= Marc Verdiell
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= Jean-Marc Verdiell
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<Marc Verdiell> is a <French> <electrical engineer> born in 1963 or 1964https://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2001/20011129corp.htm{ref} and best known for being the creator and host of the <CuriousMarc> YouTube channel where he does <mind blowing> repairs and <reverse engineering> of vintage <computers> and other <electronic> equipment.
Marc sold his company <LightLogic>, an <optoelectronics> company he founded, to <Intel> in April 2001. This was just after the <dot-com crash>, but <Intel> apparently still correctly believed that the networking and the <Internet> would continue to grow and was investing in the area. His associate <#Frank Shum> sued claiming he should be credited for some of the inventions sold but lost and Marc got it all.https://www.courthousenews.com/inventor-barred-from-proceeds-of-intel-buyout/{ref}https://mergr.com/intel-acquires-lightlogic{ref}https://www.lightreading.com/business-management/lightlogic-bulks-up-under-intel{ref}. Marc was then almost immediately appointed an <Intel fellow> at the extremelly early age of 37, and then stayed for a few years at <Intel> until 2006 according to his LinkedIn.https://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2001/20011129corp.htm{ref}https://web.archive.org/web/20030213010020/http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/verdiell.htm{ref}
Marc's <LinkedIn> profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-verdiell-9742795/
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{title=<Marc Verdiell> at the <Computer History Museum>}
{description=Location inferred from Marc's videos, but likely, he often frequents the place, and it looks a bit like that.}
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Marc's full name is actualy <Jean-Marc Verdiell>, but <Ciro Santilli> remembers there was one <YouTube> video where he mentions he gave up on "Jean" partly because <anglophones> would murder its pronounciation all the time.
Marc's <PhD thesis> is listed at: https://theses.fr/1990PA112048 and it is entitled:
> Mise en phase de reseaux de lasers a semi-conducteur
which is translated into English as:
> Phase locking of <semiconductor laser> arrays
but the full text is not available online.
\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ2-kkhghD4]
{title=Profile of <Marc Verdiell> by Gizmodo (2018)}
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https://youtu.be/tJ2-kkhghD4?t=74 gives his house's location <Atherton, California>, part of <Silicon Valley>.
https://youtu.be/ZgAreiFXhJk?t=253 lists some famous people who live there. It's like a micro heaven.
And a person who makes <open educational content> like Marc, truly deserves it.
Atherton managed to keep the entire place green and every house has a pool. Wikipedia comments https://web.archive.org/web/20220906010554/https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/features/most-expensive-zip-codes-us/[]:
> Atherton is known for its wealth; in 1990 and 2019, Atherton was ranked as having the highest per capita income among U.S. towns with a population between 2,500 and 9,999, and it is regularly ranked as the most expensive ZIP Code in the United States \[(94027)\]. The town has very restricting zoning, only permitting one single-family home per acre and no sidewalks. The inhabitants have strongly opposed proposals to permit more housing construction and <Forbes> confirms it for 2022: https://web.archive.org/web/20220906010554/https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/features/most-expensive-zip-codes-us/[], by far on top.
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