Cisco's CTO, more than once — and a Santa Fe Institute regular
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Chief technology officer of Cisco Systems, a role he held more than once, and a board member during the company's fastest period of growth. Later held senior technology roles elsewhere.
Jonathan Hare's favorite among the Cisco executives he came to know. Details here are recalled rather than checked.
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They used to spend time together at the Santa Fe Institute, and around San Francisco and the Bay Area. The Santa Fe connection matters to this graph: it is the same room in which Hare was arguing with Murray Gell-Mann about nomenclature and asking anyone who came in for coffee how complex adaptive systems might be generalized.
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Where the networking industry went
Open →where the friendship formedThe coffee break room
Open →colleagueThe acquisition machine, and the era it defined
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