Ian Fette graduated from the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan in 2004 with a Bachelors of Science in Engineering degree in Computer Science. After graduating, Ian went to work full time for the United States Government until August 2005. In the fall of 2005, Ian entered a Ph.D. program in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. The Ph.D. program is called “Computation, Organizations and Society“, and focuses not only on the traditional aspects of computer science, but its applications and constraints in society and real-world usage.