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My writings in software engineering, Python, cybersecurity, and algorithmic music composition have been published in journals, conference proceedings, and popular publishing platforms.

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Cybersecurity vendors trusted to protect Linux systems ignore available controls to protect their own services, leaving users exposed to supply chain attacks.

  • CrowdStrike Can Manipulate Your Clock, And Other Ways Cybersecurity Vendors Ignore Least Privilege
    2026

Find the most vulnerably Python package on your system!

  • What Is the Most Dangerous Python Package on Your System?
    2025

All Articles

  • CrowdStrike Can Manipulate Your Clock, And Other Ways Cybersecurity Vendors Ignore Least Privilege
    2026
  • What Is the Most Dangerous Python Package on Your System?
    2025
  • Liberating Performance with Immutable DataFrames in Free-Threaded Python
    2025
  • Do More with NumPy Array Type Hints: Annotate & Validate Shape & Dtype
    2025
  • Guarantee a Locked & Reproducible Environment with Every Python Run
    2025
  • System-Wide Python Package Control: Enforce Allow Lists & Find Vulnerabilities
    2024
  • Improving Code Quality with Array and DataFrame Type Hints
    2024
  • Faster DataFrame Serialization
    2024
  • Type-Hinting DataFrames for Static Analysis and Runtime Validation
    2023
  • Memoizing DataFrame Functions
    2023
  • The Performance Advantage of No-Copy DataFrame Operations
    2022
  • One Fill Value Is Not Enough: Preserving Columnar Types When Reindexing DataFrames
    2022
  • StaticFrame from the Ground Up: Getting Started with Immutable DataFrames
    2022
  • Using Higher-Order Containers to Efficiently Process 7,163 (or More) DataFrames
    2022
  • Ten Reasons to Use StaticFrame instead of Pandas
    2020
  • Boring Indices & Where to Find Them: The Auto-Incremented Integer Index in StaticFrame
    2019
  • Two Pioneering Projects from the Early History of Computer-Aided Algorithmic Composition
    Computer Music Journal 2011
  • The music21 Stream: A New Object Model for Representing, Filtering, and Transforming Symbolic Musical Structures
    Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2011
  • Analytical and Compositional Applications of a Network-Based Scale Model in music21
    Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2011
  • music21: A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology and Symbolic Music Data
    Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference 2010
  • Modeling Beats, Accents, Beams, and Time Signatures Hierarchically with music21 Meter Objects
    Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2010
  • The Interrogator as Critic: The Turing Test and the Evaluation of Generative Music Systems
    Computer Music Journal 2009
  • Sonifying Sieves: Synthesis and Signal Processing Applicatinos of the Xenakis Sieve with Python and Csound
    Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2009
  • Python at the Control Rate: athenaCL Generators as Csound Signals
    Csound Journal 2008
  • Serial RSS Sound Installation as Open Work: The babelcast
    Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2007
  • Automata Bending: Applications of Dynamic Mutation and Dynamic Rules in Modular One-Dimensional Cellular Automata
    Computer Music Journal 2007
  • The Xenakis Sieve as Object: A New Model and a Complete Implementation
    Computer Music Journal 2005
  • Navigating the Landscape of Computer-Aided Algorithmic Composition Systems: A Definition, Seven Descriptors, and a Lexicon of Systems and Research
    Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2005
  • An Open Design for Computer-Aided Algorithmic Music Composition: athenaCL
    Ph.D. Dissertation, New York University 2005
  • Ornament as Data Structure: An Algorithmic Model based on Micro-Rhythms of Csángó Laments and Funeral Music
    Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2003
  • Prokaryotic Groove: Rhythmic Cycles as Real-Value Encoded Genetic Algorithms
    Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference 2002

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