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Member: frogman2

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Groups25 technical nonfiction books per year, Big ideas in education, computational sciences, futures studies, Purely Programmers, Schemers and Lispers, System Thinking, Systems Dynamics, Futures

Favorite authorsHal Abelson (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresHalf Price Books - Niles, Half-Price Books, Joseph-Beth Booksellers - Cincinnati, MIT Coop, MIT Press Bookstore, Phantom of the Attic - Comics, Quantum Books, The Harvard Coop

Favorite librariesCarnegie Mellon University Libraries - Engineering and Science Library

About meI play roles of Technical Lead, system designer, product manager, and usability consultant. Studied cognitive science, computer science, psychology, and artificial intelligence in college.

Interests and professional experience in neurobiology, healthcare IT, aviation, telecommunications, and AI (machine vision and robotics)

My profile photo is from 'Sealab 2020' (yes, I expected to spend MY 21st century underwater, back in the 1970s).

I started a group to talk about Lisp and Scheme books (the [Schemers and Lispers] group), as those languages and concepts from them are enjoying a renaissance of sorts.

About my libraryI enjoy books with the following themes:
- Human factors, usability, system design
- Architecture (technical and buildings)
- Design patterns
- Futures studies, forecasting tools
- Software engineering, computer science
- Science and technology
- Science fiction (distopian and utopian)
- Business trends ("fad surfing in the boardroom")
- Things from the 1970s (the Environmental movement)

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Member sinceApr 18, 2009

Currently readingWorking Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis (Bradford Books) by Beth Crandall
Circuit Design with VHDL by Volnei A. Pedroni
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben
Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown