Hello, all!
My name is Caitlin Cacciatore, and I am an Artificial Intelligence Studies major. I designed a curriculum myself – one that includes coding, philosophy, upper-level math, and physics. I would like to focus my career on two primary objectives, namely putting my skills to use on a mission to Mars, and attempting to code empathy into AI. Both tasks are increasingly pressing and relevant as we enter into the age of the Singularity and an era of space exploration and colonization.
I am also a poet, and have been published in Encounters Magazine several times, as well as my local newspaper, The Rockaway Advocate, and two other journals – Toasted Cheese Literary Magazine, and Blink Ink. I am also trying to get a chapbook published by the time the year is out.
This photograph was taken by an Encounters photographer on a recent photoshoot for last semester’s magazine.
Some fun facts about me: 1. I have been working on some variation of the same space opera for about 7 years now. Ask me about it, and I will cherish you and your questions forever. 2. I am also artistic in a more traditional sense. I have worked for Queen’s resident artist since I was twelve years old, have taken classes she gives, and have learned much about the art world and managing a business from her. 3. My favorite show is, and always will be, Doctor Who. 4. I have a dog who sometimes goes by the name of Muffle-Puff, and a cat whose name would have been Bartholomew had I not been denied the honor and privilege of naming him. 5. I live within two blocks of the ocean, in a faraway land called Arverne by the Sea.
There is, of course, more to anyone then can fit into a short biographical post, so I will stop here. Brevity is, after all, the soul of wit.
I am looking forward to learning with you all.
