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About the Author
Jeanine Meyer is a Full Pr of essor at Purchase College/State University of New
York. She teaches courses for mathematics/computer science and new media
majors, as well as a mathematics class for hu manities students. The web site for
her academic ac tivities is http://faculty.purchase.edu/jeanine.meyer.
Before coming to academia, she was a Research Staff Member and Manager at
IBM Research, working on robotics and manufacturing research and later as a
consultant for IBM's educational grant programs.For Jeanine, programming is both a hobby and a vocation. Every day she plays
computer puzzles online (set game, kakuru, hashi, hitori and—often, still—tetris), and she does the
crossword puzzle and ken ken in the newspaper (by hand and in ink—its easier that way). She enjoys
cooking, baking, eating, gardening, travel, and a moderate amount of walking. She greatly enjoys listening
to her mother play piano and occasionally plays the flute. She is an active volunteer for progressive
causes and candidates.