Vital Statistics

  • Name: Kristin Jacque
  • Age: 23
  • Education: B.S.E. in Computer Science at the University of Michigan
  • Location: Longmont, Colorado
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Biography

Kris Jacque is a 2007 graduate of the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Computer Science). Despite having spent four years studying a very technical field that baffles her friends and alarms her family, she still enjoys participating in the arts -- namely drawing and painting, since she can't carry a tune to save her life. Almost everyone who knew her before she went to college supposed she would be a professional artist, herself included. Imagine her surprise when she caught herself genuinely liking the wild mathematical and theoretical aspects of computer science!

She is currently living somewhere in North Boulder with her two cats (Maisy and Betamax) and two rats (Tiamat and Chloe's Eyebrows).

Kris is rumored to have grown up in a pile of puppies, so it is natural that she loves animals. She also likes animated cartoons, indie comic books, ancient and medieval history, Latin, cameras and photography, nice crisp new paper (especially in fancy notebooks), that old book smell, old Soviet stuff, pre-1940s phonographs and other vintage mechanical gadgets, cool muscle cars, Apple computers, movies of all stripes, and really interesting puzzles. Her academic interests lie more toward the theoretical end of computer science, but she still enjoys programming as an exercise in problem-solving.

She also likes video games. She has a Nintendo DS, a Wii, a PS2, and a few of what we now call "vintage" game systems.