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The Geeks in Question: Jennifer Chayes & Christian Borgs

The job titles: Managing Director and Deputy Managing Director of Microsoft Research, respectively. Also: spouses.

You guys are heading to Foo Camp later today, right? I hear that all attendees had to answer a few questions for their bios, including “Which Star Wars character are you?”
Jennifer: I said Luke Skywalker, because I’m always seeking.

Christian: And I said, “I’m D2R2!”

Jennifer: …It’s R2D2! Forgive him, he’s European.

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The web’s all a-twitter about the MSFT/Facebook deal that was just announced. I’m mostly curious to see if this means more ‘Softies will start using Facebook. The Microsoft Network has 18,000 members, which isn’t that many, when you consider I have almost 80,000 coworkers…