Alexander (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} raistlinsb) wrote,@ 2007-11-27 04:54:00 |
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uhhhh wow
So some of you may have heard that my job satisfaction is way above normal (especially considering that I'm not doing anything spectacularly interesting), and I've probably explained it by saying that it's nice to work with (and for) people that I can actually respect for their intelligence.
Anyway, I was doing some idle googling, and apparently my boss's boss, the head of software development for this company, the guy who buys me (and the rest of the office) lunch every tuesday, Ira Goldstein, is somewhat famous.
I don't mean famous in the normal sense, but rather in the geek sense...Heard of the MIT AI lab? Sussman, Minsky, Stallman etc. all were there....as was he. Heard of LOGO? yeah, he helped design and develop that. Heard of Xerox PARC? He was there too. The coordinating committee for the WWW? He was on it. I'd have more references, but the ACM's site for pulling up citations is broken.
No wonder when I hear him talk, I'm thinking "wow, that's a great idea!" or "wow, that makes so much more sense now" instead of "wow, when will he shut up so I can get some real work done?"
It's amazingly rare for me to meet someone who I think is just absolutely more intelligent than I am, and even rarer for me to hold that opinion after working with them for any extended period of time; but I can honestly say, I really do feel like I'm actually working under a real architect, a master of the art, here.
So some of you may have heard that my job satisfaction is way above normal (especially considering that I'm not doing anything spectacularly interesting), and I've probably explained it by saying that it's nice to work with (and for) people that I can actually respect for their intelligence.
Anyway, I was doing some idle googling, and apparently my boss's boss, the head of software development for this company, the guy who buys me (and the rest of the office) lunch every tuesday, Ira Goldstein, is somewhat famous.
I don't mean famous in the normal sense, but rather in the geek sense...Heard of the MIT AI lab? Sussman, Minsky, Stallman etc. all were there....as was he. Heard of LOGO? yeah, he helped design and develop that. Heard of Xerox PARC? He was there too. The coordinating committee for the WWW? He was on it. I'd have more references, but the ACM's site for pulling up citations is broken.
No wonder when I hear him talk, I'm thinking "wow, that's a great idea!" or "wow, that makes so much more sense now" instead of "wow, when will he shut up so I can get some real work done?"
It's amazingly rare for me to meet someone who I think is just absolutely more intelligent than I am, and even rarer for me to hold that opinion after working with them for any extended period of time; but I can honestly say, I really do feel like I'm actually working under a real architect, a master of the art, here.
