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    Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology
    Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology
    Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology
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    Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology

    By John Elder and Robin MacArthur

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreen Writers Press
    Release dateOct 3, 2014
    ISBN9780989983839
    Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology
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    John Elder

    Dr. John Elder heads the United States’ leading data mining consulting team, with offices in Charlottesville, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Baltimore, Maryland (www.datamininglab.com). Founded in 1995, Elder Research, Inc. focuses on investment, commercial, and security applications of advanced analytics, including text mining, image recognition, process optimization, cross-selling, biometrics, drug efficacy, credit scoring, market sector timing, and fraud detection. John obtained a B.S. and an M.E.E. in electrical engineering from Rice University and a Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Virginia, where he’s an adjunct professor teaching Optimization or Data Mining. Prior to 16 years at ERI, he spent five years in aerospace defense consulting, four years heading research at an investment management firm, and two years in Rice's Computational & Applied Mathematics Department.

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