Boole
Decker | |
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Flicker Decker | |
Discord | Villiers |
Richard_Villiers | |
Metatype | Human |
Street Cred | 0 |
Notoriety | 0 |
Public Awareness | 0 |
CDP | 0 |
D.O.B. | JUNE 15 2054 |
Age | 31 |
Folder | [1] |
Priority | Metatype - C Attributes - E Magic/Resonance - E Skills - A Resources - A |
#Max IGs/Ascension | 1 |
Character Information
Summary
An academic thrust into the shadows as the result of a traumatic accident
Goals
Create a new life in the shadows of the Seattle sprawl
Background
Joshua was born in 2054 to upper-middle class parents, Michael and Winona Jackson. Joshua did well at Morrish elementary school, and Henry Hudson middle school but really excelled when he moved to Woburn Collegiate Institute for high school. Woburn is a semestered, English-language public secondary school in the Scarborough district of Toronto. Students who have been rated highly by their teachers undergo an individual assessment with the school psychologist (IQ test, typically WISC 5). Based on the results of the individual assessment, those who scored in the top 2 percentiles are offered a place in a gifted class. When Joshua entered the Gifted program in computer science he found his future. He graduated high school in 2072. After considering several universities he settled on the University of Toronto.
The University of Toronto Department of Computer Science offers Specialist programs in Computer Science or Data Science, or a Major or Minor in Computer Science. A Specialist in Computer Science goes beyond the Major, providing a broad and deep foundation to computer science, and exposes you to a broad range of upper-year computer science topics. Students enrolled in the Major or Specialist can choose to complete a Focus in a particular area of computer science, such as: Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, or the Theory of Computation, among others. Joshua chose Theory of Computation.
After completing his bachelor's degree, Joshua moved seamlessly into graduate school. The Department of Computer Science offers a graduate program leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. The programs consist of courses and research, conducted under the supervision of a faculty member. Faculty in the Department of Computer Science are interested in a wide range of subjects related to computing, including programming languages and methodology, software engineering, operating systems, compilers, distributed computation, networks, numerical analysis and scientific computing, financial computation, data structures, algorithm design and analysis, computational complexity, cryptography, combinatorics, graph theory, artificial intelligence, neural networks, knowledge representation, computational linguistics, computer vision, robotics, database systems, graphics, animation, interactive computing, and human-computer interaction. Joshua continued his focus in computational complexity and computational linguistics and dabbled in graph theory & network analysis. He met the love of his life in a PhD workshop on human-computer interaction. Janalyn Prows was in the previous year's cohort of doctoral students. She was attractive, had a wry sense of humor, and most important of all, she was significantly smarter than Joshua. After an engaging conversation over a cup of soykaf devoted to complete likelihood estimation of stochastic point processes Joshua was determined to augment his human-computer interaction with human-human interaction.
Towards the end of his degree program Joshua was faced with a choice. Jan had been offered a job as an assistant professor at the University of Washington. Joshua could travel with her and finish his dissertation as she started publishing. When he was finished, they could decide how to handle a dual career in academia. Alternatively he could stay in Toronto and finish his dissertation while hoping a long distance relationship would work out. Joshua considered the probability that he would EVER encounter anyone close to Jan's quality and poor taste in men and started packing.
Dissertation - Monte Carlo Simulation of Non-Deterministic Turing Machines
Narrative Significant Qualities
Positive
Impenetrable Logic
Instinctive Hack
Ninja Vanish
Perfect Time
Trust Data, Not Lore
Quick Config
Negative
Code of Honor: Children, Innocent Bystanders
Phobia (Uncommon, Mild): Spiders
SINner (National): UCAS
Run History
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Affiliations
Contacts
Contact | Connection | Loyalty | Archetype | Profession | Aspects | Chips |
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Dial-Up | 4 | 2 | Fixer | Matrix-Bound, Like a fish to water, Data Miner, Computer Jackson, Hard Drive Dealer, Briefing, Former Renraku property, Logistics, Involuntary Program Updates | Even |
Organizations
Allies
Enemies
In Character Information
Symbols and Signatures
Matrix Search Table
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6 |
Shadow Community Table
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Assensing Table
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SINs
SIN (UCAS Joshua Jackson), Fake SIN-4 (UCAS Jay Jordan)
Appearance
METATYPE: Human (None) AGE: 30 GENDER: Male HEIGHT: 181 cm WEIGHT: 84 kg HAIR: Red-Blond EYES: Blue SKIN: Pale
Clothing
Vashon Island: Synergist Business Line, Armor Jacket ("RhineGold Jacket")
Matrix Persona
Professor with robe and mortar board