Splash Biography



PAX RYAN, Computer science major & musician



Major: CS

College/Employer: Yale

Year of Graduation: 25.5

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

Pax (he/him/his) is a senior from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and he mostly just wants to know why. Why do computers randomly crash sometimes? Why do people secretly enjoy terrible puns? And why does English call it "pineapple" when every other language called it "ananas"? If someone could fill him in, that would be greatly appreciated.

When he's not actively wondering, he dances on the Yale Ballroom Dance Team and plays saxophone and bassoon in various theatre productions on campus. He studies computer science, focusing on systems engineering of all kinds - distributed and networked systems, compilers, game engines...



Past Classes

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M4978: Why is the Internet Designed How It Is? in Splash Fall 2024 (Nov. 09, 2024)
You open a browser on your phone to look at cat videos, and in no time your device is talking to a server halfway across the world as if they were in the same room. How is this communication not only possible, but consistent when you factor in connectivity delays, dropped packets, and hackers prowling the web? Join us for an intuition-focused introduction to the architecture behind TCP/IP, the protocol suite underlying the Internet!