User:John Smith

I was born on August 17, 1954 in Houthalen, Belgium, and I did all my schooling in Belgium. I first came to the United States for a postdoctoral position of two years, starting in 1981, but then I went back to Belgium. I didn't think that I would come back to the US after that except for short visits. But life decided otherwise. After meeting Robert Calderbank in 1985, I returned to the US to settle for good in 1987, after we got married. I started to work for Bell Labs (where, many years ago, the first transistor was built; it is also where the cosmic microwave background radiation was discovered, as well as many other wonderful things -- check it out!).