Rob Pike's Excellent Adventure

Frisky070802 writes "The Newark Star-Ledger has an article about Rob Pike's move from Bell Labs to Google. The article has some interesting points, such as how Pike took a "huge pay cut" to go there just to work on cool things. And in a nostalgia trip for those others of us who've walked the halls of Bell Labs, the article compares earlier days at Bell Labs to the heady days at Google (Claude Shannon on a unicycle, and the famous Penn & Teller trick on Arno Penzias, then the head of Bell Labs research). Most of all are the differences in real-world impact: 'But products trickled slowly, if ever, from [Bell Labs]. They blast from Google at hyperspeed.'" (Painless demographic-only jump-through screen to read it.)

Comments

Academic research making a difference

[Ithika]

I wonder when the next big thing in computer science is going to come along. (Random musings...)

Re:I know something we'd all love to PIKE

[Anonymous Coward]

she's so hot

Re:Captain Pike!

[nzlemming]

So I've finally seen something on /. that made me go "ewww"

I mean, really, "tapioca"?

Eeeewwwwww!