Aaron is a computer scientist with a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and currently retired after forty plus years in the IT profession.  He was managing Research and Development (R&D) projects for the National Library of Medicine, one of the institutes of the NIH.  His projects encompassed several disciplines including system development, artificial intelligence, image and natural language processing. He also was a Computer Science adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University. Aaron’s interests include astronomy, Asian art, and theater. Aaron is an avid bridge player, pickleball enthusiast and a Francophile.