okay, so i’m reading this quick bit on how email turned 34 (hey, it lived longer than jesus and alexander the great!)…but, uh, i got a story problem…this guy paul bucheit from elGoog is credited as the first gmail engineer, and from what i understand, there’s another important guy not mentioned in that article - georges harik, one of elgoog’s earliest (and probably richest) employees…

who is george, and what am i talking about? well, according to webtalkradio , he did some critical early work on gmail…now’s he’s some kinda ‘distinguished engineer’ - a summary bio for all y’all: “During the mid-90s, Georges Harik visited the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Lab for an extended period as part of his PhD studies at the University of Michigan. He did a lovely thesis on the linkage learning GA, and did a number of other very creative things, including the gambler’s ruin problem population sizing, compact GA, and extended compact GA. Georges left the lab to make his mark in commerce, first working for a data-mining group at SGI and then taking a position as one of the early employees at Google in early 1999. Today, Georges is Director of Googlettes as part of Google. ” - am i wrong about george’s work with gmail? somebody? anybody? bueller…?

…my point? hey, elgoog, we all know that fights for authorship take great companies down, and now that you’ve grown up and finally hired some real gray hair, perhaps you oughta start citing all key contributors to your apps (the guy even says “we” a few times!)…just my two cents. not even sure why i blogged this bit to begin with, just hate when people get overlooked, even if i don’t know ‘em personally….

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