Attended Ohio State University. Was part of the faculty at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

somebody please format this in whatever wiki-speak this wiki supports

Published in Usenix NT 1997. http://usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt97/usage_abstracts/Ross_Becker.html

Ohio State University, CIS Dept, IICF Staff

793 Dreese Lab, 2015 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, 614/292-7325

beckerr@cis.ohio-state.edu, http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~beckerr

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine has the contents of that deleted webpage, but it is just file indexes with none of the files archived.

* He made some posts to the following newsgroups between 1995 and 1997:

• comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg
• 3dfx.d3d.drivers
• rec.games.design
• comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg
• comp.os.ms-windows.apps.misc
• alt.music.pink-floyd
• comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure
• alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
• comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
• comp.infosystems.www.authoring.images
• comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
• comp.os.ms-windows.nt.pre-release
• rec.games.computer.quake.playing
• comp.emacs.xemacs
• rec.games.roguelike.adom

There's a Ross Becker who signs his name in a similar way here:

http://osdir.com/ml/apache.mod-perl/2002-07/msg00214.html

This message is also archived here:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/modperl/1298378

At this time, his email appears to have been rbecker@extremenetworks.com. Someone could contact this company.

A Ross Becker signed his name in the same way here (again, 2002): http://www.dbforums.com/showthread.php?s=e591ebc1aa6a66778c8330e1f60f1e11&t=430269

Probably the one time owner of the expired domain name "rbecker.org". Somebody should dig up whois information on him, if that's possible. (2004)

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2007/readings/hardware/vgadoc/INTRO.TXT Probably did his undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. beckerr@pyrite.som.cwru.edu There are some more Usenet postings using this email address from 1994 to 1995.

A Ross Becker signed his name in the same way here (2005) http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-November/113493.html

Also posted here in 2004: http://osdir.com/ml/horde.turba/2004-10/msg00044.html

NOT the Ross Becker from Wellington, New Zealand, via the Pro Photo Home website. (He is Ross W. Becker.)

NOT rbecker at gmail.com.

It appears the following indicates that he has allowed his code (pages 1 and 2 of this forum discuss it): http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?p=12993 -- nevermind. this edit is irrelevant with the release of 3.1.1.