Len Jacobson:
CLASS OF 1960
Westmoor High SchoolClass of 1960
Daly city, CA
University of CaliforniaClass of 1964
Berkeley, CA
Colma Junior High SchoolClass of 1956
Colma, CA
Lawton Elementary SchoolClass of 1954
San francisco, CA
Len's Story
Life
I went to UC Berkeley, and came out with a bachelor's degree in Math, a master's degree in Statistics, and a wonderful wife name Jane. We were married in June of 1964, the day after graduation.
About a year later, we moved to Israel and lived on a kibbutz for a short time. In 1966, I went back to UC and studied Operations Research, coming out in 1969 with a PhD. By that time, we had our first son, Danny. We moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where I worked for Mathematica, a research and consulting firm. Our second son, David, was born in Princeton. Over the next seventeen years, I worked for that company (and an offshoot of it) in California, in Paris, and in Israel. Most of the work was computer software related, something I got hooked on at Berkeley. We moved back to the States from Israel in 1986, and have been in Saratoga, CA, ev...Expand for more
er since.
In 1992, I did something that I had talked about for a long time -- I went back to school part time to study Computer Science, something I had been working in for about 30 years by then. Just to give myself a goal, I decided to go for a masters. Three years later, I was lucky enough to be able to go back full time and complete the program. It went without saying that I was older than every other student; but I was also older than every professor I had, too! A wonderful experience!!
Jane, my wife, and I are still both working full time. I am working for a small "eBusiness Intelligence" firm, Sagent Technology, in the middle of Silicon Valley. I enjoy it immensely -- just wish they would let me touch some code.
But I must be honest -- we look forward to retirement. In fact, I have been mentally ready for it for some time now.
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