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He was a strange and wonderful fellow. He was building a fluid computer at 17 because he thought it would be cool - literally NAND and XOR gates using miniature hydraulics. It got him an internship at one of the machine shops at the lab when he was 17; when I needed a busted bolt removed from a cylinder head and was screwing around with easy outs, he said "lemme just take it to work and use the EDM burner." I've always harbored the notion that he was fighting a schizophrenic break, 'cuz he got kinda weird. But according to LinkedIn, he's got a Ph.D in mechanical engineering from Johns Hopkins and was a post-doctoral fellow in robotics.