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* the Prime Directive: to not interfere in the development of less technologically advanced civilizations. This had an incredible appeal to me; <u>ethical humans, not robots, dominated this future, and I took Roddenberry's dream as part of my own</u>. | * the Prime Directive: to not interfere in the development of less technologically advanced civilizations. This had an incredible appeal to me; <u>ethical humans, not robots, dominated this future, and I took Roddenberry's dream as part of my own</u>. | ||
* I excelled in mathematics in high school, and when I went to the University of Michigan as an undergraduate engineering student I took the advanced curriculum of the mathematics majors. Solving math problems was an exciting challenge, but when I discovered computers I found something much more interesting: a machine into which you could put a program that attempted to solve a problem, after which the machine quickly checked the solution. <u>The computer had a clear notion of correct and incorrect, true and false. Were my ideas correct? The machine could tell me. This was very seductive</u>. | * I excelled in mathematics in high school, and when I went to the University of Michigan as an undergraduate engineering student I took the advanced curriculum of the mathematics majors. Solving math problems was an exciting challenge, but when I discovered computers I found something much more interesting: a machine into which you could put a program that attempted to solve a problem, after which the machine quickly checked the solution. <u>The computer had a clear notion of correct and incorrect, true and false. Were my ideas correct? The machine could tell me. This was very seductive</u>. | ||
* I was lucky enough to get a job programming early supercomputers and discovered the amazing power of large machines to numerically simulate advanced designs. When I went to graduate school at UC Berkeley in the mid-1970s, <u>I started staying up late, often all night | * I was lucky enough to get a job programming early supercomputers and discovered the amazing power of large machines to numerically simulate advanced designs. When I went to graduate school at UC Berkeley in the mid-1970s, <u>I started staying up late, often all night, inventing new worlds inside the machines</u>. Solving problems. <strong>Writing the code that argued so strongly to be written</strong>. | ||
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年表
| 1954.11.8 | ミシガン州デトロイトで生まれる |
| 1971 (17) | ミシガン大学に入学 |
| 1974 (20) | カリフォルニア大学バークレー校 がUNIXを導入 |
| 1975 (21) | 電気工学の理学士号を取得。バークレーの大学院に入学 徹夜もしながらOSを開発、コードを書きまくる生活 |
| 1979 (25) | 電気工学/コンピュータサイエンスの修士号を取得 |
| 1982 (28) | 博士課程。サン・マイクロシステムズの創業メンバーに |
| 1985 (31) | サンで SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) を開発 |
| 1986 (32) | BSD開発に対して ACMグレース・ホッパー賞 受賞 |
| 1988 (34) | サンで会長よりも上のポジションとして公表 |
| 1995 (41) | サンよって Java が公開 |
| 1997 (43) | クリントン政権にて大統領直属情報技術諮問委員会共同委員長 |
| 1999 (45) | ベンチャーキャピタル HighBAR Ventures 創業 |
| 2000.4 (46) | Wiredに寄稿『Why The Future Doesn't Need Us』 |
| 2003.9 (49) | サン・マイクロシステムズ退社 |
| 2005.1 (49) | KPCB のパートナーに就任 |
参考になる発言
- Despite my current job title of Chief Scientist at Sun Microsystems, I am more a computer architect than a scientist.
- Much of my work over the past 25 years has been on computer networking.
- My life has been driven by a deep need to ask questions and find answers. When I was 3, I was already reading, so my father took me to the elementary school, where I sat on the principal's lap and read him a story. I started school early, later skipped a grade, and escaped into books—I was incredibly motivated to learn. I asked lots of questions, often driving adults to distraction.
- the Prime Directive: to not interfere in the development of less technologically advanced civilizations. This had an incredible appeal to me; ethical humans, not robots, dominated this future, and I took Roddenberry's dream as part of my own.
- I excelled in mathematics in high school, and when I went to the University of Michigan as an undergraduate engineering student I took the advanced curriculum of the mathematics majors. Solving math problems was an exciting challenge, but when I discovered computers I found something much more interesting: a machine into which you could put a program that attempted to solve a problem, after which the machine quickly checked the solution. The computer had a clear notion of correct and incorrect, true and false. Were my ideas correct? The machine could tell me. This was very seductive.
- I was lucky enough to get a job programming early supercomputers and discovered the amazing power of large machines to numerically simulate advanced designs. When I went to graduate school at UC Berkeley in the mid-1970s, I started staying up late, often all night, inventing new worlds inside the machines. Solving problems. Writing the code that argued so strongly to be written.