As of 20 July 2004, I no longer work for Microsoft.

You are not going to be seeing any leaving Microsoft letters of the sort you may have seen from some ex-microsofties. I am going back to college. Over the years, I figured I don’t understand computer science very well. I figured I lack some fundamental things in my understanding of the way this science works. I love computer science and the only way I am going to be able to good enough to quit the field and probably go sell airplane rides for a living, is if I understand it better. So I am going to college.

I am joining Indiana University this fall for my Masters in Computer Science. I am navigating primarily by instinct right now, so I don’t have clear answers to ‘What next Rosh?’

I left Microsoft with very good opinions about the company. Easily the best company I worked for – for the quality of the work they do, for the quality of the people, for the culture and the spirit. I wish it was a much braver company with respect to taking risks, and boldly chasing after the next step in the everyday computing. I wish it leveraged its people better, I wish it was more about blood and genius and less about schedules and numbers. But it is easily better than most places that I have had the opportunity of knowing.

I am going to be thinking about a different class of problems for the next few years - problems about nature of computation, logic and mathematics.

The weekend I left Hyderabad I got to visit Golconda once more –

Golconda Fort, Hyderabad

I am now back at home, in beautiful Cochin –

Cruise boats at Marine drive, Cochin