Honorary Lectures James Larus

How did I end up in Switzerland teaching computer science? Thinking back, I can only attribute this wonderful situation to saying “yes” at the right time to a number of opportunities that fortunately came to me. Along this journey, I made my career in the most interesting field of the past four decades, one that has changed our world three times and is in the midst of doing it again. I learned a few important lessons along this path: collaborators matter, luck is sometimes better than brains, never take a job without a goal, and always do new things.