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4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence

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Yury Roa, SRE technical program manager at ADL Digital Labs in Bogota, Colombia. They filmed six videos, three in English and three in Spanish, with the goal of showing young girls how to pursue a STEM career. Rona Chong, software engineer at Grove Collaborative. Ana Medina, senior chaos engineer at Gremlin.

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Max Q: A landing system for the moon and beyond

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The agency will release a draft request for proposals at the end of the month, HLS program manager Lisa Watson-Morgan told reporters. I alternate between the Dune film soundtrack and exceptionally late romantic French pipe organ improvisations. . “It benefits NASA, [it] benefits the American people. More news from TC and beyond.

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

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Paul Cohen , the former DARPA program manager for AI, made a powerful statement a few years ago at a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences that we both attended: “The opportunity of AI is to help humans model and manage complex interacting systems.”. There are great fortunes yet to be made, of course.