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Myra VanInwegen |
Myra VanInwegen
I live in Cambridge England. I have been here since 1996. I have a very nice husband, Simon, and two great kids, Ellen and Luke.
Workwise, my two main loves are mathematics and computer science, and I enjoy teaching both. The thing that ties these together, to my mind, is the use of logic and reasoning to solve problems of various kinds.
I have a bachelor's degree in maths and a PhD in computer science. My PhD thesis was in a fairly mathematical area - automated proof. After getting my PhD I worked as a post-doc at the University of Cambridge for four years, and then as a software engineer for 8 and a half years. I lost my software engineering job in 2009 when my company went belly-up in the recession. For the past 3 years I have been doing quite a bit of small-group and one-on-one teaching: supervising University of Cambridge computer science undergraduates, and doing A-level mathematics tutoring. I have just joined the Raspberry Pi Foundation to help coordinate the educational side of things. There will be certainly plenty to keep me busy, as Raspberry Pi is generating a huge amount of interest.