Bryan Bentz 's WWW Home Page at MIT

Professional Activities

My company is Bentz Engineering, LLC. We do software engineering with an emphasis on artificial intelligence, good user interface design, database systems, data mining/machine learning, and 3D visualization.

Organizations/Activities:

Stonington Board of Finance (member)
Quiambaug Fire Department (active volunteer fireman)
Justice of the Peace (CT)
Banshee sailboat National Class President
MIT Educational Councilor (interviewing prospective MIT students)
Collie Rescue League of New England (member/former director)
Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution (former Senior Vice President, Samuel Huntington branch)

Interests:

Archaeology & Ancient History (Greek/Roman)

Sailing

Artificial Consciousness

Algonquian languages (particularly Mohegan and Pequot)

Public education reform

Naval & maritime history, from ancient to modern, including shipwrecks, mysteries of the sea, and underwater archaeology.

Migraine research

Cooking (I maintain a personal collection of recipes which I often give to friends. You can grab it as a Microsoft Word document, zipped).

Travel (Photo of me in front of the Buddha at Kamakura, Japan [JPEG, 47k] with information about the statue, area history, Kamakura Buddhism, etc. )

Genealogy: Bentz; also: Blew, Bushy, Cassidy, Davis, Dionne, Ely, Gentzler, Groff, Hall, Hersche, Hershey, Knickerbocker, Lau, Law, O'Hara, Shetter, Siebrecht, Strayer, Swain, Swope, Ticknor, Turk - and quite a few others.

My Pages On This Site
Ideas	Some ideas and musings for your consideration and amusement.
Rants	I've put together some comments on various things which annoy me which I can't particularly change... some of this might be amusing.
Humor	Over the years I've received many jokes, etc., usually of the over circulated Internet type. In order to make them accessible to friends, I've tossed them in a barely organized form here. Enjoy them at your own risk.
BZFlag	I enjoy playing the open-source, cross-platform game BZFlag (usually under the name "The Purple Panzer". This is a page with background information, maps, etc.
Banshee sailboat	The Banshee Class National Association web page.
Bentz genealogy	Pages relating to the Bentz family.
Resources	The page I use as my starting page, with many links broken out by section (and a Table of Contents at the top).

Pages Elsewhere You Might Like
Research tools	Useful research tools - a nice page for fast dictionary, encyclopedia, or other common lookups.
General web resources of quality	My reference page.
WIRED article on MIT hacking	An article in which I make a brief appearance with my name misspelled. (For further information on my involvement with MIT hacking many years ago, see also the octagon description, or the T.H.A. writeup.)
Gallery of MIT hacks	The M. I. T. Museum's hacking pages.
Resources	Lots of useful links by category.

Contact Information

If you need to FTP me something, it can go in my Public FTP Directory, but you should let me know first so that I can turn off write protection. I don't want to leave it open for possible use as temporary storage by God knows whom.

I've dropped the "mailto:" tags because of the volume of spam that results from people scraping them from web pages. However, my email addresses are:

Last update: 05/20/04.