Six Observations on Mark Horowitz

摘要

Anyone who volunteers for IEEE or works on a conference committee will recognize the syndrome. You find yourself in a room full of people you don't know very well, but you know their names and their reputations, and you think "I sure hope I don't make a fool of myself." Then the saying "better be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt" pops into your head. The discussion begins, and you spend half your time thinking "what the heck did they just say?" and the other half thinking "wait, that can't be right." And then Mark Horowitz speaks up, cuts right to the heart of what's being discussed, and in a reasonable, nonoffensive way, gets two key points across: 1) you're all on the wrong track and 2) here?s the right one. It's a beautiful thing to watch.