While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft.
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.
My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
I'm really interested in the current tech world because of my brother Michael. Since we were little kids, in the 1970s, he was dealing with the first computers. He works for the government.
I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.
I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.
I studied at Carnegie Mellon. I went there with a bunch of really, really talented kids.
At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.