UpGoer Your Ph.D.

A few hundred years ago, the people who run the place where we live had some money problems. They decided to have their people buy land to make some money. They got�...

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When I went to after-college college I studied different ways of telling computers how to do things, and different ways of explaining ideas to computers. If you have an idea that is a plan for wh...

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I study the way people write on the computer when they try to write like they talk and how the computer lets them. I got a lot of comments from people who use the computer to talk to other people...

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My job is to study the parts of us that change our food into power that helps us live, understand what happens when people get sick because those parts don’t work, and find ways to make these p...

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I am studying how people talk at each other about ways to go places, like cars and trains.  It will help us understand how people have word fights about the things that they use to do stuff. So...

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My paper is about the big old things that trains and cars go on in a city: the ones that are over the ground that the roads go under. No one planned very much for what would happen with the parts...

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I am studying what people think when they see another person’s face. So far I have found out that people pick up on whether that person is a man or a woman, how old they are and what they are f...

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This one type of stuff, which means stuff that always has an interesting field around it, has lots of use in computers and such things. This field changes easily when you do something to the stuf...

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If you take one tiny layer of the stuff from the middle of the thing kids write with (not the wood), and you roll that layer up, you have a small roll-up-thing. The small roll-up-thing is over on...

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This paper explains how stories show really good ideas of the self in ways that allow us to imagine how to live well. I talked about some stories by a woman and some ideas from a man, showing tha...

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I did three studies to see why we talk or sign in different ways over time.  Maybe it’s because the best way to talk or sign changes as our human needs change. If so, maybe we can see those ch...

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Big things are just many small things put together. It would be good to know which small things go together. You could learn how a brain works by thinking this way. Or you could learn which peopl...

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I pretend things for my job. Really I tell the computer what to pretend and it pretends much better than just me. But I have to pretend too, to make sure the computer is doing it right, because t...

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There was a man a very long time ago who wrote the first book about things that had happened. In the things he wrote, there was lots of fighting and so the people in control of places had to talk...

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When computers work together with each other, they do it by sending a lot of letters between each other. This can get very hard to understand for us humans, because computers are fast and many th...

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The world we live on is made up of a set of stuff, once it’s all used up, there isn’t any more. Also the world takes bad things and makes good things out of them: when we breathe out bad air,...

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Imagine that two people want to talk to each other, but don’t want a third person listening to their conversation.  There is a way to do this sending each other lots of little bits of light th...

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My becoming-a-doctor-work looks at why people did things when they did things. Especially looking at why people in one place did stuff with people from other places rather than doing it alone, or...

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I study drawing because it’s a good way to understand how people draw, how people draw well, how people learn to draw and even how people see. Drawing pictures by looking at things is hard but ...

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This book looks at the work of Dead White Man Number 1 and Dead White Man Number 2 and imagines what they would say to each other if they weren’t dead. The hope is that this will fix bad things...

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