Profile: Bruce Feist

Your personal background.
I live in Herndon, VA. I was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1958. Until 2000, I was a computer programmer/database administrator/corporate instructor; I quit my job to be a stay-at-home dad. When my daughter started attending preschool full-time, I decided to start a new career as a high school teacher. I now teach Math and Computer Science at Falls Church HS in Virginia.
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Schools that I've attended include PS 238 in Brooklyn (grades K-8), John Dewey HS in Brooklyn (9-10), Clarkstown HS South in New City, NY (10-12), Cornell University (Bachelor's degree in Math and Physics), George Mason University (Master's in Computer Science), and Shenandoah University (education courses).
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My hobbies are reading speculative fiction, collecting cameras, and photography. Special interests within that are cameras from the former Soviet Union, and stereo cameras. As I write this in March 2005, I'm a first-year teacher; this means that I don't actually have time for any hobbies. I'm looking forward to getting back to them this summer.
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I have a web site at www.flock.org, if you want more information.
Your opinions about Einstein@Home
My interest in Physics goes back to elementary school. In college, I was primarily interested in general relativity and particle physics; the most advanced course I took was General Relativity with Saul Teukolsky in 1978-1979.
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Since then I've gotten mostly out of touch with Physics, and I've forgotten most of what I knew, but I still have the interest. I've recently read a couple of books on string theory.
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I don't have strong feelings about the project; I'm too new to it. But, I find it interesting, and I have several computers that I don't like to see sitting idle when I'm not using them.

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