Amazing. I love seeing when lcamtuf stuff comes up here. Michal's classic paper on strange attractors in tcp randomness, and later, RNGs is still my favorite security research of all time.
It made some concepts in crypto accessible enough to pursue a career related to it and demonstrated how you can use data viz to reveal information, and not merely to represent it.
His comment about his father being a cinematographer who worked on large productions in Poland made me wonder if his father worked with Kieslowski, owing to his being of the few productions of the time and region that would be considered big ticket. If that were who he was making reference to, in addition to his inspirational research, the indirect impact this family has had on at least my life (as an obscure nerd in Canada) would be extra astounding.
It made some concepts in crypto accessible enough to pursue a career related to it and demonstrated how you can use data viz to reveal information, and not merely to represent it.
His comment about his father being a cinematographer who worked on large productions in Poland made me wonder if his father worked with Kieslowski, owing to his being of the few productions of the time and region that would be considered big ticket. If that were who he was making reference to, in addition to his inspirational research, the indirect impact this family has had on at least my life (as an obscure nerd in Canada) would be extra astounding.