{"id":81,"date":"2007-09-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/09\/06\/dr-steve-chen\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T19:24:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T03:24:21","slug":"dr-steve-chen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2007\/09\/dr-steve-chen\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Steve Chen"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was in grade school, YANG Chen-Ning and LEE Tsung-Dao<\/a> were my heroes. I had no idea why they won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, but they did. And they are my fellow Chinese.<\/p>\n

Older, and I entered the computer industry. Soon, I learned about and became so proud of Dr. Steve Chen<\/a>. Imagine my excitement when I met him earlier this year. I couldn’t wait showing off to Amiram<\/a> and Mike about my new celebrity acquaintance.<\/p>\n

This summer, I was a fly on the wall listening to a conversation between Greg Papadopoulos<\/a> and Dr. Chen. They chatted about old time and old friends like buddies who have not seen each others for a long time. They talked about utility computing, super computer, grid inter-connect, IT industry, China, etc. The conversation was as riveting as mesmerizing. As a bonus, Steve was lost coming to the meeting place and I picked Greg’s brain for almost 40 minutes. That was a very cool day.<\/p>\n

\"Dr.<\/p>\n

Unlike other returnee entrepreneurs, Dr. Steve Chen went directly to started improving villagers’ lives. Steve observed the horrid poverty and decided to fix it with what he does best: creating a modern IT infra-structure for the whole country. His passion and energy are contagious. Few people walked away without an urge to help his cause.<\/p>\n

It sounds so simple hearing from Steve, “I call it grid-in-a-box.” He has a scalable architecture deployable at several levels of government. The idea reminds me of Project Blackbox<\/a>, or commoditization of super-computing. After hearing Steve, there appears no other way to computerize China.<\/p>\n

And I want to help too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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