Cheinan Marks is a senior software developer, living in Berlin, where he starting a non-profit to research bioinformatics and bio-computation, specializing in genetics. He got his start in the TUTOR language on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois. Having gotten his doctorate in chemical engineering, he enjoys developing new ideas in software, particularly scientific ideas, and turning them into practical, real-world products.  Past projects include Quantum Mechanics, Natural Language Programming, and Image Manipulation.