Alger is a 3rd year chemistry graduate student working for Nick Winograd at the Pennsylvania State University. His interest in programming started before he joined the group but he started with OS/2 only after he joined. His research has required him to rewrite the data acquisition software for the OS/2 platform. These programs control an angle-resolved time-of-flight mass spectrometer, which he uses to analyze surface chemistry using secondary ion mass spectrometry. Alger has written the following articles: A Hello World Device Driver - Part 1  (September 1996) A Hello World Device Driver - Part 2  (October 1996) A Hello World Device Driver - Part 3  (November 1996) From Hello World to Real World - Part 4  (December 1996) From Hello World to Real World - Part 5  (January 1997) From Hello World to Real World - Part 6  (February 1997) Adding Native Compression To Your Application  (May 1997) Dynamic Control Formatting  (December 1997)