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Stanford, CA, US

Palo Alto, California, US

The Technically Optimistic podcast examines the intersection of technology with our society. We started with "Season One" examining how artificial intelligence technology rolls out and impacts us all -- and asks questions about power and humanity. Most conversations about AI are about "go full steam ahead" or "pause everything". This podcast lives in the.

Yerevan, AM

Yerevan, AM

TUMO is an amazing institution that offers free educational enrichment to teenagers. It is a place unlike any other in the world where students get access to technology in ways not normally available. The studios have computers, 3D printers, music studios, robotics labs, photography and filmography equipment, etc. Its goal is to expand the horizons of.

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Medic is a nonprofit organization founded to improve health with and in the hardest-to-reach communities. The open-source software helps over 25,000 community health workers provide care for more than 14 million people in Africa and Asia. These health workers deliver care and services, door-to-door, through one million home visits each month. Together with.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Cambridge, MA, US

New York, NY, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

New York City, NY, US

Acquired by Amplica Labs / Project Liberty and listed as one of the 5 best North American innovations of 2024 by Fast Company -- SpeakEasy AI, née Narwhal, is a social media network designed with the goal of helping democracy function better and for people to understand each other better.We built technology to sort conversations by quality; to.

Park City, Utah, US

Washington, DC, US

Responsible for building the largest and highest performing technical team within Democratic politics as its first CTO (the role of CTO did not exist previously). Recruited, and lead, a 45+ person team to work on infrastructure, data / analytics, community support, and security. Raised millions earmarked to tech for the Democratic party. Spent time on tech.

San Francisco, California, US

Responsible for the launch of the first ever self-driving Uber fleet in Pittsburgh, PA. Deployed a service where self-driving vehicles picked up and moved passengers as part of the Uber service. This fleet, at the time, had a perfect safety record.Overall director of the Uber ATC (Uber's self-driving efforts) from March 2016 until the acquisition of Otto.

San Francisco, CA, US

In charge of the 500-person global team that managed Twitter Platform -- the core infrastructure that powers Twitter as well as the Twitter ecosystem. Managed the metrics of reliability, performance, scalability, and availability of Twitter worldwide, as well as the developer effectiveness of all engineers internal to Twitter.Previously, held multiple.

Mountain View, CA, US

Responsibilities include product management, architecture, and engineering of a Scala-based scalable platform to measure, track, and share personal energy consumption. Helps push the national energy conversation to be one around holistic energy accounting rather than focusing on particular verticals. Built a read/write API, forums, aggregation/spidering.

Fountain Valley, California, US

Founded, built, managed, and sold a successful and profitable ten person technological design and consulting firm. Responsibilities included new business development, marketing, and communications. On the engineering side, aided with requirements gathering, architecting, and implementation. Select projects include: developing a large (10,000+ unit) install.

New York, NY, US

Created a spring term class entitled “Every Bit You Make” for students to do research on 21st century surveillance techniques; learn and understand the infrastructure of IP networks, RF networks, RFID devices, and the basics of data mining. Created a fall term class entitled “Physical computing without the computer” where students researched and developed.

Cambridge, MA, US

Taught fabrication at many different scales -- from the millimeter to the many meter. Every week, had crash courses in microcontroller programming, laser cutting, 3D printing, computer network, etc.

Cambridge, MA, US

Worked as a research assistant to Professor Neil Gershenfeld studing organic networks of extreme scales. Designed a set of rules and a set of characteristics that comprise the "Internet 0" (as published in Scientific American under "The Internet of Things") -- how to extend the reach of the Internet from computing to the physical world, and how to extend.

Sebastopol, CA, US

TiVo Hacks covers tips for changing the order of recorded programs, activating the 30-second skip to blaze through commercials, and more, by using magical remote-control codes. Once you take the lid off, you will learn how to gain even more fun and functionality. You can upgrade the hard drive for more hours of recording, log in to the serial port for.

Designed and implemented the Popular Power distributed computational engine. Created a Java-based secure execution environment that ran on thousands of nodes; built an API for mobile code execution with security mechanisms, statistics gathering, halting, and resuming capabilities.

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