Blog Post Zero: Introduction

Hi! I'm Kate. Here's a not-so-great picture of me:

Email: k8wells@tamu.edu

Class standing: 4th year senior (graduating in May!)

Taking this class because: I think CHI is important in every branch of computer science/computer engineering.

My experience: I've done research in the Multirobot Lab (map-based planning and task assignment for multiple robots), and I worked on a 3D scanner in CSCE 462. I also worked in IT for 2.5 years.

My professional life goals: I want to work in defense, especially in reconnaissance and intelligence acquisition. I'd particularly like to work for the NSA or a Dallas-based defense contractor. I hope I can help innocent people that way...

Personal life goals: I'd like to have a family and a smallish, cute house that I renovated myself. I'd also like to become an awesome ice skater (we'll see about that. I can go forward and turn left really well)

After I graduate: I'd love to get a job to start working towards my professional life goals...

What I expect to be doing in 10 years: do we ever have any idea?

Biggest technological advancement: machines that REALLY learn. Sure, we have some with specific learning sets, but if a computer can learn a large variety of things like humans can, that would be huge.

If I could travel back in time: I have no idea who I'd meet--too many influential people to even count. My mind goes blank every time I try to pick.

My favorite shoes: are brown leather boots with small wedge heels. I can walk in them really well and they make me feel awesome.

I'd love to be fluent in: Chinese. It seems practical and I would feel less ignorant about the world in general.

An interesting fact about me: After a near-death experience when I was 13, I got a pacemaker/defibrillator.