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This is the personal site of Mike Travers. I'm a software engineer, designer, writer, and researcher in the San Francisco area.

I'm interested in tools to make programming easier and more expressive, for children, scientists, and others. I got a PhD from the MIT Media Laboratory in this area in 1996, focusing on the role of agency as a concept and metaphor in programming environments.

More recently I've worked on a wide variety of systems for scientific and medical computation. These application areas tend to have the hardest knowledge management tasks, and there is a huge potential for better software to support this. My work tends to have one foot in knowledge representation (ontologies, graph databases) and the other in user interface design. I work mostly in Lisp languages because they are the best for this sort of thing.

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