The Sentient Space - Log Entry 1: Is There Anyone Out There?

Jim Kent retired Area Postal Manager living in South West Victoria Australia - hobbies writing bush ballads and short stories

A Guatemalan native, Fidel has dedicated his life to the pursuit of design and execution of social research projects and evaluation systems, in particular with selecting, operationalizing, and creating the analysis plan of key variables and indicators. Fidel graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from the University of San Carlos of Guatemala in 2016, and pursued his Master's degree in computer Engineering at the Tomsk Polytechnic University in Russia in 2020. One of Fidel's hobbies include writing for fun, playing the piano and video games. When he is not writing or playing he is remembering to feed his pet turtle Lucy and loves bird watching.

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Judy Backhouse writes optimistic future fiction to create hopeful stories about how the human race could end up being better, but also to give her imagination a space to play, free from the straight-jacket of rational thinking. She keeps a fiction blog where she posts vignettes and snippets about her work in progress. In 2022 she had a (very) short story “Algorithmed out” published by Vine Leaves Press. Wearing her straight-jacket, Judy has authored more than fifty academic articles in journals, edited books and conference proceedings. She has also written a non-fiction book “Is a PhD for me?” aimed to help professionals to understand what graduate study is really like. For many years she ran writing workshops for academics and graduate students, to convince them that research writing could actually be fun. In her professional life, Judy has been a Mathematician, an Information Systems architect, a senior manager in the corporate world, advisor to a Minister of Higher Education and the Head of a School of Economic and Business Sciences at a South African university. Her current day job at the United Nations University involves researching how technologies can improve governance. Judy is a playful South African who currently lives in Portugal. https://judybackhouse.com/fiction