Tuesday, November 24, 2009

dollar auction

I tried to run a dollar auction at dinner yesterday. At first the kids (13-year-olds) wouldn't bite. Finally they started bidding. Then when it was going badly, one of them bid everything in her bank account. I had to quit since I couldn't take all that money away. She claimed victory. Then they wanted to do it again. They offered a penny, and then split the dollar.
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I work in the Google cloud now. Previously I worked in the Oracle cloud and before that I was research faculty at MIT, and Chief Architect at Tokutek. Before that I worked at Akamai, was a Yale CS professor, and worked at Thinking Machines.