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I live in the United States with a spouse and cat(s).  Worked 40 years as a programmer, sysadmin, professor, and tech-of-all-trades consultant.  Formal education: M.A. in public sector management; and M.S. in computer science, most of a Ph.D. (not completed) in Germanic linguistics and literature, and B A. in liberal arts, major English.  I joined this wiki in 2007.  Some articles I have worked on:


NOTICE: I am currently looking for Citizendium article topics for several groups of 2-4 students, related to an "emerging technology" (something that is a "hot topic" these days). Other requirements for a good topic are that it is not yet satisfactorily written up in either Wikipedia or Citizendium.  There must also be something they can find out about it using the Penn library resources that are not available just by Googling (i.e., a refereed journal article, or a market report that costs money, etc.).  The course is described at [[CZ:Special_Topics_2010|Emerging Technologies 2010]].  Please leave any topic suggestions on my talk page--those would be very welcome!  Ideally for a brand new article to be produced in Citizendium (or something that is little more than a stub).
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In my current day job ([http://www.ansp.org Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia]), I do database work, programming, and system administration.  I have masters degrees in computer science (Univ. of Tenn., 1983) and public sector management (Fels Center, Univ. of Penn., 1992) and many years work experience in the software industry, especially telecom.  My academic background includes public sector management, computer science, and the liberal arts (linguistics and literature).  I am also a part-time lecturer in the Computer & Information Sciences department at the University of Pennsylvania, where I have taught computer architecture, software engineering and programming in the [http://www.cis.upenn.edu/grad/mcit/index.shtml MCIT program] at the University of Pennsylvania.
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I spent several years consulting on software systems within pharmaceutical and insurance companies. My early computer career included several years’ experience developing telecommunications software at [[Bell Laboratories]], originally part of [[AT&T]] and then part of [[Lucent]] (now Alcatel-Lucent).  
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In my "youth", I spent three years doing graduate study in Germanic linguistics (specialization: semantic change in Middle High German) at the Univ. of Tenn but switched over to computer science without quite completing a linguistics degree (I was working on a Ph. D.).  During that time, I read Old High German, Old Norse, Icelandic, Middle High German, Afrikaans, Pennsylvania Dutch, Yiddish, various regional German dialects, and also studied Spanish, Latin, and Russian.  My undergraduate degree was liberal arts with a concentration in English literature and German (which I speak fluently).  I also took a lot of physics, math and science, and that enabled me to move into computer science afterwards.


I also spent a couple of years in the 1970's as a telephone switching technician, working for GTE in Virginia, where I worked on some of the last Strowger switching offices remaining in the United States.  I also repaired electromechanical telephone switching systems made by Leich, that had so-called ''common control'' units for call routing--in effect, a fully electromechanical, special-purpose computer.  I could see numbers being stored in registers as people dialed.  This is where my interest in computing really grew strong, and I moved into the field of [[computer science]] afterwards.
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More about me personally is [[http://www.harbormist.com/pat/ here]].
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As part of getting to know Citizendium, I first worked on [[CZ:The_Big_Cleanup]], and that led me all over the place.  [[Special:Contributions/Pat_Palmer|Here]] is what else I've been working on in Citizendium.  Besides authoring, among other Citizendium roles, I am a Computers editor, and am currently serving also on the Citizendium Executive Committee.  Drop me a line if you have any questions or concerns.
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During July-August 2008, I led an [[Eduzendium]] course; please see  [[CIS_700_Special_Topics_2008]].  See the [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=CZ:CIS_700_Special_Topics_2010 2010 Eduzendium for this course] (coming in July).


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I live in the United States with a spouse and cat(s). Worked 40 years as a programmer, sysadmin, professor, and tech-of-all-trades consultant. Formal education: M.A. in public sector management; and M.S. in computer science, most of a Ph.D. (not completed) in Germanic linguistics and literature, and B A. in liberal arts, major English. I joined this wiki in 2007. Some articles I have worked on:

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Things needing my attention:

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