Roy Corey:  

Life Our family moved to Albuquerque, N.M. in 1981. You may be thinking, Albq. is not the icon for education, but there were accelerated courses available during the day and advanced placement courses after school. After high school I went to the University of New Mexico, largely for financial reasons. At UNM I intended a degree in Computer Science with a minor in Psych, a good start for work in AI. When the time came, however, I found that I could just take 4 more psych courses and get my degree while CS was still at least a year off. I wanted to be done, so I opted for the reversal, a Psych degree and CS minor. There was also a year off where I was in the Navy at the Russian Language School, but it turns out following orders is not my strong suit and I left the Navy with a convenient medical problem with my hand. Then I went back after all and finished off the CS courses to get into the CS masters degree program. Before I finished with my masters, really as I was just getting started, I found the lure of easy money had a very strong appeal (Don Henley: Smuggler's Blues) and so went to work doing system administration full time which was, yes, easy and lucrative. During my stay at UNM I joined a few clubs, they were: fencing, cycling, aikido, brewing, society for creative anachronisms, and objectivist clubs. Fencing club suffered from fluctuating attendance. Our first instructor taught French style, then there was an absence of advanced instruction, and later an Italian style Provost (a position studying to complete a very difficult transition to fencing master via the Italian school) took over. I always liked French style the best, but the Italian style proved very effective and the instruction helped my game significantly. When I left the club I would have been a C rated epee fencer. I say would have been because, though I had scored into that category, I didn'...Expand for more