The photo of me in the right sidebar is renewed from time to time. The current photo was taken in 2009 in Paris after the Traveling Geeks trip to London.
The photos below are a reverse-chronological record of some high points during the time I’ve been doing my thing on this particular planet. It’s odd for me to put together so many photos of myself, but I find it interesting how things have developed over time and there are a couple of lessons that might be of interest to both young and old. First, I got a very broad grounding in science when I was young. I majored in mathematics as an undergraduate college student, which was a lot of work for me as well as discouraging for at least some of my professors – I was just not gifted in that area. But what a foundation that was for computer science (my PhD), computer graphics, cryptography, research methods and many other things that I’ve done since then! So my first lesson was that having rigorous training in a basic tool of science was invaluable! Second, being skilled and moderately-talented in music, photography and other arts, even though none of those was my primary profession, has been of inestimable value in terms of being able to “explain science” to people. This “explanatory” thread continues to be of fundamental importance to me and those I interact with.
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| 2012: McCabe Lake, Yosemite National Park |
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| 2011: On Echo Peaks, Yosemite |
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| 2010: The recording studio |
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| 2008: Biking in the mountains at Lake Tahoe CA |
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| 2006: On the way to Triple Divide @ Yosemite |
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| 2006: Summer @ Squaw Valley CA |
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2005: “Now exactly how many power cords did you say
you could run from a single circuit here in India?” |
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| 2005: Firstlife/Secondlife – making an avatar |
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| 2005: A huge ski season @ Squaw Valley CA |
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| 2005: First trip to India |
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| 2004 |
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| 2003: Going completely digital – I stop shooting film altogether |
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| 2000: Not just Y2K, but a big “Leap” |
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| 1998: Knowledge Universe |
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| 1997:Electronic Direct // the Internet ramps up // Deluxe Corp. |
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| 1994: T/Maker forms World’s Easiest / Electronic Direct |
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| 1992 |
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| 1990 |
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| 1987: DesignWare morphs to Britannica Software |
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| 1985: DesignWare becomes part of Peachtree Software |
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| 1984: Wasn’t like 1984 |
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| 1982: DesignWare goes big-time into edutainment |
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| 1976: First year in San Francisco |
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| 1975 |
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1974: Northwestern University “Computers and Teaching” project,
LINGO, Hypertutor, Multitutor computer-based instructional systems,
Research on computer conferencing and communications,
Delphi method |
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| 1970 |
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| 1969 |
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| 1968 |
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| 1967 |
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| 1962 |
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| 1959 |
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| 1957: Geek time begins. Wearing glasses meant I could see the blackboard in class now, but made it tough to play baseball. |
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| 1955 |
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| 1952 |
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| 1951 |
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| 1949 |
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| 1947 |
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| 1946: You figure it out. It’s all new to me. |
I hope you’ll enjoy this mix of topics stemming from my ongoing experiences in the world of online communication. Oh, and sometimes the inspiration comes from face-to-face communications too. Many were sparked by my work as Chief Technology Officer of The Dalai Lama Foundation from 2003 through 2010. See also the Foundation’s Study Circles site, where we keep an ongoing conversation going about ethics in the world.
