We are going to be meeting Saturday afternoon and making super cool plush robots.

Matt Jadud is a Senior Computer Scientist at ARiA and a new Research Associate with the Computer Science Department at Carleton College. What that means is that Matt is collaborating with Carleton to support research and internship opportunities for students that involve computation in the arts, education, and sciences. What that means for students is that Matt is looking for people to collaborate with on paid research and development internships during the summer and, if it makes sense, during the academic year.

For the past 15 years Matt was faculty at small liberal arts colleges that, like Carleton, were nestled off in small towns where the only trouble you can find is the trouble you make yourself. ("Good trouble," as Rep. John Lewis would admonish us to get into.) He works across a wide range of fields, from collaborations with dancers exploring sensing and the arts to big-data mining of the behavior of novice programmers to the design and development of low-cost open source environmental sensors to data languages to enable robust and secure distributed systems.

Matt currently lives in Maine, where there is lots of snow and lobster, to contrast with Northfield, which Matt understands only has great lobster fishing. There's lobster fishing in Minnesota, right?