Born at full-term but weighing less than 4 pounds, Alan has always had to fight to survive. In 1968, he joined Mensa and-with Andy Cicoria-won first place in a high-school science fair with a binary digital calulator that they built cooperatively. After graduating from Antioch College with a degree in computer science/political science, he learned Italian, studied electronic engineering at the Universita di Pisa, and studied Loglan, too. Back in the USA, at the New School for Social Research, he graduated with a Media Studies MA in 1994. Then, he taught himself Spanish and traveled extensively in Spain and Mexico. He currently lives nearby his two daughters and their mother....
