  Rich, finding he was interested in research and teaching, moved  to Seattle with Joanna to pursue a Ph.D. from the <a href="http://www.washington.edu">University of Washington</a>.  His Ph.D. <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/segal/research.html"> research</a> in <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/ai/www/ai.html">artificial intelligence</a> would investigate such topics as <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/softbots">software agents</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/segal/brute.html">machine learning</a> and <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/segal/brute.html">data mining</a>.  <p>
