Sunday, 24 February 2008

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Sam's party and bostonites

Last night I went to a little party at Sam's place. It was fun, and

the SDM turnout was better than usual. The attendees included Alex and

his wife Irene, Matti, Marat, Deming, John H., Christian, and Alli

joined us later too. It was definitely nice to socialize with SDMers

without worrying too much about homework and other school issues.

Thanks for hosting us, Sam.

I've added a link to the bostonites ring to my blog, and added myself

to the ring. It's a collection of Boston-based bloggers.

Picture by Juan Job:

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Karim's defense and M$

Yesterday I went to Karim's dissertation defense, which he passed of

course. Congratulations! It seemed like an unusually high amount of

faculty attended, which I think indicates the level of interest in his

work (which is justified).

Then in The Software Business we discussed Microsoft and

standards/platforms battles. The team presenting (Biju from SDM, Tien,

and Dharmesh the founder of HubSpot) did a good job, and the class in

general had a lot of discussion. It was probably the liveliest and

most interesting class we've had yet. Professor Cusumano has a long

relationship with Microsoft including its top guys, and recounted some

of his funny stories about trying to get Bill Gates to laugh at his

jokes. Of course, he also has much valuable insight into the companies


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