Dan Rabin

I am a software developer and computer scientist living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.

At work:

I currently work at Google in Mountain View, California. This Web site is not a Google communication: opinions expressed are my own.

I worked on Acrobat 4.0 through 7.0 at Adobe Systems, where I was hired to help design and implement PDF's logical structure feature; I then moved on to integrate extensible metadata into the language [Details].

Other places I have worked include Apple Computer and Xerox PARC.

You can contact me for a complete résumé, but I am not currently (July, 2007) looking for work.

An arcade at Stanford University, standing in for universities in general

At school:

I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University. My Ph.D. thesis (PDF, about 800K) contributes to the theory of programming languages that are simultaneously functional and imperative.

My B.A. in Physics is from Harvard University.

Read me:

I write on technical subjects at my other site, Applied Rotation.

Write me:

The ingredients are "homepage" and "danrabin" and "com" in that order; put an at-sign between the first two, and a dot between the last two.

For friends and family:

I put some photographs and stuff on these pages requiring a password.

Other facts about me:

I bicycle to work.

I have driven across the United States four times.

I have read The Lord of the Rings out loud three times.

I have never owned a toaster.

I am not related to the late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

I am not related to the distinguished computer scientist Michael O. Rabin.

I am related to the distinguished economist Matthew Rabin.

I am not the Dan Rabin who writes about beer.

I'm pretty sure that Dan Rabin Plaza in Hammond, Indiana was not named after me.

I pronounce my last name (IPA) /ˈɹeɪbɪn/, MP3.