Scot Young

Hello, friends;

I am Scot Young, I am a doctoral student in educational psychology and artificial intelligence at Oregon State University. My background is in computer programming and psychological assesssment. I have spent the last three years as a graduate assistant in the Department of Educational Psychology at Oregon State, where I have been researching the relationship between decision making and no win situations. Our team is investigating the human reaction to situations in which there are no clear or best choice solutions. We are building programming that will recreate the human reactions and responses to these situations so that computing systems can simulate them for learning purposes

I teach a graduate course in the educational administration program at OSU on ethical decision making in which the infamous case of the Kobayashi Maru is used as an opening exercise. Prior to my work at OSU, I worked as a educational psychologist in the Aurora school district in eastern Colorado. I am married and have four children, all girls. My wife, Anne, is a registered nurse and works in labor and delivery. We love to travel, and have been to every continent except Antartica. We are Quakers, although I was brought up by a Jewish mother

I hope to be done with my dissertation in about a year and at that time, we will be looking to secure a position as a professor at a university where I can continue my scholarship in ethical decision making. I enjoy science fiction and fantasy. C S Lewis' That Hideous Strength is one of my favorite all-time reads, closely followed by the Ender series by Orson Scott Card. I look forward to participating in this conference with you and hope to meet you all