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Joining Industry from Academia 25 Sep 2012 | 09:54 am
Several dear friends of mine have recently left graduate school for industry jobs, only to be disillusioned. I have worked for a long time but still love and even long for academic ideals. I think we...
Operational Excellence 17 Sep 2012 | 12:41 am
Although I’ve been deeply engaged in building software for the last twenty years, I’ve only seriously operated software (among them Minus.com) for the last three years. The creative integration of eng...
34th Street Subway Station. Manhattan, NY. The 34th Street... 1 May 2012 | 04:00 pm
34th Street Subway Station. Manhattan, NY. The 34th Street Station is home-base station for me in NYC. Right outside the station are Korea town, the enormous block-wide Macy’s, and most important of ...
Integrity, Life, and Art 19 Dec 2011 | 02:07 pm
The meaning of integrity. I have used the word integrity imprecisely. I have used it to refer to vague notions of idealism; uncompromising ideals; determination; rigor; and seriousness. On reflection,...
On the Edge. Manhattan Subway, NY. This scene in one of... 19 Sep 2011 | 04:00 pm
On the Edge. Manhattan Subway, NY. This scene in one of NYC’s subways struck me as very cinematic…the woman standing on the edge, the pensive guy.
The US Post Office on 6th Avenue and W 32nd Street. Manhattan... 18 Sep 2011 | 04:00 pm
The US Post Office on 6th Avenue and W 32nd Street. Manhattan is beautiful. What kind of city has a post office that looks like this? I pass by this building everyday on my way to work.
The Lyrical and the Gritty 17 Aug 2010 | 04:00 pm
Anna Swir, who was the only daughter of a poor painter in Poland, writes: For the last time I wash the shirt of my father who died. The shirt smells of sweat. I remember that sweat from my childho...
Fault Tolerant Transactional Replication 1 May 2006 | 04:00 pm
This paper, which I wrote with three dear and very clever friends and colleagues in 2006 when I lived in Boston, is a concise summary of an elegant approach (which we implemented on the JVM) for conve...
Adagio in A Minor for Piano and Violin, Opus 9. Parts in pdf... 1 Aug 2005 | 04:00 pm
Adagio in A Minor for Piano and Violin, Opus 9. Parts in pdf format · Full Score · Violin As of August 2005, I consider this my finest composition in terms of emotional intensity and directness of e...
Florence, Italy. I went to Italy in June of 2005 by myself for... 1 Jul 2005 | 04:00 pm
Florence, Italy. I went to Italy in June of 2005 by myself for a week. I visited Florence and Rome. This picture was taken in an alley by the Duomo in Florence.
