This is my first semester as a Master's student of computer science, and I'm excited to be here. I spend some of my free time playing Magic: The Gathering, reading science fiction, and playing with my cats.

I'm interested in AI as a way to understand the nature of intelligence better, as well as a really useful engineering approach. Alife is a really interesting way to further that agenda, to me, in that our current understanding of intelligence seems to indicate that it's an emergent phenomenon, and that would probably be easier to approach from the bottom-up.