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Why these successful software founders are planting seeds for new ag tech ventures

GeekWire

Some of the stars of the show are Pacific Northwest entrepreneurs who found success in the software industry and are now bringing their startup savvy to the food and agriculture industry. Each founder responded independently to the same set of emailed questions about the state of ag tech: Why are software entrepreneurs going into ag tech?

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Retro Chic: The IoT Means Hardware Engineers Are Cool Again

The Investing Edge

By WWI, a third key player in the Industrial Revolution, Chemical Engineers, had emerged to advance the science and design of materials. The new rock stars of the technology-entrepreneur world had become Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical Engineers, and this would be true for much of the 20 th century. (My engineering folks.

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Vote for Startup CEO of the Year: These five leaders are taking their companies to new heights

GeekWire

Katherine Sizov (bottom left): The CEO and co-founder of Strella Biotechnology wants to help reduce food waste with her company’s hardware that detects ethylene, a chemical released by fruit as it ripens. Founded in 2017, Strella won GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch competition in 2022.

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Chris Nardecchia, SVP and chief digital and information officer, Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation Chris Nardecchia: I started as a chemical engineer doing chemical engineering things, building and operating chemical and nuclear processes, producing polymers and nuclear fuel, etc. Now, software eats hardware for lunch.

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CIOs Discover That Dumb Technology Can’t Always Be Upgraded

The Accidental Successful CIO

737 MAX airliners had to grapple with a hybrid of old and new technology , where a complex piece of software controls hydraulic pumps and motors similar to those used when Lyndon Johnson was president. emissions tests by doctoring control software that had been added to diesel-engine designs. Dealing With The Old And The New.

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GeekWire news round-up: Pulumi and Muir raise cash; LinkedIn’s new AI tools; ‘Uncommon Thinkers’

GeekWire

Valve and Picnik vets Hatch new startup idea: Longtime Seattle software developers and entrepreneurs Darrin Massena and Mike Harrington have built a no-code web development platform for creative thinkers who don’t possess programming expertise. Lisi Photo) Ag-tech startup kept digging for the right idea: Richland, Wash.-based

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Microsoft gives developers a new method for estimating quantum computing needs

GeekWire

It’s a software tool that was originally developed for Microsoft’s internal use. “We’ll be able to study, for example, how to help remove harmful gases from the atmosphere,” Krysta Svore , distinguished engineer and vice president of quantum software at Microsoft, told GeekWire.

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