Jacob Eliosoff (uh-LIE-uh-soff) is a computer programmer from Montreal and Toronto with two computer science degrees from McGill University (BA ’97, MSc ’04).  His master’s thesis was about a formal verification algorithm for probabilistic systems.  His first programming jobs were for startups, including Hutchison Avenue Software in Montreal and Invisible Hand Networks in New York and Boston.  He has also taught computer science, first at McGill and then from 2003-2005 at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, where he also consulted for Global Computing Solutions, an Ethiopian technology company.  He returned to Montreal in fall 2005 to work on his own quantitative trading software project before joining Goldman Sachs in New York as a Strategist (programmer/quant) in March 2006.  Jacob is serious about one thing and one thing only: takraw.  He is currently saving up so he can take time off to complete his treatise on the philosophy of knowledge, Why Are People Wrong?