Nick Montfort
Principal at Nomnym
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Montfort is a Principal and professor of digital media at MIT who blends a Ph.D. in computer and information science with deep literary training to explore language through code, poetry, and design. He founded Nomnym to apply a rigorous naming methodology to companies and products, and has produced over forty creative digital projects alongside multiple books of poetry and a 2016 MIT Press book on exploratory programming. With 15+ years of experience, he teaches and researches at the intersection of computational writing, constrained and conceptual poetics, and digital media, bringing scholarly rigor to practical naming and creative coding work. Known for writing small, inventive programs that foreground language, he has collaborated with leading poets and studied under a US Poet Laureate and a Nobel laureate, an uncommon combination of computational and literary mentorship. Based in New York, he maintains archival code repositories and emphasizes reproducible, exploratory practice rather than frequent public code updates.
15 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer and Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer and Information Science at University of PennsylvaniaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Science (M.S.), Media Arts and Sciences, Master of Science (M.S.), Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Arts (M.A.), Creative Writing, Master of Arts (M.A.), Creative Writing at Boston University
Github Skills (6)
calendars6
icalendar4
caldav4
nextcloud3
owncloud3
webcal1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nickmontfort/curveship-js
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Online narrative variation, allowing author/programmers to have the same underlying story told interactively in different ways.
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 160 commits in 2 years
gamevariation
nickmontfort/generative_unfoldings
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 days
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