Back to [[conference:committee:2015-speakers]]\\ \\ **Bio**: \\ Frances Buontempo has a BA in Maths + Philosophy, an MSc in Pure Maths and a PhD technically in Chemical Engineering, but mainly programming and learning about AI and data mining. She has been a programmer for over 15 years professionally, and learnt to program by reading the manual for her Dad's BBC model B machine. She is currently ACCU's Overload editor, is married to ACCU's CVu editor, has recently taken up weighing technical books and decided they are usually too heavy. She has previously programmed her way out of a paper bag. \\ \\ Homepage: \\ Location: UK\\ \\ **Email**: frances.buontempo@gmail.com\\ \\ [[2015:How to diffuse your way out of a paper bag]]\\