A day in the life of... Stuart Cheshire

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