It feels like I have known Amir much longer than the school year we’ve been working together. We come from similar backgrounds (both from the East Coast, both from Jewish families, both interested in computers and programming, etc.) and seemed to have an immediate sense of shared experience and familiarity with each other. (I will never forget Amir inviting me one Friday evening after work to a Shabbat dinner on campus, I hadn’t before known such a Friday night gathering even existed at Stanford.)
The work Amir has done with the project was becoming increasingly original and impressive. His knowledge, curiosity, and enthusiasm about computers and computer science made him a tremendous asset to our team. I was greatly looking forward to our continued work together, our ongoing discussions, to our sharing ideas, and to learning new things from one another. Amir will be very much personally and professionally missed by all of us who have had the great pleasure of knowing and working with him at Stanford / SCIL.
–Joe Rosen, Lead Programmer on Diver Project