I had harbored fiction-writerly ambitions for many years, but had never gotten around to it until now. Life had its way in the meantime, and after college, I found myself deeply engaged in the pursuit of a doctorate in Computer Science. Which I did acquire, from Rutgers University. Afterward, I turned away from research, and dabbled in teaching, then ran my own technology consulting business, worked in computing R&D, did a turn at a dot com company in New York (not all of these sequentially), and finally returned to Rutgers to tea more...
