User:Albert Gordon Smith

In 1976 I received a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 1984 I received a Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University. My dissertation research was supervised by Professors Clifford Will and Robert Wagoner.

From 1984 to 1987 I was a postdoctoral researcher at Tufts University's Institute of Cosmology, working with Professor Alexander Vilenkin on the theory of cosmic strings.

My physics papers are listed on my Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F20OEcAAAAAJ

From 1987 to 1991 I transitioned from physics to software engineering.

From 1991 to 2014 I worked at Macromedia and Adobe Systems. I was one of the founding engineers for Macromedia Flex (later Adobe Flex, currently the open-source project Apache Flex), an expressive application framework for richly interactive internet applications running on the Flash Player. At the time we developed Flex, internet interactivity was primitive and required complete page refreshes every time any element of the page changed. The advanced interactive capabilities of Flash and Flex helped catalyze the development of similar features in HTML 5.

In 2014 I retired from Adobe as a Senior Software Engineer.