Andy Szybalski
I'm a user experience designer based in Silicon Valley. I recently earned my MS in Computer Science at Stanford University. My experience includes internships at Apple Computer and Firaxis Games, where I worked on Civilization IV.Recent Projects
- The Mooches is a webcomic I write with Max Doty. It chronicles the adventures of an oddly-shaped fellow named Sandbag and his three freewheeling housemates. We haven't updated it in a while but you can check out the archive.
- Arborius is a little experiment in Flash programming and tree-pruning (warning: this may crash your browser)
Reading List
- Achewood, a great daily webcomic
- SF Cityscape, a blog about Bay Area development and transportation issues
- Snark Hunting, a blog about naming and branding
- Orisinal, beautiful and fun Flash games
A Painting
- Listerine (oil on canvas, 24 × 24 in., 2002)
Some Photos
- My photos on flickr
- Eagle Park at Night (digital, 2006)
- West Wales (digital, 2005)
- Hearst Castle (digital, 2004)
- Moraga Creek (digital, 2004)
- Staffa, Scotland (35 mm black and white, 2003)
- Freeways (35 mm black and white, 2002)
- Western United States (35 mm color, 2002)
- Friends (35 mm & medium format, 2001–2003)
Web Design Work
Also see some miscellaneous design work.
Software for Mac OS X
- Shellsilver is a little utility for launching shell scripts
- Lunamoth (beta) is a fast-paced 3D arcade game
- Pyper (experimental) is a musical development environment for Python
Papers and Research
- "Why it's not a wiki world (yet)", 2005 (PDF). Suggests technological and social reasons for the slow adoption of wikis, and examines the future course of the technology.
- Clara Shih, Armando Fox, Terry Winograd, Andy Szybalski, Maria Crone. Teamspace: A Simple, Low-Cost and Self-Sufficient Workspace for Small-Group Collaborative Computing. Proceedings of CSCW 2004. (PDF)
- Rafael Ballagas, Andy Szybalski, and Armando Fox. Patch Panel: Enabling Control-Flow Interoperability in Ubicomp Environments. Proceedings of PerCom 2004. (PDF 2.6 MB)
- Balancing Zero-Admin and Incremental Intergration in Ubicomp Environments, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, May 2004 (PDF paper 4.2 MB, or PDF slides 2.5 MB)
- Using Depth from Focus to Create Composite Images with Arbitrary Focus, 2004 (PDF, 8.5 MB) Removed due to space constraints
- TeamSpace is an experimental installation to be deployed in Meyer Library that aims to make this technology available to the general public
Photo at left: 101/280, by Andy Szybalski, 35mm black and white, 2002. Part of the Freeways collection.