I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

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

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

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.

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