User:Doctorambient

I am a cognitive scientist in terms of my highest degree, but mostly an applied mathematician and statistician by training and inclination. Currently collaborating with computer scientists on problems of logic, deduction, abstract semantics, logical and mathematical formulation of natural language, ontologies, and databases. And for the better part of a decade before that I studied ancient art (primarily Egyptian and Middle Eastern) and history and sociology of religion. I have spent a lot of my time lecturing at six different universities in departments of statistics, mathematics, psychology, and cognitive science. I'll refrain from listing the universities here as I speak for myself, not for them.

I started a technology business, and like a lot of these it failed; a couple more of those then I'll have a success. I currently have a consulting business in statistics, applied math, and computational science. Additionally, I am employed as a research scientist on various projects for several departments at Georgia State University.

However, business—while sometimes necessary and challenging—is not my first love. That would be research, focused on a variety of topics over the years: science, logic, history, religion, and art; for the most part. These days I am retooling myself as a conceptual artist with an artistic practice focused mostly on technological, technologically-derived, and computer arts.

I love to talk to people about almost any of the topics listed above.

I have contributed to Wikipedia for many years but only recently bothered to register an account. I actually enjoy editing text for readability, and most of my contributions have been for grammatical issues and the like. Sometimes I can't sleep at night thinking that someone out there on the internet is using bad grammar.