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April 16, '10

Presented the H.K. Douglas Cotton Memorial Lecture at Gilman School, Baltimore, MD.

February 10, '10

Speaking at Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leader's Seminar Series.

November 3, '09

Speaking on the Enabling Innovation panel at SAP in Palo Alto.

September 3, '09

Presenting at DartBoston's Pokin' Holes at Vintage Lounge in Boston.

May 13, '09

Speaking at the SDForum Tech Titans of Tomorrow: Teens Plugged In conference at Hewlett Packard.

April 25, '09

Speaking at the I Don't Know to CEO conference at Stanford.

April 7, '09

Speaking at the ASES Summit at Stanford on the Young Entrepreneurs panel.

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Jan 09

The Lottery Lady

“Take the typical state lotto. If you knew all of the variables in the machine that draws the numbers, you can solve for which numbers will land in the winning numbers area.”

Ummmm….yeah…I’m gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there. Most of those machines blow ping-pong balls around with air, which is most likely turbulent, and they are blown up into the slots when the lottery lady pulls the lever for the slot. Since, at a minimum, you can’t solve for the state of the lottery lady, you can’t “solve for which numbers will land in the winning numbers area.”

(Never mind the outrageous accuracy of initial conditions and precision of the calculations you’d need to solve for the movement of ~4 dozen ping-pong balls being blown around by turbulent air.)

From Slashdot comments, of course. And this doesn’t even breach the topic of Heisenberg Uncertainty…

[Re:Looking for god’s finger prints? Here it is.]

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Jeff Seibert

Jeff Seibert co-founded Increo Solutions, Inc. in 2007 and served as its President and COO until its acquisition by Box.net, Inc. in August of 2009. He currently works for Box as a Software Engineer where he manages the integration of Increo's document preview and annotation technologies into the company's online document management platform.

Seibert gained experience at Apple, Inc. in both marketing and engineering capacities and served as Co-Coordinator of Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar series. He was selected as a Mayfield Fellow in 2007 and received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.

Seibert discovered his passion for entrepreneurship at a young age, founding Arios Software and developing and selling Macintosh desktop software during high school at Gilman in Baltimore, MD. Outside of work, he tries to spend as much time away from the computer as possible, whether it be surfing, snowboarding, or playing tennis.

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