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First job lessons: Seattle tech startup CEOs on what they learned from car washing, delivery, and more

GeekWire

I wrote device drivers for the IBM PC, as well as Apple Mac IIs and SEs.”. Device driver and E/PROM programmers are closest to the hardware, and that bottoms-up understanding how a computer operates — from booting to loading the OS, to launching apps and beyond — is still immensely valuable, even in the era of cloud and AI/machine learning!”.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

“We’re leveraging essentially an $11 billion investment already made in Linux by many other companies including IBM and Intel,” Streif said. “In the past, we’ve had generations of infotainment systems where we buy a piece of hardware and some proprietary software from a tier 1 supplier to the auto industry.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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