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A little bit about me:

I was born in Ithaca, NY, the first-born son of Robert Kraut and Aya Betensky, both professors at Cornell at the time. Then we moved. So, from the age of 3 until after my freshman year in high school, I lived in Highland Park, NJ, where my dad worked for Bell Labs and then BellCore, and my mom worked in publishing, ending up as the director of marketing at Scarecrow Press. Soon after we moved, my brother Joel was born. When I was 14, my dad reentered academia as a professor at Carnegie Mellon, so we moved to Pittsburgh, where I attended Taylor-Allderdice High School. Eventually, I went off to college (Swarthmore), and my mom decided to take up a career in web design, a far cry from the Ph.D. in classics she started out with. Most recently, I graduated, and in the fall I'll be heading off to Stanford to get my Ph.D. in biochemistry.

Note that sometime in September, 2000, this page will become frozen, a piece of history enshrined in the annals of the SCCS (Swarthmore College Computing Society, for those of you not in the know) for all time. At which point a current version of the page will be moved to Stanford.

I suppose that's enough for this intro page; I'll close it out with a few of my most recent favorite quotes, courtesy of long-dead white men (also known as philosophers). And ok, they might not all be long-dead, but two out of three isn't too shabby.

". . . small people can be attractive and well-proportioned, but not beautiful"
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics IV.3.1123b
(DEAD)

"There is no difficulty in proving any ethical standard whatever to work ill, if we suppose universal idiocy to be conjoined with it" - Mills, Utilitarianism, Ch. II
(DEAD)

"Only the nihilist who remains alive is interesting"
- Alexandre Kojéve, Desire and Work in the Master and Slave
(DEAD, but only for 30 years)