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D'être entendu
Dessines-moi un mouton.
Created on 2002-04-20 11:39:46 (#534412), last updated 2009-07-10
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Basic Info| Name: | krivard |
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| Location: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Website: | http://katie.rivard.org |
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katie@rivard.org BioIn January 2008 I left the PhD program at the Robotics Institute at CMU: I loved the research, but couldn't stand being a graduate student. So instead, I'm working as a research programmer for an enormous research project spanning 6+ different departments (ISR, RI, LTI, HCII, Design, ML, ICES, ??...), doing user-oriented design, drawing pictures, playing with Hypercard and Flash, being a spare developer, and basically doing all the things that made me think I wanted to go to grad school in the first place, and getting paid twice as much to do it, and not having to pass classes, either. Hooray!
In May 2006 I graduated from Olin College, an entrepreneurial engineering school in the middle of nowhere in Massachusetts. It was an experience that's been likened to building an airplane while flying it -- and having built freeflight model airplanes in high school, I know how silly, and how accurate, that description is. Engineer. Mac enthusiast. Realistic, idealistic. Half Canadian; I occasionally do have the accent. I write code; I am female; therefore I am typically outnumbered. Which is sad -- I'm interested in encouraging young women to get into ece and engineering and computing, to help fix this. Couples dancing makes me happy, so I do a lot of it, especially swing. I like bending my mind in weird directions, for instance, I missed the second half of my first calc lecture because my brain had wandered into inventing 4D integrals. Not just math though; I also like trying to explain concepts in unusual ideaspaces. You can use this to help teach people, which is really cool. I like analogies and metaphor, and good writing, and good design. Music is really important to me: I listen to a lot of different types, including the standby counterexamples like rap, country, and opera; I also sing and play piano when I get the chance.
I'm originally from the Seattle area, but I've gotten to like the east coast and hope to stick around for a while. I used to miss the Seattle summer music festivals most, but have slowly been discovering the hippie scenes in Boston(you'd think there it'd be easy to find...) and Pittsburgh. I still miss cedars and fir trees, and the uniquely interminable Seattle rain (although thunderstorms are a nice trade). But not the public transportation system. The T rocks. And Pgh understands buses. Sorry Seattle.
In May 2006 I graduated from Olin College, an entrepreneurial engineering school in the middle of nowhere in Massachusetts. It was an experience that's been likened to building an airplane while flying it -- and having built freeflight model airplanes in high school, I know how silly, and how accurate, that description is. Engineer. Mac enthusiast. Realistic, idealistic. Half Canadian; I occasionally do have the accent. I write code; I am female; therefore I am typically outnumbered. Which is sad -- I'm interested in encouraging young women to get into ece and engineering and computing, to help fix this. Couples dancing makes me happy, so I do a lot of it, especially swing. I like bending my mind in weird directions, for instance, I missed the second half of my first calc lecture because my brain had wandered into inventing 4D integrals. Not just math though; I also like trying to explain concepts in unusual ideaspaces. You can use this to help teach people, which is really cool. I like analogies and metaphor, and good writing, and good design. Music is really important to me: I listen to a lot of different types, including the standby counterexamples like rap, country, and opera; I also sing and play piano when I get the chance.
I'm originally from the Seattle area, but I've gotten to like the east coast and hope to stick around for a while. I used to miss the Seattle summer music festivals most, but have slowly been discovering the hippie scenes in Boston(you'd think there it'd be easy to find...) and Pittsburgh. I still miss cedars and fir trees, and the uniquely interminable Seattle rain (although thunderstorms are a nice trade). But not the public transportation system. The T rocks. And Pgh understands buses. Sorry Seattle.
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