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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Matthew Willsey, a neurosurgeon who specializes in brain-computer interfaces. It has been edited for length and clarity.Before I became a neurosurgeon, I was an electrical engineer.I graduated from MIT with my undergraduate degree and pursued my master’s in electrical engineering. I…
Getting a sought-after job at a top AI lab may require a surprisingly old-fashioned approach, according to a Google DeepMind distinguished engineer.”Work like a dog,” Vladimir Feinberg, a researcher who leads Gemini pretraining at Google’s AI lab, wrote in a recent blog post titled “How to Land a Frontier Lab…
This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Renee Li, a 29-year-old analytics engineer in New York. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been in New York for about three years. Before that, I was fully nomadic in Asia, South America, and Europe, living out of a carry-on.Most…
As graduation season collides with diminishing entry-level roles and slower hiring, the former distinguished engineer at Google has notes for fresh grads.Kelsey Hightower, who retired from Google in 2023, told Business Insider that the current job market is vastly different from the one he entered decades ago, but young people…
AI is modernizing supply chains by suggesting more efficient delivery routes, tracking energy use, and increasing access to quality products. Still, the broader logistics industry is in the early stages of AI implementation.”Tools have developed faster than what the internal capability has,” said Anastasia Kouvela, a managing director and partner…
A decade after he co-founded a medical device to open up clogged arteries caused by coronary heart disease, John Adams underwent his own treatment.An electrical engineer and medical device entrepreneur, John Adams first started tinkering with the concept of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) in 2007 with his partner, Daniel Hawkins. The…
