Introduction

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My name is Ben Engbers, I was born in 1954 and studied biology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
I work for the Dutch department of Economic Affairs in the field of Business Applications.

My hobby's are music, reading (fantasy and philosophy) and computing.
Biologists have a reputation that they are often creative in finding solutions. I have often seen that they their knowledge in one field helps them to find a solution for a problem in another totally different field.
Certainly when tackling a new computing-problem, one also often has to be creative. Sometimes you need to develop a new algorithm, you have to search for appropriate tools. To be brief, you have to puzzle a lot. And since I like to puzzle...