0x55534C is an account created by an LSU undergraduate student in Kari Walters' ISDS 4120 course for use in a semester-long Wikipedia Ambassador Program project to improve networking-related articles on Wikipedia. The student behind this account actively contributed to Wikipedia in the past, and will continue to do so under this account for an indeterminate amount of time, although the aforementioned project is now complete.

LSU WikiProject United States Public PolicyThis user is a participant in the U.S. Public Policy WikiProject at Louisiana State University.

The student's interests include programming, computer networks, computer security, reverse engineering, discrete mathematics, the Japanese language, visual art, and cooking, among other things. The student can program in C, C++, Java, PHP, and a number of other languages. The student is somewhat proficient with Photoshop, enjoys drawing as a hobby, and can speak and write Japanese at an intermediate level.

The student also enjoys a bit of recreational programming here and there:

// Assumes execution on a little-endian system
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int _) { printf("%s\n", &_, _ = 0x55534C); }