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I studied at Carnegie Mellon. I went there with a bunch of really, really talented kids.

I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.

I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.

Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

I went to Syracuse University.

I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.