Daniel V. Wilson's Home Page

This website will be removed from the Web.

Before the end of November 2025 this website will be removed. The reason is mostly my lack of motivation for maintaining it and a near total lack of traffic. I haven't even made it available via SSL/TLS (https) either.

For the one or two of you that might notice and have questions, I can be contacted at website (at) DanielVWilson (dot) com. The domain name will stay active but for mail only.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.


That's me in a 1983 photo when I had a lot more hair. Photo by Roberta J. Wilson.

How-To's and various projects:

Lesk Radio  Over the years I've built and refined a Linux TM-based system that now records all programming from my two favorite radio stations, in my case WNYC-FM and WQXR in New York City.  I call it Lesk Radio in honor of Michael E. Lesk, the first person I saw use a computer to make automatic recordings off an external radio or tuner.

To come: sections on my adventures with Arduino boards and peripherals.

Work related items:

I'm best known for some work I did while employed by the Applied Research Area of Bell Communications Research which is now Telcordia Technologies. I designed and constructed an Ethernet monitoring device that allowed very long traffic traces to be recorded with very accurate timestamps and without loss of data. The data from the traces I made was used by a team of statisticians to show that Ethernet traffic is self-similar or fractal in nature, and that it displays long-term dependence.

I was priveleged to take part in writing a number of papers on the results of this research. Information on the most significant of the publications I was co-author on and why this research was important can be found here. A complete list of publications I contributed to can be found here.

Other items:

In years past a major section of this site was devoted to the family business I grew up in.

My biographical essay covers my life in Missouri and in New Jersey up until the time I joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1981.

The essay Dad, Archery, that Shop, and Me goes into some of the reasons I did not follow my father's footsteps and go into the family archery business.

Miscellany:

I've just realized I've not updated this thing in more than five years. A big reason why is how much I detest composing the pages of the site directly in HTML. Time to bring it out of the Dark Ages, most likely using the static site builder tool Hugo.



Maintained by Daniel V. Wilson. 

Last Updated 3 November 2025.