Kate Compton is a long-time Procedural Content Generation (PCG) practitioner.  She wrote the first paper on procedural platformer levels, generated the planets for Spore, and wrote the latest SimCity fire system.  She is now a PhD candidate at UC Santa Cruz developing artificial intelligence to augment human creativity with generative art.  She likes laser cutting, 3D printing, artbots, twitterbots, and baking.