scratchwork
a tool for developing and communicating technical ideas

John Stogin
scratchworktool.com

Digital tablets are no longer new or even expensive, but most of us still struggle to input our technical ideas (such as equations and diagrams) into a computer as easily as we write them on paper. I will discuss relevant existing technology and present scratchworktool.com, a tool designed to help simplify the digital writing process even without a tablet. I will also cover some of the important decisions and mistakes I made especially as I started building it. I hope these lessons will be helpful for anyone who is (or may eventually be) interested in developing similarly sophisticated products to solve a consumer-facing problem.

Videos:

• Join the live presentation. Wednesday 4:30-5:45.  Requires Microsoft Windows Media player.
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About the speaker:

John Stogin is a mathematician and computer enthusiast. As a PhD student at Princeton, he studied partial differential equations arising from Einstein's theory of Black Holes and started scratchworktool.com as a side project to help with his studies. He earned his PhD in mathematics at Princeton in 2017 and also has a Master's degree from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor's degree from Princeton. He currently works as a quantitative technologist at Radix Trading and continues to develop scratchworktool.com with his cofounders.

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