Stephen Hawking - An inspiration
Photo: Professor Srwphen Hawking attends the launch of “Speak to Me”, an exhibition which explores the role of new technologies in improving communication for people with disabilities in 1993( Reuters) It was sometime in May 1998, I was a young naïve engineer working at Silicon Graphics Inc. Those were the days that Silicon Graphics on Shoreline Blvd in Mountain View was one of the most high flying companies in the valley – the Silicon Valley. A brief History in Time was just published a few years earlier and still had a lot of buzz. I hardly understood the Big Bang theory or the Black Hole or general relativity or quantum mechanics. Though was an engineer by education, these were subjects that only Stephen Hawking could talk about. One day the whole office was a buzz and posters were stuck everywhere that Stephen Hawking was going to visit Silicon Graphics and would give a talk in the Atrium on the Big Bang Theory( hopefully I remember it right). An hour before the