Resume
Charles Seife
E-mail: cgseife@cloud[DIGIT NINE].net
Homepage: http://www.cloud9.net/~cgseife/
EDUCATION:
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Columbia University School of Journalism, New York, NY, 1995-1996. 1996
M.S. in Journalism. Recipient, Nate Haseltine Memorial Fellowship. (Sponsored
by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.)
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Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1993-1995. 1995 M.S. in Mathematics.
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Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 1989-1993. 1993 A.B. in Mathematics,
Cum Laude. Senior Thesis: "A Probabilistic Method of Determining the Number
of Local Minima of a Multivariable Function," written under the guidance
of Charles Fefferman.
PUBLISHED WORK:
Articles published in:
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Author, 1997-present.
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Books: Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Viking, 2000), Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe (Viking, 2003).
Science, writer, 2001-present.
New Scientist, US Correspondent, 1997-2000.
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Specialty: science and technology.
Freelance journalist, 1994-1997.
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Specialty: science and technology.
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Contributing correspondent, ScienceNow.
Scientific American, News Intern, Fall 1995-Spring 1996.
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Duties included writing and generating ideas for articles.
The Economist, the Richard Casement Intern, Summer 1995.
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Wrote and edited articles and generated story ideas. Though the internship
was with the Science and Technology desk, some were published in other
sections. Topics ranged from nuclear testing to grammar checkers, coyotes
to Bosnia.
Earlier experience available upon request.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Languages:
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C
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C++
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Pascal
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T (dialect of LISP)
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BASIC
Hardware that I have crashed:
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IBM PCs and compatibles
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Various Macintoshes
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Cray 2
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A handful of Sun and SGI workstations
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DEC PDP 11/44
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
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Fencer, sabre and epee. Latest results: 32nd, 1997 Division II National
Championships, Men's Epee. Was nationally ranked as the 19th under-20-year-old
sabre fencer. (1991-1992 season)
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Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Tiger, Princeton University humor magazine.
(1992-1993)
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U.S. Chemistry Team member, 1989.
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U.S. Physics Team finalist, 1989.
(References available upon request.)