I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

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I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

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

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

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

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After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

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The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

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

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Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

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There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

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