At Reservoir Labs, his team has been working on algorithms and compiler software for advanced computer architectures. Richard received his Ph.D. from MIT, where his group was part of the AI lab and built the J-Machine for AI – a massively parallel computer funded by the DARPA Strategic Computing Initiative, amidst concerns about the Japanese 5th Generation Computer Architecture Project. Richard received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale and joined a Yale computer architecture spinout called Multiflow Computer that developed the first Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) computer.