About Me

Rumour has it Glen Low got the second only Macintosh ever available in Singapore, and has had a Mac or two since that day in 1984. He remembers it well -- reading breathlessly his fresh copy of Inside Macintosh, then tinkering with Quickdraw to make little lines dance across a tiny 512x342 b/w pixel screen. The early 90s were spent finding himself. While a graphic designer, game show contestant, science fiction magazine editor, youth group leader, comic book publisher, he found he was still a half-decent programmer and decided to move to Perth and make his bread and butter from it.

Now with over 12 years of experience in C, C++, C# and Java, having worked for Rio Tinto, Western Power and WorleyParsons on the Windows platform, he's returned to his first love.

His Altivec-optimised SIMD toolkit  macstl is well-regarded in numerics and high-performance circles since 2003. His port of  graphviz to Mac OS X took two prizes in the  Apple Design Awards 2004: Winner for Best Open Source Product and Runner-Up for Best New Product -- the first and only Australian programmer to win the award.

In 2005, Apple invited him to tour Australia and New Zealand to demo features of the new Mac OS X Tiger during their WWDC roadshow. Together with Apple staffers Phil Dempster and Tess Collins, Glen presented to Australian developers and even wrote code live during the show.

In 2006, MacResearch  interviewed him about high-performance computing on Mac OS X, the switch to Intel processors and the road to the Apple Design Awards.

In 2007, AT&T asked him to  further improve the Graphviz port for Mac OS X Leopard and write an equivalent viewer for Windows .NET.