Overview
Philip Kovac is a computer science student who is a strong proponent of open source software, reason, and social technocracy. He lives in Dracut, MA, and has resided in Massachusetts his entire life.
Professional
Philip Kovac is a computer science MS student at UMass Lowell under Professor Georges Grinstein and the Institute for Visualization & Perception Research. He received his BS in Computer Science from UMass Lowell in Spring of 2011, and plans to continue his graduate-level education to a PhD.
During the majority of his undergraduate career, Philip worked as a laboratory technician under Professor Holly Yanco of the UMass Lowell Robotics Lab, primarily working on backend software managing communications between a robot and its teleoperations interface, as well as updating legacy code to function cleanly on modern Linux systems. He also was briefly involved in design of backend software for the Bettrbox project of Good Ventures LLC.
Personal
In his free time, Philip likes to play tabletop roleplaying games and video games, read books on psychology, sociology, economics, policy, and anything else non-fiction that strikes his fancy, with some light interest in fantasy and sci-fi novels. He currently shares an apartment in Nashua, NH with his partner Martin Grondin, and his two cats, Worf and Wesley. He also maintains a handful of gameservers for the gaming community The Fungineers.