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<p>I grew up in the future, surrounded by the thoughtful evocations of
science fiction and a world of scientific horizons which entranced me.
I came to expect a world where our deepening scientific understanding
distilled mystery into awe (with a fraction of mystery left behind)
and where that understanding offered a power tempered with wisdom.
Fueled by visionary writers, my childhood universe was a planet and
cosmos open for exploration and a planetary (at least!) culture where
technology, hitched to compassion, transformed the human condition,
freeing bodies, minds, and hearts to continually shape a better world.</p>
<p>And ever since I grew up, I've been trying to get home.</p>
<p>As a technologist, I've tried to make tools which amplify and connect
human minds; as a scientist, I've tried to understand the way that
representations or models -- as a natural phenomenon -- connect minds
(of many sorts) to the world; as a faithful skeptic, I've tried to
understand how we understand God, and how trying to understand God can
make us smarter, kinder, and wiser; as a mentor and "manager", I've
tried to enable and amplify the genius of others; and as a human
being, I've tried to listen, care, and continually learn.</p>
<p>My current top projects are: creating a large knowledge base to enable
automatic understanding and inference; a social tagging site which
leverages that knowledge base to create sustainable social metadata;
refining and proselytizing a very broad model of representation which
grew out of my PhD thesis; and helping a Boston-based startup,
clearmethods, invent and deploy a language which painlessly makes many
more people into programmers.</p>
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