Philip Andermann:  

GANDHI: "I AM AN IRREPRESSIBLE OPTIMIST. NOT AT ALL BECAUSE THINGS ARE GOING WELL. RATHER, BECAUSE OF MY ABSOLUTE DETERMINATION THAT THEY WILL GO WELL." GOETHE: "THE WORLD ONLY MAKES SENSE WITH A SENSE OF APPRECIATION." I am class of '65. Graduated at age 16 because I came from Australia which had a different educational system. On the HS Math Team. (You can find me in the '65 Yearbook's picture of the Math Team.) Got a BA from NYU in 1969, majoring in Math and minoring in Literature. Along the way, I became an SGI Buddhist. (This Buddhism facilitated my transformation of Asperger's Syndrome from crippling destiny into functioning very sociably in society and into a destiny to help others who are suffering,) Got an MS in Math from Rutgers University in NJ in 1971. Began my real career in computer programming in 1979, working for Pan American World Airways starting as a trainee. By 1985 I became responsible for Pan Am's automated Flight Planning System and the Fuel Monitoring System tracking $1 billion in annual fuel consumption, as well as a key player for its Flight Tracking system. For me the automated Flight Planning system was the most intriguing. It was saving Pan Am $80 million a year, using Artificial Intelligence algorithms in primitive Mach...Expand for more