• Designed individual major and completed all courses for degree in "Cybernetics, Communication and Change" at University of California at Santa Cruz which included Computer Science courses. Studied top-down programming and computer language syntax while learning Algol and Pascal.

• Taught myself FORTRAN and APL while at Hancock Junior College, Santa Maria, CA.

• Excelled in and received school awards upon graduation in Math and Physics from Clifford J. Scott High School, East Orange, N.J.