Momentum
I first saw a 386 computer in my senior year of high school. It had wordstar, and after a couple of minutes spent writing random stuff, we usually grew restless. When I conducted a computer literacy program for housewives in a rural Indian village years later, I saw the same kind of restlessness in them; we just didn't have the right applications for them to work on and enjoy and be productive. We need to build them!
I really got to use a computer in the cluster at college, and word spread that I was using half the bandwidth the college had so my tuition should go up ;-).
I work with two very talented but different people. Andy Lippman did pioneering work in High Definition Television. David Reed seems to know everything about whatever I ask him, and he co-designed the end-to-end principle on which the Internet is based.
My current work focuses on technology that connects highly mobile people to each other anywhere, anytime, without any infrastructure or external mediation. I am thinking of networks of people that start small, grow very large very fast, and have major social impact. FluidVoice is one such system that lets people talk to each other even if they are not within range, by cooperating with others in between. When a network gets fluid, interesting things happen.
My life will be spent using the smartness of engineering to impact lives. A good device is an adorable device. It doesn't intrude, it assists. It is beautiful, and it makes us feel better about the human intellect, about curiousity, and about invention.
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I first saw a 386 computer in my senior year of high school. It had wordstar, and after a couple of minutes spent writing random stuff, we usually grew restless. When I conducted a computer literacy program for housewives in a rural Indian village years later, I saw the same kind of restlessness in them; we just didn't have the right applications for them to work on and enjoy and be productive. We need to build them!
I really got to use a computer in the cluster at college, and word spread that I was using half the bandwidth the college had so my tuition should go up ;-).
I work with two very talented but different people. Andy Lippman did pioneering work in High Definition Television. David Reed seems to know everything about whatever I ask him, and he co-designed the end-to-end principle on which the Internet is based.
My current work focuses on technology that connects highly mobile people to each other anywhere, anytime, without any infrastructure or external mediation. I am thinking of networks of people that start small, grow very large very fast, and have major social impact. FluidVoice is one such system that lets people talk to each other even if they are not within range, by cooperating with others in between. When a network gets fluid, interesting things happen.
My life will be spent using the smartness of engineering to impact lives. A good device is an adorable device. It doesn't intrude, it assists. It is beautiful, and it makes us feel better about the human intellect, about curiousity, and about invention.
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