Ron Schnell | |
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 Ron Schnell in 2011 | |
| Born | November 10, 1966 |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Ronnie Schnell, Ronald Steven Schnell |
| Alma mater | Syracuse University |
| Known for | speaking at NYU (age 14), co-founder of Mail Call, CTO of Paul'16 |
| Website | www |
Ronald Steven Schnell (born November 10, 1966) is an American computer programmer in Weston, Florida. He was co-founder of Mail Call in 1997 and the chief technology officer of Rand Paul's 2016 presidential campaign. [1] [2]
Schnell began programming in 1975 (age nine), on the IBM 360 mainframe. [3] [4] [5] [6] In 1981, he tested and spoke about SETL (for VAX minicomputers) at NYU's Courant Institute. [3] [4] [5] In 1982, Schnell wrote a chat program for Telenet called NET-TALK, while at the Maryland timesharing company Dialcom; this led to helping test the BBC Micro. [7] Schnell wrote [8] [9] the text adventure game DUNNET in 1983 for MacLisp [lower-alpha 1] and 1992 for Emacs Lisp. [lower-alpha 2] After high school, Schnell attended Syracuse University from 1984 through 1986, [lower-alpha 3] and was a DJ on WJPZ-FM
Between late 1986 and throughout the 1990s, Schnell was a Unix kernel consultant. [lower-alpha 4] He moved to the west coast, and founded his first startup in 1990, Secure Online Systems. [10] He co-founded Mail Call in 1997 in Florida; the product used IVR and back-end text-to-speech (subscribers could call a toll-free number, and check their email via the telephone—Mail Call was before the invention of the smartphone). [11] [12] [13] From 2002 to 2005, Schnell was a divisional vice president at Equifax. [14] [lower-alpha 5] Schnell was general manager of The Technical Committee in Seattle, a court-mandated computer-software-nonprofit that monitored Microsoft's compliance with a federal court ruling. [15] [lower-alpha 6]
Starting in 2013, Schnell became an adjunct professor of Computer Security [lower-alpha 7] at Nova Southeastern University. [16] In 2015, Schnell also became CTO of the Rand Paul presidential campaign; he hosted a hackathon in San Francisco during July 2015. [1] Schnell designed the app [lower-alpha 8] for Paul'16 (featuring a hidden game, vote feedback, donations, and virtual-selfies). [17] [18]
Schnell was married in 1994, and has two children. Schnell's home automation system, which he helped specify, was profiled in 1998. [19] Schnell plays Segway polo, and in 2007 co-founded the Polo Bears team. [20]
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...14-year-old Ronnie Schnell...is one of NYU's youngest undergrads this summer. He's helping to test a new computer language called "Pseudo-Parallel SETL." ... He started at 9.
...Rockland Community College...
...Dialcom Gold computers are [P]rime 5000 units and are connected to a worldwide network of similar machines. ...If I want to send a letter to Ronnie Schnell in New York, I type MAIL SEND RONNIE and my system directs the letter to him. ...We use the system for exchanging computer programs. His copy of Defenders was sent over by electronic mail... (More on Ronnie later.) ...Telecom Gold can turn up some surprises. One day I typed the NET-TALK command which enables you to talk to people on the network. ...I asked if he [Ronnnie] did any serious programming or whether he just mucked around and played games on the system. I was put firmly in my place by being told that he had written the international conferencing software we were using! ...I asked how old he was. The reply was 16! It will not surprise you that a short time later Ronnie received a BBC computer system. He has since been invaluable in helping to prove the file transfer software Acorn have developed. ...
{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)Acknowledgments. Contributors to GNU Emacs include ...Ronald S. Schnell.... ...M-x dunnet runs an[sic] text-based adventure game....Paul campaign is releasing a smartphone app... Ron Schnell, the chief technology officer of the Paul campaign and architect of the app.
...Paul (R-KY) released an app promoting his bid for the [presidency] ...chief technology officer of Paul's campaign, Ron Schnell... who served as the chief architect of the app...
...sports-centric room of a Florida family... nine-screen video wall... the Schnells decided to design a video wall.... Ron, a software engineer by trade and technical tinkerer in his free time, had his own ideas for the video wall, but he couldn't do it alone. ...six surveillance cameras.... whole-house cable network ... face-to-face [video-conferencing].... With a little tinkering, Ron gave two of the small TVs... any channel at any time [capability via] X-10... commands to various lights and appliances... [via TV] remote, an X-10 keypad, or any touchtone phone.
...About the author: Mr. Ron Schnell is an adjunct professor of computer security at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale Florida...