{ about me,

Your typical sillicon valley geek, currently living in ZhongGuanCun, Beijing, often referred to as "China's Sillicon Valley". I'm amidst a 3 month stint at Microsoft Research doing low level networking related work.

I really live for my "nights and weekends", developing and dreaming up useful software for myself and others. Recently this has primarily focused on Chinese-language related tools on my iphone. Unfortunately where Microsoft has situated me does not have internet access (how inconsiderate!). This has seriously impeded my creativity.

When I'm not bumming around in China I'm a bachelors student in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. I also do some work for a pretty kick-ass startup called SwayLaw that is reinventing how the legal sector uses web technologies.

things recently on my mind,

erlang - is gaining traction with Amazon Web Services heavily built off of it, as well as the new facebook chat. plus functional programming is so convenient

opencv - computer vision with python bindings! get this running on an iphone/other open cell platform and we have a winner

sms - in the USofA bridging SMS to e-mail is a piece of cake. Now how do we do the same thing with Chinese carriers? (for free)

contact info and everything else }

skype: newhouseb

msn: newhouseb gmail dot com

gchat: newhouseb gmail dot com

email: what d'ya think ;)

Note: if you got here via some other URL besides bennewhouse.com, that's because whatever you were trying to access used to be on my server in my dorm room... which is clearly no longer plugged in. For now everything is hosted on an Amazon EC2 Instance, and I'm slowly putting everything back up. My apologies!