About me.
I was born and raised on the coast of Maine in the United States. I initially intended on studying computer science after high school, and attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts, while there I began reevaluating my academic inclinations and decided to change my field of study to linguistics. This resulted in my transfer to the University of Southern Maine, where I received my B.A. in Linguistics. I then chose to pursue a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science at Pratt Institute in New York City. Shortly after graduating, I sought a second Master's degree in Computer Science (in the academic library world this is referred to as one's subject master's and at some universities makes one eligible for faculty status). While pursuing this degree, I studied machine learning and did original research applying it to remotely sensed data, completing both the degree and a Certificate in Applied GIS.
More recently, I have been privately pursuing several lines of research. Currently working on a schematic exploration of social power through how people chose to organize society, as well as how mathematics instruction could improve by integrating (no pun intended) ideas from humanities. I am also interested in computational models of complexity especially system dynamics and agent-based modeling. My professional interests are:
- Systems Science
- Higher Education & Education systems
- History & dynamics
- Student risk-taking and innovation
- The
Grammar of Schooling
and education reform - Role of education in socio-economic systems
- Mathematics education
- Computational Social Science & Data Science
- System Dynamics
- Agent-based Modeling
- Evolutionary Computation
- Public Policy & Law
- Remote Sensing & GIS
- Political Economy
- The notion of the common good
- Public investment
- Monetary Theory & the political nature of money
- Practical wisdom
A tangential interest also exist in:
- Digital Humanities
- Epistemology/Morality/Philosophy
- Philosophical Taoism
- Biblical Hermeneutics
- Argumentation & Rhetoric
