Linda Weiser Friedman is Professor of Statistics and Computer Information Systems at the Baruch College Zicklin School of Business and the Graduate Center, where she is on the Doctoral Faculty of the CUNY Ph.D. Programs in Business and Computer Science. She has served as Department Chair, on the Baruch Faculty Senate, on the College P and B, and on her department Executive Committee, among others. She is the author of many scholarly articles and the books, Comparative Programming Languages (Prentice Hall) and The Simulation Metamodel (Kluwer) as well as fiction and poetry.