Matt Browne's Profile

I'm a computer scientist and part-time science fiction writer. I've published a novel called 'The Future Happens Twice' which explores the question: 'Can we send frozen human embryos on an interstellar voyage?' If you'd like to find out more, please visit my website at www.meet-matt-browne.com

I am interested in Space Advocacy,Science,Reading fiction and non-fiction,Creative Writing,Computer Technology,Traveling,Learning languages,Photography,Renewable energy sources,Open Source,Linux,Intranet Search Engines,Collaboration Software,Service Oriented Architecture (SOA),Offshoring Models,Diversity and intercultural competency,Playing the piano,Playing Settlers of Catan. My favorite music are Alan Parsons Project,Barry Manilow,Beatles,Bernward Koch,Carly Simon,Electric Light Orchestra,Elton John,Enigma,Enya,Gabriel Faure,Gershwin,Herbert Groenemeier,Johann S. Bach,John Rutter,Patricia Kaas,Pink Floyd,Queen,Supertramp,Udo Lindenberg,Vivaldi,Wolfgang A. Mozart. Movies: Addicted to Love,Alien,Awakenings,Back to the Future,Bagdad Cafe,Bend it like Beckham,Billy Elliot,Coma,Contact,Dead Poet Society,Deep Impact,Enemy Mine,Forrest Gump,Futureworld,Gattaca,Groundhog Day,Independence Day,Jurassic Park,Minority Report,Nine Months,Notting Hill,Outbreak,Pleasantville,Pretty Woman,Rainman,Sleepless in Seattle,Star Trek,Time Machine,Truman Show,Working Girl,Yentl. TV: Stargate,Firefly,Battlestar Galactica,Star Trek,Murder She Wrote,Magnum,Charlie's Angels. Books: Sylvia Engdahl,Stephen Baxter,Robert Sawyer,Arthur Clarke,Robert Heinlein,Ken Follett,John Grisham,Dan Brown,Noah Gordon,Michael Crichton,Stephen Frey,Nick Hornby,Marcus Chown,David Brin. My Heros are Albert Einstein,Carl Sagan,Ray Kurzweil,Stephen Hawking,Hans Moravec,Galileo Galilei,Marshal Savage,Larry Page,Sergey Brin,Charles Darwin,Isaac Newton,Dietrich Bonhoeffer,Florence Nightingale,Gandhi,Martin Luther King,Sophie Scholl.

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