| BIOGRAPHY |
I was
born in Cologne, Germany
in Spring of 1973. I
don't remember anything about that day, but you can ask my mom. I stayed in Cologne for sixteen years. At
age eleven I decided that, one day, I will go to university to earn a doctorate
degree. Although I might not have known what that meant at that age, the plan
would serve me well for the remainder of the century.
In 1989, I moved to Bloomington, Indiana (USA) to live with my father. I went to Bloomington High School North as a junior and a year later started attending my first college courses at Indiana University. Although computers had always been my spare-time-consuming hobby, attending university opened up a fascinating new world of knowledge that I could not resist. For many of my computer science courses I had already read the textbook before classes started. My ultimate goal was to finish a course without loosing even one graded point. I never reached that goal, but in hindsight, it was really the path and not the goal that was most valuable. I graduated with a Bachelors of Science with Honors and Distinction in 1994.
1994 was my last year under parental supervision. In late Summer, I drove to Seattle, Washington and began the single life as a graduate student at the University of Washington. There I received a Masters Degree in Computer Science in 1996. Earlier that year Markus and I founded a company we called Libreria Don Quijote. Together we wanted to tap the market of Spanish speaking people on the internet by opening an online bookstore of Spanish literature. We put up a web page with a database containing most of the published books in Mexico. Books could be ordered online by credit card from our web page. We worked on this idea for two years, but it never took off and finally we retired from this job lacking the time and money to continue.
In the Fall of 1996, I participated in a scuba diving class where I met my wife Hsin-yi (Katy). We got married on October 25th, 1997 (our wedding pictures). On the 20th of May 2002, Yohan Stefan Berg, our first baby was born.
My initial research focus was in computer architecture and memory interfaces. I worked as a research assistant with the RaPiD group until April 1998. My interest focused towards cache prefetching for mediaprocessors. I began working as a research assistant with the Image Computing Systems Laboratory (ICSL) in 1998 and graduated with a Ph.D. in June 2002.
In December 2002, I joined 2015, Inc to work on an unannounced PS2/Xbox project. I switched to the Men of Valor project in Spring 2003 as the primary network programmer responsible for Xbox Live play, System Link play, and cooperative and multiplayer modes of game play. I also created the initial framework for our menu system, have done work on the animation system, and of course supported the team in other areas whenever possible. That Summer my wife also began work as a Programmer on Men of Valor. We completed Men of Valor in the Fall of 2004 and it began shipping to stores in October 2004.
I moved to Santa Clara, California in September 2004 to work as an architecture engineer on GeForce 8 at NVIDIA. On the 26th of November 2004. Jens Philip Berg, our second baby was born.
Last Updated: August 06, 2007