About Us:
Transmutable is a privately held company based in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
Our business revolves around the production of goal oriented web applications, "Transmutable Applications", which are linked by a common identity and payment system, "Avatar Accounts", to form the "Transmutable Network".
Management:
Trevor F. Smith has been creating web applications since 1995 when he worked for the (then new) Internet service provider, Mindspring. Since that time he has engineered web browsers at Be, Incorporated, lead application development for the web storage company, i-drive, and spent five years as a prototype engineer at Xerox PARC's computer science laboratory where he met Nicolas and Ian. He is the founder of the Ogoglio project as well as an active member in the San Francisco and Seattle web development communities.
Trevor is in digital form at trevor.smith.name and can be reached via email at trevor@transmutable.com.
Nicolas Ducheneaut spent the last few years as a research scientist in the Computing Science Lab at Xerox PARC. Prior to joining PARC he obtained his Ph.D.from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on understanding how people interact in online social spaces, and what technology could be built to support these interactions better. Recently he co-founded the PlayOn project and conducted the largest study of player behavior in massively multiplayer games to date, collecting data about the social networks created by more than 500,000 characters over two years in World of Warcraft.
You can reach Nicolas via email at ducheneaut@transmutable.com.
Ian Smith hangs around at Transmutable and acts like a CTO; strangely, no one has told him to go away. His primary functions seem to be sitting in front of large radiation emitters, banging the home row keys, causing patterns of one and zeroes to be formed, and complaining loudly. This complaining is often related to the quality of tea available to him, but more frequently is about the lack of an old-school, shotgun wedding between software development processes and the needs of actual users. Before his current loitering at Transmutable, he lounged about in Seattle's U-district under the influence of Intel Research. Previously, he ran the idle loop at PARC's Computer Science Lab and in the far distant past he annoyed people in the terminal rooms at Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech asked him to leave in 1998, PARC followed suit in 2003. He may, in fact, have no qualifications whatsoever.
You can reach Ian via email at iansmith@transmutable.com.
Paper Mail:
Transmutable4742 42nd Ave SW #326
Seattle, WA 98126