David Unger gave a great talk recently on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ka4KY7TMTU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ka4KY7TMTU (recorded at Stanford, but

David Unger gave a great talk recently on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ka4KY7TMTU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ka4KY7TMTU (recorded at Stanford, but it's a reprise of his acceptance speech on receiving the Dahl-Nygaard award from memory) He has a role-call at the end of what the people involved in the self project went on to do afterwards, and it's staggering: some of the engineers of the original Google architecture, what became Hotspot as you say, Lars Bak (of Chrome V8) as someone else has pointed out... just an amazing list.