graduate school | new york university 2001-2003
I was accepted to the Graduate Program of the Gallatin Division at New York University for the Fall Semester of 1991 May 9, 1991. I was living in Dearborn, MI at the time. My Gallatin advisor was Gregory Downing.
At first I was accepted to engage in interndisciplinary research in the construction of a Literature Poetry Machine, a platform of lexical and psychological databases that was to populate linguistic deep structure templates into "poems" for end-user analysis. Using psycholgical assesements as the main driver of lexical choices vis a concise Human Interface Design, the end-user (Reader) was to score the merit of the poetry, in the hopes that bi-lateral adjustments of the assesment tables could yield some hard data (truths) of the use of psychology assesment on the Automated selection of art.
My dean in this endeavor
was Ernest
Davis, PhD MIT, who studied under Chomsky, who said to me, "your
machine will not produce automated poetry on the fly, but it will yield very
interesing results." Professor Davis also encouraged me to take Artificial
Intelligence Honors at NYU, the course he was teaching at the Courant school,
but a new baby daughter encouraged me instead to take MBA courses at the Leonard
N. Stern School of Business, until moving to Seattle. I regret not continuing
in this Artificial Intelligence research vein, and may again soon.
Coursework taken was:
FALL 1991
Applied Statistics Econometrics I
- B+ (3)
Individual Study, Review of Literature - A (3)
Individual Study, Franz LISP programming - A (3)
SPRING 1992
Managing Organizational Behavior - A- (3)
Accounting I & II - B (6)
International Trade & Finance - B- (3)
FALL 1992
Operations Management - B (3)
Information Systems for Management - A (3)
TOTAL CREDITS: 27