Hello World!

Hello there, reader! This is my first blog post. My name is Jonathan Vaccaro and I am a 4th year student at San Jose State University studying computer science. I really love my major a lot and I have been working towards my goal of becoming a career programmer since the age of 10.

I feel that what is most exciting about computer science is its vast potential to solve problems that were very difficult or even impossible to solve before computers were invented. For example, telephone networks and railway systems were very difficult to manage and maintain in a reliable way before the invention of computers.

I am very excited about the bright future of robotics and automation in particular. During my first three years at San Jose State, I had an internship during holidays where I worked with an inventor at his start-up company. This company, Cognisense Labs specialized in automation through the use of vision processing, artificial intelligence and robotics. During that time, I realized that there were many menial tasks in existence that could be automated in order to improve efficiency, keep people out of danger and make the world a better place.

I am also very interested in operating systems and operating system design. I am very fond of Unix and I mentally reference the Unix Design Philosophy as inspiration for every program I write.

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