Gabe Johnson

I work at the intersection of design, computer science, and sociology. There are no traffic signals so it is kinda dangerous to stay in that intersection, but it sure is fun.

My startup makes Zotebook, an app for designing things for laser cutting. It was based on my PhD work from CMU. Basically, instead of treating sketch recognition as a machine learning or AI problem, I treat it as a (much easier) interaction design problem.

This is like the ninth time I’ve had a blog. The first was from 1996 (before ‘blog’ was a word), which I made out of bits of Perl 4 and bash scripts as a way to teach myself how to program.

The most recent of my blogs is still there, mouldering away at Blogger.

I live in Boulder CO.