Thank you for dropping by my home page! I am a retired computer science professor and AI researcher living at Pushaw Lake in Old Town, Maine.
About me (although why you'd be interested is beyond me!)
Professional:
Curriculum vitae is here
Worked at the University of Maine (1995 - 2024)
Retired, appointed Associate Professor Emeritus in the School of Computing and Information Science in 2024
Co-director, with my late wife Elise H. Turner, of the Maine Software Agents and AI Laboratory (MaineSAIL)
Was a Visiting Senior Research Scientist, Northeastern University Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (1995)
Worked at the University of New Hampshire (1989-1995)
Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) at the University of New Hampshire (1989-1995)
Co-directed, with Elise H. Turner, the Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving (CDPS) research group
Adjunct in computer science, Indiana State University Evansville (now University of Southern Indiana), 1982
Associate programmer, IBM, Lexington, KY, 1981 (with three prior co-ops between 1977-1980)
Adjunct in computer science, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY (1980)
Eduction:
PhD in computer science (artificial intelligence) from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1989)
MS in computer science, Georgia Tech (1987)
Attended University of Louisville Medical School (1982-1984), top 10% of class; hated it, left
BS in computer science, University of Louisville's Speed Scientific School (1980)
High School: Bardstown High School (Kentucky), graduated 1976
Other: Classes taken at Indiana State University Evansville, Eastern Kentucky University, Shoals Marine Lab (Cornell/UNH)
Personal:
Born: Bardstown, Kentucky, 1959
Married to Elise (Hill) Turner, 1988 - 2008 (widowed)
Daughter Kathrina E. Turner, born Bangor, Maine, 2000
Lived in: Bardstown, KY; Louisville, KY; Lexington, KY; Richmond, KY; Evansville, IN; Atlanta, GA; Dover, NH; Newmarket, NH; Bangor, ME; Old Town, ME; Hampden, ME