Patrick Miller:  

Life After being too much of a grind in High School (voted class brain -- is that geeky or what!), I hit college and burned out totally. I spent 4 years in the Air Force in Nebraska (too far from the beach :-) writing ground system software for weather satellites during the day and going to school at night. I graduated and, to stave off the ravages of real work, decided to head off to graduate school at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. I finished my Master's in Computer Science in a year and decided to stave ravages of real work and go back to school. I spent the next 5 years completing my Ph.D in Computer Science at UC Davis and got a (sorta) real job at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory doing research in high performance parallel computer languages. Meanwhile, to avoid the ravages of real work (I sense a theme here), I went BACK to school and received a teaching credential in Mathematics (I was a California Honored Teacher of the year in 1995 or so). I haven't been teaching high school, but I had been teaching part time at UC Davis and Cal State Hayward and the University of San Francisco as a hobby. I'm now also a part-time professor at Stanford University! My old "day" job was as a computer scientist at Lawrence Li...Expand for more