Jake Errington
MSc Computer Science
BLUE Resident Fellow
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Summer
2018
Creating a video game to educate high schoolers on New France's early history
BLUE Resident Fellow
Summer
2018
Background
Jake is a recent computer science & mathematics grad and beginning graduate student at McGill's computational logic lab. His research focuses on program synthesis: how can software generate programs conforming to given specifications? Together with Eric Mayhew, their BLUE project is to create a video game to teach highschoolers about the early history of New France.Talk to Jake about: programming languages, Linux systems use and administration, free and open-source software / data privacy.