My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits. — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun. — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco. — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake. — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
