Dr. Howard Jeffrey Bender

Howard Jeffrey Bender has spent his career in and around scientific research, and his novels put that science to work. At Penn State University he helped study Jupiter's Great Red Spot using radio astronomy and discovered a new variety of tin. He spent 13 years as a computer scientist at NASA, taught software engineering at the University of Maryland for 27 years, and holds a patent for a process computers use to understand human language. A Johns Hopkins University competition recognized his visual improvement system for people with disabilities, and he has assisted environmental biodiversity research in Japan, France and the Galapagos.

His novels, Gaia's Climate Challenge and A.I. Emperor To Be, bring that background into fiction: one about the planet's last chance, the other about the future of artificial intelligence. His nonfiction, including Applied String Theory and Quantum Entanglement Untangled, explores physics and the biggest questions in life from a practical point of view.

He is, by his own account, an extremely mediocre banjo player. Follow him on Amazon to hear about his next book.