Autobiography

David Wallace Croft

2006-01-02

Please also see my résumé and my family webpage.

1968

I was born July 17th, 1968 in a U.S. Army hospital in Okinawa. My father was a U.S. Air Force AC-130 navigator in Vietnam at the time and Okinawa was where the family was stationed.

1980

From 5th grade until my senior year of high school, I lived in Abilene, Texas. I attended Austin Elementary and Madison Junior High.

1986

I earned my high school diploma from Cooper High School.

1990

I earned my B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) in 1990. My focus was on digital electronics and computer engineering.

1993

I married Shannon Kristine Wood on September 24th, 1993 in Pasadena, California.

1995

I earned an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1995. My focus was on neural networks in hardware, software, and wetware.

My first child, Ada Beth Croft, was born June 6th, 1995.

1997

My second child, Benjamin Wallace Croft, was born July 24th, 1997.

2000

My third child, Thomas Edward Croft, was born February 12th, 2000.

2004

My book Advanced Java Game Programming was published in 2004.

I accepted employment as a Software Developer with Whoola to work on the Peer-to-Peer Virtual Reality Learning Environments project.

2005
2006