Short Bio
- January 19, 1976
- Born in Moscow, Russia
- 1982
- Went to Moscow School 209
- 1989
- Was accepted to School 57
- 1990
- Thrown out of the school and wend back to my alma mater (209)
- 1992
- Emigrated to US, leaving just one week before graduating
- 1993
- Started studying at Boston
University, department of
Computer Science
- 1995
- Figured out what I want to do for the foreseeable future and
started research in
Computer Vision with
Prof. Stan Sclaroff
- 1997
- Graduated from BU with Master of Arts degree and went to work for
Cognex Inc..
- 1999
- Got accepted into MIT and started
working at Artificial Intelligence
Laboratiry
- 2001
- Still going.....
KBH
I am a founding member of the
BU KBH Team. KBH is the popular russian
improv comedy game. The american version is called KaBH where 'a' stands for... you guessed it.
We got to the final game of 1997-1998 season, and were champions of
1999-2000 season.
Shim Gum Do
For the last five years I have been training in the art of
Shim Gum Do
at Shim Gwang Sa, the Mind Light Temple. A year ago I have achieved the
Third Star Level.
Pictures
Recently, I have been traveling quite a lot to different places, and
sometimes I even had my camera with me. Here are some pictures that I got
around to scanning in. There is also some stuff that I just grabbed off
somebody, because I liked it. Enjoy.
Books
At some point I will post the list of books that I have (in case somebody
wants to borrow). For now I there is a list of
interesting or funny quotes from various books (some of them in russian).
Created by: Leonid Taycher