I am Jonathan Holland, at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I am originally from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. I have a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh, a Master of Arts from Princeton University, and a Bachelor in Philosophy from the UHC program at the University of Pittsburgh. I have been at RIT for two and a half years. This is my final semester unless I can score a permanent gig. I have played games my whole life, but I have never really explored the social dimensions of game play on a computer. I appreciate that aspect of games to tell stories, change attitudes, teach subjects, and promote values, however. From a young age, I was trained on the Berkeley LOGO program. I was an accomplished chess player fifteen years ago, but haven't played a single game in over a decade. Nowadays, I play games for focus and meditation, and prefer collaboration to competition. I enjoy making art and music with mathematics. I do some fractal art on the side. I enjoy writing one-liners in the Wolfram Language. I like analog musical synthesis, and play a Korg analog synthesizer. I listen to a lot of music: art rock (e.g., Sonic Youth), punk, free jazz (e.g., late Coltrane, a lot of recent stuff), classical music (basically anything, but I tend to prefer modern "avant-garde" stuff). My favorite composer is Giacinto Scelsi. My favorite classical painters are Bosch, Pieter Bruegel (the Elder), and Canaletto. I believe in the importance of physical wellness. I do powerlifting (225BP/405DL/365BS on good days), olympic weightlifting (225C&J), and daily flexibility exercises. I eat a very strict diet and prepare most of my own food from scratch. My research interest at the moment is the mathematics of space-time. I am under contract for a book on the geometry of Penrose limits and black holes. I also like teaching. I am married. We have a cat.