Aldon Hynes
Aldon Hynes first started programming computers in the late 60's. In the early 80's as a consultant to Bell Labs he first got on the Internet.
Most of his career has been providing information technology to Wall Street firms. During his time on Wall Street, Aldon became interest in the group dynamics of organizations. In particular, he is interested in Group Relations tradition of Wilfred Bion and Tavistock, how this all relates to group psychology and especially how it plays out in online communities.
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Aldon Hynes
Aldon Hynes first started programming computers in the late 60's. In the early 80's as a consultant to Bell Labs he first got on the Internet.
Most of his career has been providing information technology to Wall Street firms. During his time on Wall Street, Aldon became interest in the group dynamics of organizations. In particular, he is interested in Group Relations tradition of Wilfred Bion and Tavistock, how this all relates to group psychology and especially how it plays out in online communities.
Aldon's political activities currently involve working as a volunteer in the Howard Dean campaign. In particular he has set up several DeanSpace based websites, and moderates several mailing lists.
He contributes to several blogs, has had articles published on a wide ranging set of topics from hedge fund technology to group psychology of internet communities and has present reseach at conferences on the Dean Campaign's use of the internet.
Aldon can be reached via IM as ahynes1 on AIM and Yahoo, ahynes1@hotmail.com on MSN. He is active in many MOOs and can be reached there as aldon. These MOOs include LambdaMOO, DhalgrenMOO, and MOOs that he hosts, such as LogMOO, PangaeaMOO and CastleMOO. Using a MOO-IRC interface, he is also often found on Dean related IRC channels on freenode.
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