Dave Wade-Stein received a B.S. and M.S in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2001. His dissertation research focused on the design, development and classroom testing of Summary Street, a web-based system which incorporates Latent Semantic Analysis to help students write better summaries by identifying missing, redundant, and irrelevant information.

Dr. Wade-Stein has over 20 years of programming experience and 13 years of teaching experience in programming, Unix system administration, operating systems theory and discrete mathematics for the Navy and the University of California at Santa Barbara. At Tech-X, he works primarily in C++, Python, Bash scripting, and Fortran, but he also has extensive experience in Perl, PHP, Java, Tcl, Ada, and Eiffel.