Who I Am _______ Where I've Been
I'm Jamie Ford (or sometimes James to those who either don't know me at all, or know me really well). I'm currently a graduate student in the Computer Science Ph.D. Program at Dartmouth College. Fillia Makedon is my faculty advisor, and my current work is a collaboration with the Brain Imaging Lab at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center/Dartmouth Medical School involving the comparison of spatial patterns in brain activations discovered with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
My curriculum vitae and resume are available online.
Dartmouth College
I grew up in Franconia, New Hampshire, which is a tiny little tourist town (well, OK, village) in northern New Hampshire. It's a great place to live (and ski), but I must say I get laughed at a lot regarding the size of the graduating class (35).
I was an undergraduate at Wesleyan
University in Middletown, Connecticut. That's the original Wesleyan,
not one of the dozen or so other ones around the U.S. It's definitely
not a women's school outside Boston. I graduated with a B.A. in Biology in 1991.
After Wes, I moved on to the interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence program at
the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. I
graduated with a Master's degree in AI in June, 1993. For about the
next year, I worked for what was then the mathematics and
computer science department at Dartmouth. In the summer of 1994 I
enrolled in the brand-new department of computer science as a graduate
student in the CS Ph.D. Program.
The DAGS '94 conference on parallel programming environments and the DAGS95 conference on electronic publishing and the Information Superhighway took up a lot of my time in the first couple of years year. Since then, I've finished my classes and qualifying exams, written a dissertation on classifying patients by their fMRI brain activation patterns, and worked as a post-doc in the Dartmouth Medical School, and started work as a Dartmouth Research Assistant Professor and ISTS Researcher.
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