Robert Leslie Fisher

Robert Leslie Fisher was educated in New York City where he attended Stuyvesant High School, a special school for science-oriented students, and City College of New York from which he graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Sociology and the Ward Medal in Sociology. He also attended Columbia University where he received the M. Phil.in sociology and has a certificate in Evaluation Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Mr. Fisher had a varied career in New York State government as a criminal justice planner, research contracts officer, and program evaluator. He is now an author and director of a nonprofit management consulting organization in the Capital District of New York. Fisher is the author of four previous nonfiction books about the gender gap in science-- the latest being Invisible Student Scientists (2013), as well as two chapters coauthored with Joel L. Fisher. in the Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization (2014) ed. by J. Wang and published by IGI Global.

Publications

Blockchain Technology, Vanilla Production, and Fighting Global Warming
Blockchain Technology, Vanilla Production, and Fighting Global Warming
Robert Leslie Fisher. © 2023. 10 pages.
While most nations concur with the United Nations prediction that we face mass extinctions, flooding, and other catastrophic damage unless we reduce global warming by 1.5 degrees...
Increasing Education's Return Rate for Public Interest Professionals
Increasing Education's Return Rate for Public Interest Professionals
Robert Leslie Fisher. © 2021. 15 pages.
The author argues that the student loan debt crisis is, in fact, a shortage of public interest professionals. Solving this problem requires replacing the Becker Human Capital...
Computer-Assisted Indian Matrimonial Services
Computer-Assisted Indian Matrimonial Services
Robert Leslie Fisher. © 2019. 11 pages.
The focus of the chapter is on the way the computer has been harnessed to assist both an ancient custom of arranged marriage and its practitioners (known as matchmakers) rather...
Computer-Assisted Indian Matrimonial Services
Computer-Assisted Indian Matrimonial Services
Robert Leslie Fisher. © 2018. 10 pages.
The focus of the present paper is on the way the computer has been harnessed to assist both an ancient custom of arranged marriage and its practitioners (known as matchmakers)...