I am retired. I worked for 35 years as a senior software developer at Northwestern University.

Email address: j-norstad@northwestern.edu

My Facebook profile.

My autobiography.

Some amateur papers on Finance, one of my hobbies.

Photographs of my trip to Paris in July, 2006.

Some political articles:

• A Progressive Manifesto. Arguments for a more progressive tax code.
• Thoughts on Social Security and the National Debt, and on the role played by the Social Security trust fund in particular.

Some articles that are about me or mention me:

• John Norstad - Macintosh Software Guru. Peter Gorner, Chicago Tribune, July 20, 1997.
• My First Flame. John Seabrook, The New Yorker, June 6, 1994.
• The Einsteins of Wall Street. Jeremy Bernstein, Commentary magazine, September, 2004.

Some old work-related items which may be of interest (or not :-):

• Retirement Speech.
• A MapReduce Algorithm for Matrix Multiplication.
• The WordHoard project.
• The AyeWare project.
• Disinfectant Retirement Announcement.
• Desktop Mail in the University Environment (an ancient but somewhat prescient paper from 1991).