Lighterra Information

Lighterra is the software company of Jason Robert Carey Patterson. The name comes from the words light and terra (meaning Earth), and the Lighterra logo is a translucent globe of the Earth encircled by a grid of light beams. Under the Lighterra name, I've worked on a surprisingly wide range of software, from the very lowest, most technical and "nitty-gritty" levels in the system, as close to the metal as you can get, right up to the highest levels, up in "web land", as far away from the hardware as you can imagine. My work includes the VGO cutting-edge code optimizer (the world's best optimizer, makes programs faster), the Threads++ threading library (allows use of multiple processors/cores), and various other low-level libraries (timers, strings, memory allocation etc). It's not all low-level systems software though, there's also been stock-market charting software, iPhone apps like a graphical speed dialer, and the EmbedVideo web video component. In addition to software, I've also published a number of articles and technical papers you might like to read, including a couple of very popular ones: Modern Microprocessors - A 90-Minute Guide! and The History of Computers During My Lifetime. The number of readers of those two articles is huge - they'd both officially qualify as "best sellers" if they were physical books. All in all, you may not have heard of Lighterra, but you probably benefit from my work every day without knowing it!