About Me
Hey! I'm Matt Jones, a junior Computer Science major at Stanford. Academically I'm interested in web application security and development, efficient project management, and elegant user design. Otherwise, I enjoy cycling, sailing, and hiking. I'm currently employed as a CS106A section leader and as a software developer at the Stanford Center for Professional Development, where we put some of Stanford's classes online.

For more info, you can read my resume or my LinkedIn profile.

Projects
I've worked on a number of projects for fun, class, or work. Here's some info about a few of them:
Photography for fun and for class. I'm taking intro to photo and have been having a lot of fun shooting and developing on black and white film using my dad's old Canon T90 ("The Tank"). However, shooting film is O(n) time and cost for the number of pictures you take. In search of a more cost-effective strategy, I bought a digital SLR, which is O(1) cost but still O(n) time (though with a much lower constant). Check out my flickr photos!
Tournaments Facebook App (2007): A facebook application written from scratch in php for Stanford's CS377W class with Blake Cutler and Brent Pirruccello. I did most of the database, object-relational mapping, utility, security, and otherwise backend code, along with a few UI elements. The application lets users set up, administer, and participate in Tournaments for any sport.
  • Written from scratch in php
  • Totally object-oriented design
  • Link tracking for metrics and UI analysis to augment Google Analytics
  • Filesystem caching of objects for performance
  • Form IDs on all actions for eliminating double posts and mitigating XSS attacks
  • Access-controlled invitations
  • AJAX for wall posts and other actions
Framework for Social Web Applications (pdf) (2007): A paper I wrote alone, also for CS377W, discussing what makes a high-quality social application that benefits all parties involved.
Intel Paper Semifinalist (pdf) (2004): I did research on the behavior of bronze powder when vertically vibrated at relatively high frequencies, including the appearance of and cause for certain patterns. The resulting paper was a Semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search. More info, including my friends' projects, at my Intel page.
Intel Papers
The following are some papers written by friends of mine in the Chem-Phys program at Evanston Township High School and submitted to Intel STS / Siemens-Westinghouse / other outlets for high schoolers doing original research. If you're interested in the program, reading more papers, or maybe doing one yourself, check out Mark Vondracek's high school research website at ETHS.

If you want me to put yours up here, just shoot me an e-mail, mkjones at stanford dot edu.

Intel Papers

Some of the same students that do research through the Chem/Phys program at ETHS also made a sick video about the program, presumably for a senior project. Check it out.