From the Associate Editor

TL;DR: The author reminisces about their experience learning and working with computers and language learning technology, highlighting the influence of several individuals and the impact on their career path.

Abstract: It only seems such a short while ago that I came to the United States foranexchangevisit,andthatihadtostartwritingmypapersonone of these little funny-looking Macintosh boxes. When I discovered thatthese machines can also be used to (veeerrrysloooowly) surf the web and to develop interactive programs for language learning I was hooked. Toto, I was not in Germany anymore... It was Marie Sheppard who gave me my first job as a Language Liaison for the Anderson Language and Technology Center at CU Boulder, and Brian Lewis who recruited me for some LIBRA authoringwhen he procured a grant and started paying me for what I loved to do anyway: tinker with computers. I owe both of them big thanks for setting me on a new career path, and I wish they were still around to read these lines. There are other people who helped along the way: Patty Schindler, Ashley Godeaux, Kuan-Yi Rose Chang, Nelson de Jesus and the Ohio5 gang, the people at the CET in Middlebury, to name just a few. They all influenced me one way or another and spurred me on.