R. James Doyle (aka Richard J. Doyle) held technical and managerial roles in Information and Data Science at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) over a career arc spanning forty years. He worked primarily at the exciting interface of space exploration and computer science, with a focus on autonomous space systems. He remains an active technical consultant.

Richard holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science specializing in Artificial Intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a member of a JPL team that consulted on the Babylon 5 sci-fi TV Series in the 1990s. He had the pleasure of visiting Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka, in the year 2001.

He wrote the story Disentanglement in the recently published speculative fiction anthology INNER SPACE & OUTER THOUGHTS by Caltech and JPL authors.

His current writing projects include the space adventure RAISING THE ROOF, within the OUT OF TIME Young Adult series created by David Brin, featuring hopeful tales about the future.

Also, the speculative thriller THE FIFTH WALL, about the adventures of a magician who experiences inexplicable phenomena in his own act.

And ONE MILLION TIMES, a book of stories and TV series concept exploring rumors of elusive time travelers in our era, in collaboration with independent filmmaker Rogelio Fojo.

Outside of professional and creative life, Richard enjoys amateur astronomy, pondering quantum physics, and craft beer.

See Richard’s responses to some unexpected questions.