User:Tom Cool

Tom Cool is a true name. (Or, true enough: "Thomas Clark Cool" is the absolute truth.)

Email: wiki@tomcool.us

Website: www.tomcool.us Personal website

Wikipedia user page: Tomcool

First Citizendium edit: 23 February 2007

Academic background

• Bachelor in Arts, English, Pennsylvania State University, 1976
• Masters in Science, Computer Science, Naval Postgraduate School, 1987

Work history

• 1979 -1999 - Naval officer
• 2000 - present - Computer systems engineer, The MITRE Corporation

Areas of expertise

• Computer science
• History of Pittsburgh
• Science fiction

Publications

• Science Fiction novels:
  • INFECTRESS, Baen, 1997
  • SECRET REALMS, Tor, 1998
  • SOLDIER OF LIGHT (with John de Lancie), Baen, 1999
• Technical:
  • Co-Authored MITRE Technical Letters:
    • "eXtensible Markup Language (XML) Exports from Relational Databases," 2005
    • "Data Model Issues in a Database of Note," 2005
    • "Analytical Tools and Data Sources Survey," 2006
    • "Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Cross-Wiki Replication," 2007