Who I am...
Robert Allan Jakobson... is a mid-40s Program Manager (the guy with the gray hair on the left above... the talented good looking guy on the right is my son).
[It even says so on my business cards and so it must be true right?]
What I've been up to...
Since October of last year I've been over at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. Working with the Windows Unlimited Potential Program and the Microsoft PC3 Windows COSD groups to put Windows XP Pro on the OLPC XO-1. You can read more about here...
Microsoft and One Laptop per Child Partner to Deliver Affordable Computing to Students Worldwide
or watch this cool video here...
Or... You can read about it here on James Utzschneider's Inside Up Blog...
Or... about the cool trip to Cambridge where MS got to show off our work to OLPC...
Or... see it here...
What I did on the project...
So what did I do on it? I was the Program Manager working with the Driver Development teams, and also worked with the UPG for the pilots and even some of the work on <topic redacted> (I hate NDAs!!!).
Anyway - I worked under Bohdhan and John who you see in the photos and videos on pretty much all of the cool stuff that you see. It was an amazing and wonderful experience and I am beyond proud of all the teams I worked with to help make it happen.
Hats off to the everyone - they're literally the best on the planet. Congrats!
Contacting me...
You can contact me by email at rajakobson@comcast.net,
Or .. you can try contacting me by telepathy.
(I don't recommend it - as the number of voices in his head gets a bit loud, and I tend to ignore them after a bit.)
Or... you can check out my spaces.live.com page...
Which currently is covering some of the cool free tools available to do things like this web site.
Or you can also contact me via my LinkedIn Profile here: