He is one of those rare hybrids who combines the arts and the sciences, holding the M.S. in English from University of California at Berkeley and the M.S. in Computer Science from Temple University, and he has taken just about every Italian course that Gonzaga’s Department of Modern Languages offers. His honors and awards include an essay in Best American Nature and Science Writing, 2000, University Fellow at Temple, and Woodrow Wilson Fellow at U.C. Berkeley. He is putting the finishing touches on his forthcoming book on the experience of computing: Dim Sum for the Mind.