Matt Browne, M.S.
Matt Browne, M.S. is a senior team leader in the information technology division of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. His areas of expertise include enterprise content management, web technologies, knowledge management, intranet search engines and collaboration software. He earned his M.S. degree in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics from the University of Kansas and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He started his information technology career at Siemens in Munich as a software engineer and project manager developing natural language processing tools with a strong focus on machine translation systems.
Matt is also a part-time writer and has recently published his first
science
fiction novel called The
Future Happens Twice which is based on the
concept
of embryo space colonization. Key elements in the
first
book of his planned trilogy are the detection of Earth-like extrasolar
planets, the advancement of embryo-splitting technology, artificial
wombs and the cryopreservation of human embryos as well as the
construction of sophisticated androids for an interstellar space mission as human
survival is threatened by an impending extinction-level event. The novel will be followed
by
two sequels called Human
Destiny and The
Andromeda Encounter.
Matt’s other scientific interests include astrobiology, particle physics, supervolcanoes, renewable energies, nanotechnology, virtual reality environments, mind uploading, and brain-computer interfaces. In his leisure time Matt enjoys traveling, photography, music and reading.
Listen to him on The Future And You.