The programmer is Sergey Aleynikov, who in three and a half weeks will be tried by the government on allegations that he stole valuable code from Goldman, code used in high-frequency trading systems.
On Friday, former Goldman Sachs wunderkind, Sergey Aleynikov, is to be sentenced to prison after being found guilty last December on charges related to his theft of proprietary computer code used for conducting high frequency trades.
They could be used to make cheap radio-frequency identity tags in essence, printable bar-codes that transmit an identifying code in response to a pulsed radio signal.