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Max Q: A landing system for the moon and beyond

TechCrunch

The agency will release a draft request for proposals at the end of the month, HLS program manager Lisa Watson-Morgan told reporters. Incidentally, my wife Dr Christine Moran is the deputy manager of the NASA exoplanet program! “It benefits NASA, [it] benefits the American people. What song has been on repeat? .

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4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence

TechCrunch

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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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Yes, machine learning, statistical analysis, and programming are all needed, but so is deep knowledge of relevant science. Prediction: The nexus of machine learning and medicine, biology, and materials science will be to the coming decades what Silicon Valley has been to the late 20th and early 21st century.