Home Address:
41 Winter Street
Waterville, ME 04901-7336
207-877-7613

Here's some stuff you might want to know about me (a work in progress)

I was born in White Plains, NY, and grew up in DeKalb, IL. I got my BA from Wesleyan University, in Middletown, CT, and my MS and PhD from the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.

While at Wesleyan, I was a double major in Math (computer science emphasis) and Studio Art, though I didn't finish the art major. I also spent a lot of time working on the Wesleyan Argus, Wesleyan's semi-weekly newspaper, and worked for over a year at Wesleyan University Press

In between Wesleyan and UofM, I lived in Madison, Wisconsin, where I held a variety of jobs. I was a typesetter for a small design studio, called Abraxas; I was Guide Editor and Proofreader for Isthmus Newspaper (Madison's alternative weekly newspaper); and I was a not-so-glamorous graphic designer and typesetter for a small print shop.

After Madison, I started graduate school at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where I earned a PhD in Computer Science. I studied, worked, and played in the Artificial Intelligence Lab, where I focused on Machine Learning, including Genetic Algorithms and Soar, and also worked with robotics. My thesis work was a comparison of GA's and other machine learning approaches on a complex problem from epidemiology (the risk factors associated with coronary artery disease).

After leaving Michigan, I spent some time as a migrant worker for small elite liberal arts schools. For the academic year 1996-1997, I was a visiting assistant professor at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine. In 1997-98, I was visiting faculty at Bryn Mawr College, so we spent a year living in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In July 1998, we moved back to Maine, this time to the city of Waterville, where I am an assistant professor of Computer Science at Colby College.
Clare Bates Congdon, ccongdon@colby.edu