Talk:Robert Bradbury

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An individual covered by or significantly related to this article, Robert Bradbury, has edited Wikipedia as RobertBradbury (talk · contribs)

[edit] Inaccurate

Actually, the page as it currently exists is inaccurate. I did not graduate from Harvard though I did receive passing marks in all of the senior level applied mathematics courses. And similarly, I did not graduate from the University of Washington, but was thrown out by the Biochemistry Department (because I had too many credits while pursuing a dual biochemistry and microbiology degree -- blame academic management ineptitude and my dislike of dealing with bureaucracies unless I really need them).

However, points of interest might be

• that I graduated in my High School class ranked 3 out of 423;
• that in addition to Harvard I was accepted at MIT, Dartmouth and Cornell;
• that with Forrest Howard, while at Commercial Union Leasing Corporation, we produced a functional PDP-10 simulator which would run the Bliss-11 compiler (which normally only ran on a PDP-10) on a PDP-11/70 (a nontrivial feat if you understand the machines);
• That for several years (in the late 1970's and earl 1980's) all of the material published in Time Magazine depended upon an underspeced computer (a PDP 11/34) that I had to keep running 24/7;
• that while working at Yourdon I was the primary individual responsible for the IBM Series/1 C Compiler;
• that I was the primary individual responsible for the Oracle IBM System 370 C compiler (which was necessary for Oracle's entire product line on IBM mainframes);
• that I was the 7th programmer hired by Oracle Corporation and played a critical role in its success as the Unix Product Development Manager which entailed the production of all of its products under Unix from 1983-1987;
• that I was one of the first entrepreneurs to fund research into aging and longevity, and clearly the first to do so in Russia (through Aeiveos Corporation circa 1992-1994);
• that I was the founder and president of Aeiveos Sciences Group, which from 1995-1997 was the one of the top aging research companies (ultimately funded to the level of $8 million, though part of that was returned to investors when the development strategy was deemed unworkable).

The primary Matrioshka Brain ideas and research were produced during a period from ~1997-2001 and resulted from a very simple question: "How long can one really live?". Those ideas continue to evolve. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobertBradbury (talk • contribs) 16:49, 2 November 2007 (UTC)