Greg's Life Story

This is mainly here in case you have stumbled across my web page and are wondering if this is the Greg Ward you knew in high school, lived across the street from, dated (unlikely), were once in a vicious street fight with (very unlikely), or had a wild, drunken, one-night-stand with (extremely unlikely). (If you match more than one of these, I want to hear from you!)

So here are the bare facts:

• 19 May 1972: born at St. Mary's Hospital in Montreal, Quebec
• 1973--1983: lived in North York and Toronto, Ontario
  • 1973--74(?): lived somewhere in North York
  • 1974--80(?): lived on Briar Hill Avenue in Toronto
  • 1976--79: attended nearby Allenby Public School for junior and senior kindergarten and Grade 2 (skipped Grade 1)
  • 1979--83: attended the Prep School at Upper Canada College, a snooty private school in the Forest Hill neighbourhood of Toronto.
  • 1980--83: lived on Lord Seaton Drive in North York
• 1983--85: lived in Omaha, Nebraska; attended Millard Central Junior High School, a typical suburban middle-class middle-American public school (that's not a compliment)
• 1985--91: lived in Des Moines, Iowa (actually the suburbs of Urbandale and West Des Moines)
• 1985--89: attended Dowling High School in West Des Moines, a typical suburban middle-class middle-American parochial school (again, that's not a compliment: there's a reason they call 'em "parochial" schools, you know)
• 1986--89: active in the Des Moines BBS community; I dimly recall names of some of the BBSes: Colorama, the 65c02 Zoo, TARDIS, Buffalo Creek, ... and lots of others whose names escape me
• 1989--91: went to college (as the Americans say) at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a small, second-tier engineering school in lovely Terre Haute, Indiana (affectionately known as Terrible Hole). Terre Haute sits uneasily in the territory between the Rust Belt and the Bible Belt, and shares the many charms of both. The only good things about Rose-Hulman are the high quality of teaching and the student-run radio station, WMHD, where I spent many a happy hour on air broadcasting whatever the hell I liked at 150 watts to a listership that may have occasionally gone into the double digits.
• 1991--98: lived in Montreal, studying, working, and having fun at McGill University
  • 1991--94: did a B.Sc. in physics with a minor in computer science
  • 1991-92: lived on Summerhill Ave (just off Côte-des-Neiges)
  • 1992-93: lived on l'Esplanade Ave (between Rachel and Marie-Anne)
  • 1993 (summer): lived on Ste-Famille St (corner of Prince Arthur)
  • 1993-94: lived on Dorchester Ave in Westmount (corner of Greene)
  • 1993, 94 (both summers): worked at the Montreal Neurological Institute
  • 1994-98: did an M.Sc. (half-time) in computer science
  • 1994-98: worked (full-time) at the Montreal Neurological Institute
  • 1994-95: lived on Stanley St. (between Sherbrooke and Dr. Penfield)
  • 1995-97: lived on St-Dominique St. (between Roy and Napoléon)
  • 1997-98: lived on Lavoie St. (just below Côte-Ste-Catherine)
  • 1998: lived on Durocher St. in Outremont (just below Van Horne)
• 1998--2000: living in Arlington, Virginia and working for the MEMS Exchange at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives in Reston, Virginia
• 2001--??: back in Montreal, still working for the MEMS Exchange as a full-time consultant