Hello, I'm John LaMair
I'm a fourth year student at New York University studying computer science and its history.
About Me
I'm interested in computer science and the historical forces that have shaped it. Alongside coursework in computer science and a minor in math, I’ve studied the history of science, data, and technology, with a particular interest in how computing shapes society and inequality.
Outside of school, I enjoy skateboarding, filming and editing videos, watching movies, and going to live music shows in NYC and my hometown, Austin.
My Projects
Music Industry Force Graph
Interactive 3D visualization of relationships in the music industry, built from a Python-processed dataset of 900,000+ connections and rendered in JavaScript
Multithreaded RLE Encoder
A run-length encoder built in C that uses a POSIX thread pool
Creative Work
Type III Fun
A skate video I filmed and edited during sophomore year, featured by Quartersnacks and viewed over 180,000 times
THAT SUCKS
A skate photography collection from my senior year of high school, with all 50 copies sold on opening night
Bricollage Magazine
The inaugural print magazine for NYU Paris, created by a 15-person team under my direction as Editor-in-Chief