Jun Wu was a staff research scientist in Google who invented Google’s Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Web Search Algorithms and was responsible for many Google machine learning projects. He wrote official blogs introducing Google technologies behind its products in very simple languages for Chinese internet users from 2006-2010. The blogs had more than two million followers. He received Ph.D. in computer science from the Johns Hopkins University and had been working on speech recognition and natural language processing for more than 20 years. He was one of the earliest engineers of Google, managed many products of the company, and was awarded more than ten US patents during his ten-year tenure there. He became a full-time VC investor and co-founded Amino Capital in Palo Alto in 2014 and is the author of eight books.
我对吴军的印象是他和李开复,雷军,Paul Graham 一样,赶上了计算机革命浪潮,完成从工人到财富自由的转变,虽然他并没有像其他人成为天使投资人,而是走上了写作之路,主题大大小小不一,包括计算机企业,数学,大学,文明,科学革命等等,并从 Google 黑板报写到到如今的《态度》。
好看的家书不一定意味父母对子女的教育是成功的,胡适也会给儿子写家书,但他小儿子却和父亲莫名地有矛盾,在胡适逃离大陆时居然留下来,一个人默默无闻地死于新中国。不过,我在这本书可以看出,他虽然和我父母算同辈,却有非常不一样的地方,比如终身学习在整个家庭上下老小都得到实践,据说[吴军父母八十岁了](http://www.first-china.cn/NewsInfo.as...) 还在学习;他父母从来不会在孩子面前吵架;吴军习惯和女儿邮件通讯,还会分享交流看过的电影,而我父亲算半个计算机文盲,我母亲习惯在微信呼叫我或传文件让我帮忙解决计算机问题;吴军还和 MIT 某院长一起吃饭谈他女儿的选课,我父母认识地位最高的文人大抵也就一个双非一本的普通教授。难怪有人说「父母对孩子最好的投资就是投资自己。比学区、学校…更举足轻重的明明就是父母本身的眼界和实力。」