Dr. Howard Jeffrey Bender

Howard Jeffrey Bender has had a long career both in and supporting scientific research. At Penn State University he helped study Jupiter's Great Red Spot using radio astronomy and discovered a new variety of tin while assisting in high-pressure physics research. He did physical and chemical analyses at the U.S. Customs Laboratory in New York for three years, was a computer scientist at NASA for 13 years, and taught software engineering at the University of Maryland for 27 years. He has written a paper on his DNA/RNA sequence research and has assisted in environmental biodiversity research in Japan, France, and the Galapagos. He was recognized for his visual improvement system by a Johns Hopkins University competition for Personal Computers to Aid the Handicapped and was awarded a patent for a process computers use to understand human languages. He's a mediocre bridge player, a very mediocre tennis player, and an extremely mediocre banjo player, known for being able to clear a room in less than a minute. He has a B.S. in science from Penn State University, an M.S. in computer science from Polytechnic Institute of New York, and a Ph.D. in education from the University of Maryland.