Paul Buis started life in Kalamazoo, Michigan, moved about in the midwest, and met his wife-to-be in a high school German class. Paul attended Hope College in Holland, Michigan, where he majored in Physics and Mathematics. Hope graduated him magna cum laude and elected him to Phi Beta Kappa, a Liberal Arts honorary; Sigma Pi Sigma, a Physics honorary; and Pi Mu Epsilon, a Mathematics honorary. After marrying his wife, Barbara, Paul went to Purdue University where he received M.S. degrees in both Mathematics and Computer Science.
While attending Purdue, Paul was the software architect for a firm that sold veterinary cardiology systems to automatically diagnose heart problems in dogs and cats. Eventually, Paul completed his doctoral work in computer science at Purdue and got a real job as a professor in the Computer Science Department at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He is also an instructor for the Technology Exchange Company, located in Reading, Massachusetts, which sends him around the country to give workshops on TCP/IP networking, the X Window system, C++ programming, and Unix system administration.
Paul and Barbara are the parents of three delightful children: Daniel, Jennifer, and Thomas.