I was born in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, the oldest of 5 children. Raised in a Christian home, I am proud to be the product of Christian education. Not only for the Christian background and reinforcement these school systems gave me, but as a private education system, the government tended to impose stricter standards on the schools, resulting in first-rate academic institutions.

I went to Cambridge Christian School for grades 1 through 8, and Woodland Christian High School for 9 through 12, with a brief stint at Southwood Secondary School, a local public high school, for "grade 13".

Following high school, I became a graduate of the University of Guelph, where I received a specialized honours degree from the Computing and Information Science department.

I now live in Hamilton, New Jersey (having moved here for my job in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University) with my wife, Michelle, and four cats: Widget, Smudge, Glitch and iVee. We moved to the U.S. New Year's Day, January of 1999. In the latter part of February 2004, we bought our first house and began dealing with the fun that is home-ownership. Michelle and I have been married for 15 years now, and are quite content with our DINK status.

I enjoy reading, and we have amassed a modest library over the years that I pretend to keep orderly.