• Received a bachelor’s from MIT in 1983 in Mathematics and spent the summer after my senior year working at Thinking Machines where I collaborated on the analysis of the routing network with Richard Feynman. This was also where I first met Stephen Wolfram.
  Phd from Princeton in Mathematics in 1988 with a dissertation under the supervision of John Milnor entitled “Formal Language Characterizations of Cellular Automata Limit Sets”. Unsurprisingly the topic was inspired by Stephen Wolfram, a close friend and mentor. Alpha tested Mathematica 0.9!
• Was a post-doc in Jim Yorke’s Chaos Group at the University of Maryland, College Park where I wrote papers both on chaos theory and on further applications of cellular automata. Notably I showed that the topological entropy of a cellular automaton rule was uncomputable.
• Left academe for a position as a research mathematician at IteratedSystems in Atlanta, working with Michael Barnsley, with whom I co-authored a book on Fractal Image Compression. Later, I primarily focused on video compression and served on the MPEG, JPEG and ITU committees.
• Worked at Google/YouTube for about ten years having moved to CA. Worked on several teams and in the last iteration for our Trust and Safety team.
• Moved to the east coast where things began for my wife and me, and am now working for iManage, a document management software company based in Chicago.
• For the past two summers, I have been a mentor for the Wolfram Summer Research Program for high school students.

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