Archive for February, 2005

Jerry’s Kids

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

Last week, Jerry Cain, Stanford CS lecturer extraordinaire and technical editor of Professional C++, invited me to have dinner with his group of undergraduate advisees. The stated reason was to faciliate discussions between the young ‘uns and experienced professionals such as myself. However, I think the projected excess of food was part of it as [...]

Belated Coffee with Dave

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

Some time during my Junior year at Stanford, I got an email out of the blue from Dave Weekly. I had never actually met Dave, but he pointed out that we seemed to know the same people (the hip CS crowd, if I do say so myself)and have similar interests (I don’t remember exactly [...]