required C programming on DOS. Finally, I got to use a Mac!! I learned C++ on the Mac, then Prograph. My wife and I wrote the software for her doctoral studies and our later joint research on visual attention at the University of Missouri with Prograph, and I taught a graduate programming course on Prograph that led to the Prograph book I wrote with Kevin Carver. I also designed and programmed an infant vision clinic at the Washington University Medical School using two interconnected Macs using LabVIEW, Frontier and C++ (see MacTech articles). I'm currently programming patient simulation software in Java and learning Objective-C and Cocoa. My hobbies are art and cartooning, electronic music and playing the recorder and shakuhachi, crosswords and reading. Oh, yes, I also program for fun. I have a lovely wife, Barbara, who has a wonderful sense of humor and a razor-sharp wit, and two lovely but huge (15 pounds at 1 year) Ragdoll kittens.
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