User:KeithLofstrom

Wikipedia user "KeithLofstrom" is Keith Lofstrom currently of Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.. Keith was born in Portland, Oregon on September 5,1953 and was educated in Beaverton schools, Oregon State University, and the University of California, Berkeley, earning an MSEE in 1975.

Keith is currently building a new startup, Server Sky. Keith worked at Tektronix from 1971 to 1989. Since then, he has operated a consulting company, KLIC.

Keith invented a dynamic structure space launch system, the Launch Loop in 1981, and published an article about it in Analog Magazine in 1983, as well as presenting at the 1985 AIAA Advanced Propulsion Conference.

Keith left Tektronix to pursue analog extensions of IEEE 1149 Boundary Scan, which became part of the IEEE 1149.4 standard. He consulted for many companies, designing (among other things) large crosspoint switches for I-Cube Design Systems, many of which found their way into Cisco's internet routers. In 1998, Keith invented the ICID silicon identification cell, and formed the SiidTech company to market it.

Keith has been active on Usenet and the internet since 1981, originally as tektronix!tekvax!keithl, and has been using Unix ever since. After brief flings with UTek, ESIX, and BSDI, and some dalliances with the Dark Side of the Force, Keith has been using Linux and contributing to that community. Since 2004, he has maintained the dirvish disk-to-disk backup program, originally written by jw schultz.