Peter Raulerson:  

I live near Seattle and on the electronic frontier, trying to lasso the forces of change. High School and College I learned to program computers between the 10th and 11th grades at Bishop Kenny, when I was part of a National Science Foundation program that parked high school students in different research labs at the University of Florida for the summer of 1967. I guess I was a geek or a nerd back then, even if those words didn't have a computer connotation at that time. I skipped my senior year at BK and went to Harvard where I majored in math and worked as a programmer to pay my way thru school. One of my professors hired me on a Defense Dept research contract to do some of the programming for the ARPANET, which evolved to become the Internet with millions of computer on it today. But back then, there were only 6 computers on it. A professor at Harvard Business School hired me to help develop data analysis and management simulation software. By the time I graduated from Harvard in 1972, I had taken almost all of the computer science courses at Harvard and MIT, and done about 10,000 hours of programming. I guess I have always been a workaholic. Professional After graduating, I joined Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in their headquarters outside Boston. Over the next 10 years DEC relocated us first to Phoenix, AZ, and then to Menlo Park, CA (near San Francisco), and finally to Seattle. I got a lot of experience in just about every niche of the information technology industry from chips to disks to software to networks to professional services. Along the way I switched from technical work to sales and then management. In the '80s, I switched companies a couple of times as new technologies and companies changed the high tech industry. I founded, built and sold a network software company. Since 1990 I've bee...Expand for more