Alumni in high places

February 9, 2006 in Technology and UW by matt | 1 comment

I’m subscribed to a few of the Google products/services blogs. One of them is the Google Talk one. The newest entry talks about the release of Google’s Desktop Search version 3.0 (causing some privacy concerns).

In any case I usually don’t read who posts the entries on the Google blogs because I didn’t think that I knew anyone who worked there besides Rob. Today though I happened to look and noticed that the name of the poster is John Abd-El-Malek. He was in my class at the University of Waterloo. He’s now a software engineer at Google. Not to be outdone, his brother is pursuing his Ph.D at Carnegie Mellon. And he’s not the only one I know doing their Ph.D. It’s great to see my classmates doing so well. We were a very smart bunch. The reunion in 2008 will be interesting.

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