[djcapelis]

He also worked on Chord, which became a basis for distributed hash tables and a few other things. He is as successful as a researcher as he has been with the whole gaining tenure and doing viaweb/ycombinator with pg thing.

Frankly he's up there with Steve Jobs and maybe Fabrice Bellard in terms of "people who I'd like to know what it is they're doing so right so consistently." It's the consistency that tends to surprise me.