Gun Sirer is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.
Sirer works on self-organizing systems, which span operating systems, networking and distributed systems. He likes building things, especially systems that have some principled reason for why they should work. His current projects involve peer-to-peer systems, systems support for ad hoc networks, and operating systems.
Sirer's comments are from a panel on Information Technology Entrepreneurship from Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration in April 2010.
Gun Sirer received a B.S.E. from Princeton University and an M.S and Ph.D. from University of Washington.
I never had to sell my latest company to a VC so I don't know about pitching to VCs our latest technology, but we still have to go in and make our case to other technologists. Trends happen among technologists as well. People ask us about social networking tie-ins. They'll ask us about HTML 5, th...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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