Since 2006 I have been working towards a research qualification at the University of Oxford, in the Constraints Research Group.
See the page on Andras Salamon's research for details of my research.
You are welcome to email me at andras@dns.net but please avoid sending mail to aawamCIK@dns.net since that will result in your address being added to my email blacklist.
In April 2001, the University of the Witwatersrand awarded me an MSc in Computer Science for a dissertation on task graph performance bounds (PDF format, 141 pages; an abstract is also available). My undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Statistics is from the University of Cape Town. Back in 1984, I won the South African Mathematics Olympiad.
In 1994 I joined Internet service provider The Internet Solution (now called Internet Solutions, a division of Dimension Data plc). As a director of the company, I established the services division to improve customer service and to contain support costs, and helped to set up and grow the security and training divisions into profitable businesses. Highlights were training more than 200 Internet administrators, drafting the defense in a complex legal dispute with the monopoly telco, and establishing a culture of automating systems administration through scripting.
During 2000, 2001 and 2002 I lectured and examined the fourth-year computer science course in Computer Networking at the University of the Witwatersrand. Over the last decade I have been a director of several private companies.
I like to spend time with my partner Vashti Galpin and our friends, listen to music, read, and cook and eat vegetarian food. Occasionally I explore the applied side of Kolmogorov complexity (also known as code golf; see also Shinh's golf server). My Cape Wine Master thesis was on Techniques to achieve moderate alcohol levels in South African wine.
I was born in Budapest, grew up in several different countries, and live in South Africa. We regularly spend time in Edinburgh which is my favourite city after Johannesburg, although Stockholm also comes close.
Salamon was king of Hungary between 1063 and 1074, and his father András held the same post between 1046 and 1060. In other contexts, Salamon is a female dog-like Digimon character, and Andras is apparently a kind of demon -- according to Wikipedia, anyway.
Technically speaking, the acute accent in my name is not optional (in Hungarian, "á" is a letter distinct from "a"). Then again, technically speaking, ASCII is a poor standard for information interchange, but I use it anyway.