CyberDiner Co.

Len Day
Founder and CEO

led@cyberdiner.com

Len Day wrote his first computer program in the 6th grade. This was impressive at the time; in those days computers were big hulking boxes which required lots of power and made lots of noise. His teacher was very impressed. He used a computer at Cal Poly where his mother was studying computer science and business.

He started his first job as a computer programmer when he was 16. This was his first contact with the Jet Propulsion Lab. The project was researching the effects of weather on the microwave communications used to communicate with spacecraft in deep space. He also did a solar energy study for JPL at this time. The JPL person project director was Dr. Macgregor Reid. Today he is an advisor to the JPL director, has many scientific awards to his credit and is well known in scientific circles.

Although he was already working as a programmer, Mr. Day attended the first class offered in computer programming at Arcadia High school, and the first computer programming class at Glendora High school.

At JPL Mr. Day worked on the Viking, Seasat and Gallileo projects. He is currently consulting to JPL for the Cassini project, scheduled to launch for Saturn in 1997. During his years at JPL he managed one of the computer facilities used for structural analysis. This included the responsibility for helping new users. The experience allowed him to gain insight into how to design an easy-to-use computer system.

Mr. Day, a consultant for the last 10 years, has worked with Factory Automation Engineering (Hughes Ground Systems), Milstar Satellite Processor (Teledyne Systems), Real-time weather processor (JPL) and Fingerprint Matching Systems (Printak, Inc.), in addition to numerous projects at JPL.

Mr. Day's first contact with the Internet was before it was the Internet. In those days it was the ARPAnet and connected universities and government research centers together. Since then he has been heavily involved in research and other activities involving the Internet. CyberDiner is largely a result of a strong desire to see the benefits of the Internet broadly available to the general public.

Len Day at Kennedy Space Center helps to prepare the Cassini spacecaft for launch.