I am a computer scientist, software designer, and writer living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The joys of my life are my wife, Merry, music (I've been a jazz fan for longer than I care to count, and a guitar player for almost as long), our animals, and our home.

Our home is a beautiful old house in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains that we purchased in 2003. It was built in 1964 in the modernist style, which is unusual for Albuquerque. Although the prior owners loved the house as much as we do, the inevitability of time had left it needing work, and we have been restoring ever since. This takes up most of my spare time, and all my spare money.

Our animals are a gang of five cats who came to us as one week-old orphans. We bottle fed them (every two and a half hours for about six weeks), and happily all survived to become part of our family. We also host the occasional foster from a cat rescue that my wife started a few years back (although she keeps most of her rescued animals in a small foster house she has set up). Her organization, Fabulous Felines, is a small but growing charity.

As for my intellectual and professional life, the enduring theme continues to be my effort to reconcile my interest in science with a persistent calling to the creative arts. These twin passions have led to a long and diverse career. My education has spanned both the arts (a BA in English Literature with a specialty in creative writing), and science (a PhD in Computer Science). My professional life has seen me be a jewelry designer, health food store owner, professional musician, computer science researcher, college professor, and most recently, a computer scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, where I have pursued the wide range of opportunities that a National Laboratory has to offer.

These experiences and my commitment to designing software that will support working scientists in their work as it is actually practiced have led me to look past the narrow definition of science demanded by our culture's lust to place everything in neat categories, andI have grown more interested in the human context of science and technology. Fully understanding science within this context requires a broad synthesis of disciplines: cognitive science, biology, social science, art, literature, music, logic, history, philosophy, architecture, and, of course, computer and information science.

I hope you will share my interest in this broader synthesis by considering both the literary and scientific writing in this site.

William A. Stubblefield