A day in the life of... Stuart Cheshire

Stuart Cheshire
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What I work on: All aspects of how computers communicate with each other, and how computers and humans communicate with each other (See "Wizard without Portfolio"). How I arrived at my present job: In the 1990s, while at Stanford, I wrote the multi-player network shareware game Bolo, which was a big hit at places like Apple. I was also vocal, even back then, about the abysmal state of ease-of-use for computer networking. When the good people at Apple heard in 1997 that I was close to finishing my PhD, they called me up and asked if I'd like to go and work there to pursue my goal of networking ease-of-use. I think the lesson from that is that if you do good stuff
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我从事的工作:计算机如何相互通信的所有方面,以及计算机和人类如何相互通信(参见“Wizard without Portfolio”)。如何获得现在的工作:20世纪90年代,当我还在斯坦福大学时,我编写了多人网络共享软件游戏《Bolo》,这款游戏在苹果等公司大受欢迎。即使在当时,我也曾直言不讳地说过,计算机网络的易用性糟糕透顶。1997年,当苹果公司的优秀人士听说我即将完成博士学位时,他们打电话给我,问我是否愿意去那里工作,以实现我的目标,即使网络易于使用。我认为从中得到的教训是,如果你做了好事
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