But when Google approached him in the spring of 2012, he had no interest in leaving the University of Toronto. He was a sixty-four-year-old tenured professor overseeing a long line of graduate students and postdocs. So he merely agreed to spend the summer at the new lab.11 Owing to the idiosyncrasies of Google’s employment rules, the company brought him in as an intern, alongside dozens of college students on summer break. He felt like an oddity during orientation week,12 when he seemed to be the only one who didn’t know that an LDAP was a way of logging in to the Google computer network.
