Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.