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Favorite authorsRichard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett (Shared favorites)

About meI spent 27 years in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. I helped build a state of the art automated manufacturing system for bent sheet metal parts. (Sort of origami in metal.)

For many years I was an elected member of CMU's Staff Council and was appointed to serve on the University's Human Relations Commission. I played a significant role in winning domestic partner healthcare benefits for staff and faculty. I was unsuccessful in trying to get the university to care about light pollution. They lit a large, silly outdoor sculpture from the ground. In October 2007 I moved back to Texas.

I grew up in Port Arthur, Tx, and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1965. Until the end of 1968 I attended Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont, majoring in Mathematics and Physics. I was at the University of Houston 1968-71. I got my B.A. in Philosophy in '69 and stayed to do graduate study for a couple of years. I was in the Ph.D. program in Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 1971 until I left to become a computer programmer at CMU's Robotics Institute in 1980.

About my librarylots of gay books, lots of science and philosophy, lots of classic fiction

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Member sinceOct 6, 2006

Currently readingThe Private Diary of Mr. Darcy: A Novel by Maya Slater
Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology by David B. Williams