Chips, efficient and fast

Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 12:00 in Mathematics & Economics

When in graduate school at Stanford University in the 1990s, Gu-Yeon Wei shared a trailer office near a little kitchen where two other students worked. When they were on the network, he said, everyone’s computer slowed. That little kitchen office was where Yahoo! came from, along with its dotcom-era millionaires. “I had those same dreams. Why not?” said Wei, who is Harvard’s newest tenured professor of electrical engineering. In 2000, he joined an Oregon start-up just after finishing his Ph.D. coursework. But first he secured a teaching job, and his prospective university employer agreed to wait for him. After all, industry experience is valuable for engineers who design, build, and fix things. “My boss at the time promised to send me to Harvard a millionaire,” said Wei, but a few market corrections soon altered that picture. “I felt very fortunate I had this other job on the table.” “This other job,” over seven years, made...

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