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I spent 27 years in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. I helped build a state of the art automated manufacturing system for bent sheet metal parts. (Sort of origami in metal.)

For many years I was an elected member of CMU's Staff Council and was appointed to serve on the University's Human Relations Commission. I played a significant role in winning domestic partner healthcare benefits for staff and faculty. I was unsuccessful in trying to get the university to care about light pollution. They lit a large, silly outdoor sculpture from the ground. In October 2007 I moved back to Texas.

I grew up in Port Arthur, Tx, and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1965. Until the end of 1968 I attended Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont, majoring in Mathematics and Physics. I was at the University of Houston 1968-71. I got my B.A. in Philosophy in '69 and stayed to do graduate study for a couple of years. I was in the Ph.D. program in Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 1971 until I left to become a research computer programmer in CMU's Robotics Institute in 1980.

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Do These Gay Rights Leaders Deserve So Much (Or So Little) Cash?

Every time you donate to GLAAD, 3.5% of your donation goes to pay the CEO’s $251,034 salary. When you donate to HRC, 0.7% goes to the CEO’s $302,200 salary. Although the two CEO’s salaries are similar, HRC’s budget is six times larger than GLAAD’s. HRC might look like a good deal, but HRC once supported homophobic Republican Senator Alfonse D’Amato in New York instead of a gay Democratic challenger. Lots of us stopped trusting HRC when they did that. If you donate to National Stonewall Democrats, 9.1% goes to the CEO’s $59,500 salary, but Jon Hoadley runs an organization just 1.6% the size of HRC. Geoff Kors of Equality California gets $171,000, just 0.7% of EQCA’s budget. Does he earn it? His group was ineffective in stopping Prop. 8.

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