Some of you are my friends from way back or my students, alumni, and colleagues in real life. I probably know what you do for a living, then. For those who I know only recently through LiveJournal, or have just gotten in touch with again: what do you do for a living? Tell me as much or as little as you like: what company you work for (or if you are self-employed or unemployed); whether you recently changed jobs, or (if it is OK to talk about now) are about to change jobs or are looking for a job; whether your job is part of your career plan; and what made you decide on your present career.
Context: I'm just curious, but the title (taken from the song "Proud Mary", of course) was inspired by a nighttime rendition of "Proud Trippy" (Firefly-style) in
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.I have been a faculty member in Computing and Information Sciences (CIS) at

I earned my Ph.D. from the University of

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and Mosaic, the precursor to Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox. I had my own research program in the Automated Learning Group (ALG), which belonged under the "Strategic Technologies Initiative" (STI) division when I joined, was assigned to "Emerging Technologies (ET)" while I was there, and became the flagship of the "Data Mining and Visualization (DMV)" division after I came to K-State.--
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