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Steve Weyer has taught courses at OLLI since 2010:
CROSSWORDS and YOU (history, solving, practice, authoring)
Constructing Crosswords (themes, grid, fill, clues, publish)
Disaster Preparedness: Almeda, Cascadia, Zombies
P@s$w0rdz (passwords, password managers)
Be Safer on the Internet (security and privacy)
E-books
Internet History and Issues
Steve has 55+ years experience with computer software, including research and development
on programming languages, learning environments, electronic books, and artificial intelligence
at Stanford, Xerox PARC, Atari, HP Labs, Apple and 2 startups.
He has constructed and published crossword puzzles; his debut New York Times crossword appeared on Wed, 11/1/2023.
He developed and distributed "Newt’s Cape" (a Newton web browser),
"CrozzWord" (a Java-based crossword solving application),
and other mobile apps for early handhelds and smartphones.
Steve has a BS in Math (Univ. of Wash.), and an MS in Statistics and PhD in Education (Stanford).
List of Steve's publications, interviews, and crosswords.
After moving to Ashland in 2006 (after several theater visits in the mid-70s during grad school),
Steve has been enjoying many non-technical activities: hiking, backpacking, biking,
cross-country skiing, reading/movies (esp. Sci-Fi), grandparenting, improv comedy, craft beer,
and volunteering at Ashland CERT, OLLI at SOU and OSF.
I welcome feedback via Contact Us (under Home menu)
-- about topics, issues, pace, level of detail, other courses, etc.

Area-specific Details

Crosswords: CROSSWORDS and YOU and Practicum; Constructing Crosswords
Steve is a lifelong cruciverbalist (crossword aficionado) and logophile (word buff).
He has constructed and published crosswords.
His debut New York Times crossword appeared on Wed, 11/1/2023. His crosswords are now appearing in Ashland.news
Articles, Interviews
His CrozzWord application was awarded 1st place in the Entertainment/Educational/Multimedia
category in the JPDA 2002 Application Developers Contest for Zaurus and iPaq
sponsored by Insignia Solutions, HP, Intel, Metrowerks, Sharp, Softbank Publishing and Sun Microsystems.
Internet: Be Safer on the Internet; P@s$w0rdz; Internet History and Issues (aka 'Evolution of the Internet')
Steve discovered his computer obsession at Seattle's 1962 World's Fair,
coded his first programs at Univ. of Washington in 1968,
and used the Internet (then, Arpanet, for telnet, ftp and email) at Stanford Univ. ~1972.
CERT / Disaster: Disaster Preparedness: Almeda, Cascadia, Zombies
Steve has been a member of Ashland CERT since 2010.
He maintains disaster preparedness skills -- medical triage, disaster planning and response,
team organization, and radio communications (Ham: K7SWX) -- through ongoing CERT and FEMA courses.
He helps train other community and CERT members,
e.g., CERT Trainings and Refreshers.
E-books: E-books
Steve has been fascinated by "hypertext/media" and electronic books for several decades.
His 1981 PhD dissertation ("Searching for Information in a Dynamic Book") evaluated the use of
an electronic history book by 5th grade students; he subsequently researched interactive encyclopedias.
In 1995, he developed and distributed a hybrid book reader / web browser / development tool
-- Newt's Cape -- for the Newton MessagePad. Now, he enjoys multiple reading options on his Apple iPad.
Programming: Let's Program an App
Steve first programmed in Basic (teletype) and in Fortran & Algol (punchcards) in the 60s.
He taught Logo and Smalltalk to middle-school students in the 70s. He became adept
in high-level, object-oriented languages such as Smalltalk, LISP, NewtonScript, Java and JavaScript
in the 70s-10s on workstations, personal computers and handhelds.
He produced/sold Newton-based programming environments (NewtDevEnv and Newt's Cape) in the 90s.
His interest continues with Apple's Swift language and Playgrounds.
Shared Interest Groups: Sci-Fi Movies
Steve enjoys reading and watching Sci-Fi...