Alger is a 3rd year chemistry graduate student working for Nick Winograd at the Pennsylvania State University. His interest in programming started before he joined the group but he started with OS/2 only after he joined. His research has required him to rewrite the data acquisition software for the OS/2 platform.
These programs control an angle-resolved time-of-flight mass spectrometer, which he uses to analyze surface chemistry using secondary ion mass spectrometry.
Alger has written the following articles:
A Hello World Device Driver - Part 1
(Volume 4 Issue 8 - September 1996)
A Hello World Device Driver - Part 2
(Volume 4 Issue 9 - October 1996)
A Hello World Device Driver - Part 3
(Volume 4 Issue 10 - November 1996)
From Hello World to Real World - Part 4
(Volume 4 Issue 11 - December 1996)
From Hello World to Real World - Part 5
(Volume 5 Issue 1 - January 1997)