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Mike graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Sciences, systems software emphasis, specifically languages, compilers and linguistic theory. He studied under Dr. Frank DeRemer, MIT, inventor of LaLR Parsing methodology. Dr. DeRemer and associate Dr. Tom Pennello, would soon leave the academic halls to form MetaWare Incorporated with David Pickens, developer of IBM's Pascal/VS, and to eventually recruit Mike as the 4th member of the MetaWare Compiler Development Team. In the mean time, Mike worked under consignment with IBM on proprietary language development at IBM Los Gatos, and then at Digital Research Incorporated, where he began work on IBM's compilers and interpreters for the yet-to-be-released AIX/RT PowerPC machines.