Previously, [Michael] taught theoretical and computational physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for six years, where he received the Life

Previously, [Michael] taught theoretical and computational physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for six years, where he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000. Michael is a graduate of Harvard College, has a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech, and is an alumnus of the Y Combinator program. man, I guess my stereotype that it's mostly non-academic programmers who wouldn't know a heap from a hash-table which are drawn to web-dev is a little out of date...