About the Author

David Pablo Cohn has had a broadly ranging career. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington and undergraduate degrees in Physics and Computer Science from Dartmouth College. He was the co-founder and Managing Editor for the highly-respected Journal of Machine Learning Research, and served as the technical lead for Google Labs. At present he deploys to Antarctica several times a year, serving as a software architect and systems/network administrator for the US Antarctic Program. Dr. Cohn has published non-fiction in such diverse venues as Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Flight Training Magazine and the Paris Review Daily. His first novella, Heller's Tale, has won praise from armchair adventurers and Antarctic veterans alike.