[Info-vax] Not all ex-Digits are at Microsoft !

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 24-01-2010 01:17, JF Mezei wrote:
> JF Mezei wrote:
>> http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html
>
> Another one:
>
> Jeff Dean
> Google Fellow
>
> Jeff joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Fellow working in
> the Systems Infrastructure Group. Jeff has designed and implemented
> large portions of the company's advertising, crawling, indexing and
> query serving systems, along with various pieces of the distributed
> computing infrastructure that sits underneath most of Google's products.
> At various times, Jeff has also worked on improving search quality,
> statistical machine translation, and various internal software
> development tools, and he has had significant involvement in the
> engineering hiring process.
>
> Prior to joining Google, Jeff was at DEC/Compaq's Western Research
> Laboratory, where he worked on profiling tools, microprocessor
> architecture, and information retrieval. Earlier, he worked at the World
> Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS, developing software for
> statistical modeling and forecasting of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
>
> Jeff is an author of more than 20 publications and a co-inventor on more
> than 25 patents. He earned a B.S. in computer science and economics
> (summa cum laude) from the University of Minnesota and received a Ph.D.
> and a M.S. in computer science from the University of Washington. In
> 2009, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which
> recognized his work on "the science and engineering of large-scale
> distributed computer systems."
>
> And another one:
>
> 	Sanjay Ghemawat
> Google Fellow
>
> Sanjay works on the distributed computing infrastructure that is used by
> most Google products. He has led the design and implementation of
> various storage systems (GFS, Bigtable), a batch processing system
> (MapReduce), networking libraries, data representation languages, memory
> management systems, and various performance measurement tools.
>
> Previously, Sanjay was a researcher at DEC's Systems Research Center,
> where he worked on performance measurement tools, Java virtual machines,
> and Java compilers.
>
> Sanjay earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell as well as a Ph.D. and
> M.S. from MIT, all in computer science. He is a member of the National
> Academy of Engineering.

DEC must have had tens of thousands of engineers during its existance.

My guess is that most larger companies have some ex-DEC'es around.

Arne