Troutt, Suzan

Fred Rothganger earned his PhD playing with robots and computer vision at the Beckman Institute / University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Now he spends his days at a national laboratory trying figure out how the brain works. He is building tools to do massive neural simulations on supercomputers. When he gets fed up with lack of progress in the real world, he writes fantasies about scientific breakthroughs.