BioI became involved in computer science mostly out of idle curiosity in the early 90's, after I bought my first home computer. Fooling around with that outdated (even at the time) machine must have rekindled my old interest in math and science and I taught myself some programming. After awhile, I started taking classes through the CUNY BA program at Hunter College. At first I had not intended to get another bachelor's degree (my first was a BA in history from New York University), but at some point my interest in my courses overtook my job. After I finished the program at Hunter, I entered the M.S. program at Columbia, took the Introduction to NLP the first year, and in February 1998, left The Times and became a full-time student. |
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