Hello! My name is
Mark Pellegrini. I'm a PhD candidate in and
computer engineering">Electrical and
computer engineering at the University of Delaware, whence I also got my bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. I'm working under Guang Gao in CAPSL, as a small worker bee for the Cyclops64 project - a project to produce (what we hope will be) the world's fastest computer. Our group has been subcontracted by IBM to do hardware verification testing and system software development. My current research project is
rewriting the NASConjugate gradient benchmark to run efficiently on Cyclops64.
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My current Wikistress level. I'm the one who invented this little meme, which seems to have
spread to almost every other major project
I've been on Wikipedia a long time (since August 2003). I'm an administrator, a bureaucrat, and
an arbitrator. I'm the "Featured Article Director", meaning that I schedule the featured articles that you see on the main page every day (as well as promoting featured articles and
in general helping to making the whole process go smoothly.) I'm also on the Wikimedia Foundation's Communications committee, and
I'm a member of the ' Wikimedia Press Team' (meaning I help answer the many emails Wikipedia gets).
I've written a lot of articles - over 400, at last count. I've also taken a fair number of pictures and
requested a few articles. I'm a generalist, in that I contribute all over wikipedia. I've written articles in many different fields, including featured articles in history, science, and
literature. I think, at one point or
another, I've done every task there is
to do on Wikipedia, from fixing double redirects and
cut-and-paste page moves to presenting a case before the arbcom and
writing custom software for Wikipedia (an upload bot).
After you've been here a while, you start to notice certain trends. I've started writing them down at Raul's laws of Wikipedia, which also includes a few discovered by others.
--The Arabian Nights, (translation by Husain Haddawy)
Hell, you haven't even mentioned Wikipedia's bias against alternative timelines! Can you imagine: as important a topic as, say, United States under Adolf Hitler, and
we still don't have
an article! zafiroblue05 | Talk 02:03, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Must...resist...temptation... --Kinst 02:27, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar for Raul654 on the occasion of our 1000th Featured Article. Truly tireless work! Marskell 16:12, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
For being there and
helping me when I really needed it. Keep up the good work! Guinnog 12:48, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
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