A brief resume

I live in Oakland, California, with my family, which includes a mom, a dad (that's me) and and a daughter who is now in college. I like reading, music, computers, SCUBA diving, and being a pilot. I started playing the 'cello Summer 1997. The various pets, in their day, were very tolerant. And (since you asked) that novel, a murder mystery set in Berkeley in 1978, has two drafts done, and who knows how many to go...

Academic and work stuff

After graduating from Lick-Wilmerding High School, I did undergraduate work in astronomy and astrophysics at Caltech, and graduate work at UC Berkeley. Then I worked at JPL before returning to the SESAME program at Berkeley in 1982, finishing my Ph.D. in 1987. I worked for nine years with the EQUALS program at the Lawrence Hall of Science. It was great, but I left in 1992.

Now I am a freelance science and mathematics educator, working with Meg Holmberg. The two of us operate Epistemological Engineering ("helping you know how you know what you know ... since 1987") and its publishing imprint, eeps media. Since 2008, I have also been the faculty equivalent of a utility infielder at Lick-Wilmerding. In 2010–2011 I'll be teaching one section of statistics, blogging about the experience at bestcase.wordpress.com.

In January 1996, we published our first book at eeps, United We Solve; September 2002 saw our second, Fifty Fathoms. In 2006, we put out our first science title, A Den of Inquiry, Volume 1. Volume 2 came out in 2007; that puts some pressure on to finish volume 3.

In past years, I appeared in a set of televised math workshops for the Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project. More recently (Winter 2000), I've worked on some activities for their web site.

The biggest project I've worked on is Fathom, a piece of software for data analysis and statistics education. I am on its design team. It's from KCP Technologies, and published by Key Curriculum Press.

Currently thee eeps-y team is working on an NSF-sponsored project to develop web-based activities in which students learn about the nature of science by working in groups to investigate a simulated universe. That's nearly ready to show, and we're now working on another project called DataGames. All this is under the aegis of a company called Big Time Science.

Last updated August 19, 2010 . Caricature by Rose Craig.

P.S. The answer to the "Motoslybnia Question" is yes. Guro etsimala!