I was at Amzn in 2000 when the internet bubble popped. Capital markets dried up & we were burning $1B/yr. Our biggest expense was datacenter -> expensive Sun servers. We spent a year ripping out Sun & replacing with HP/Linux, which formed the foundation for AWS. The backstory:
Something lighthearted and fun- I developed a mascot for my PhD thesis @BIOENGatIL https://t.co/tDRZC6tISI
Thanks @GradCollegeIL for the opportunity to blog about this, and @ProfDipanjanPan for encouraging me to include Fred in my thesis. @AcademicChatter
@matthew_d_green Or when I drop my phone and it goes in landscape mode and scrolls so far away from where I currently was; have to keep scrolling back to my spot when I put it back in portrait
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Meet Naemeh Pourshafie - a Postdoctoral scientist - she studies neurodegenerative disease, identifies the cause of these diseases with the ultimate goal of developing therapies for affected patients. Impressive!
Ft & thx @naemehPourshafi
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Today I successfully defended my PhD thesis .@BIOENGatIL .@GradCollegeIL! Thanks so much to my advisors .@ProfDipanjanPan and Dr. Mandy Esch, my committee members, collaborators, and everyone else who has been a part of this journey!
My SEM image is a semi-finalist in the 2020 Graduate Image of Research Competition! People's Choice voting is open- check out the images and vote for your top 3 choices: https://t.co/xxhzQvteKc
.@BIOENGatIL .@uofigrainger .@BeckmanInst .@TiMeUIUC
Re: NYC blocking Zoom
I like Matthew a lot, but I don't feel this is a "dumb overreaction."
As a security admin overseeing 40K+ students and participating in communities serving over 1.5M students, I would love to shed some light on the difficulties Zoom has created for us.