Yes - that's John.
And this is you; www.linkedin.com/in/simonresume
I've previously read your bettering Bitcoin article published in The Finacial Cryptography Journal with Stanford's Robotics. If other's here would read it, it would certainly raise the level of aptitude within this forum.
In any case, looking forward to seeing more of what you're planning. You certainly have the background for this...
Good luck.
I agree, and that's why it was an easy decision to work for him when he called.
here are some more links regarding Simon:
Simons paper: http://crypto.stanford.edu/~xb/fc12/bitcoin.pdf which is the second reference here btw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#References
Simon Barbers Profile at PARC: http://www.parc.com/about/people/2220/simon-barber.html
Cheers,
John