She is a member of the principal professional staff at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
[2] She continued her education at the University of California, Irvine, earning a second master's degree and a Ph.D. in information and computer science[1] Her 2000 doctoral dissertation, An Adaptive, Distributed Algorithm for Interest Management, was jointly supervised by Lubomir Bic and Michael Dillencourt,[3] and included some of her work on data distribution in the High Level Architecture.
[1] Morse worked for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where she was a technical fellow, chief federation engineer, and assistant vice president of technology.
They contribute to anthologies and multi-author novels, some of which Morse edits and for which Drake does cover design and art.
Morse writes a cooking blog of her personally-developed recipes, the title of which derives from a character in Drake & McTrowell[12].