Welcome to the web site of

Gary Sockut



I am a software engineer, with experience in both research and product development, now working at MIT Lincoln Laboratory; see my areas of interest later in this site for more details.  This is both my professional web site and my personal web site.





Similarly, my web site alias (http://alum.mit.edu/www/ghs) should be valid for the rest of my life.  It will always be forwarded to the real URL of my web site, which is where you are now looking.

SITE MAP: 

1 TOPICS DEALING WITH MY CAREER
   1.1 AREAS OF INTEREST
   1.2 EDUCATION
   1.3 PUBLICATIONS
   1.4 PATENTS
   1.5 AWARDS, HONORARY SOCIETIES, AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2 TOPICS DEALING MORE GENERALLY WITH CAREERS
   2.1 CONSIDERATIONS FOR JOB-HUNTING
            NETWORKING
            MISCELLANEOUS TECHNIQUES FOR JOB-HUNTING
   2.2 CONSIDERATIONS FOR WORK, INCLUDING GRADUATE SCHOOL
            RESEARCH OR DESIGN
            BEING OPEN-MINDED
            WORKING WITH OTHER PEOPLE
   2.3 TOPICS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 
            SEARCHING THE RESEARCH LITERATURE
            THE JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

3 TOPICS DEALING WITH LEISURE
   3.1 CHARADES
            SIGNALS
            CONSIDERATIONS FOR HOSTING CHARADES
   3.2 MENSA
   3.3 ENCORE AND MISCELLANEOUS GAMES
   3.4 HIKING
   3.5 MUSIC AND ART

4 MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS
   4.1 RECIPES
   4.2 A FEW USEFUL SITES ON THE WEB
            GENERAL INTEREST
            CHECKING A COMPANY
            THE LATEX TEXT-FORMATTING LANGUAGE
            MISCELLANEOUS COMPUTER TOPICS
            OTHER TOPICS


Forward to Section 1. Topics Dealing with my Career.