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Hi, my name is José Castro, and I currently hold the title of Engineering Hiring…
Hi, my name is Grady Booch; I am an IBM Fellow, and Chief Scientist at IBM Research for Software Engineering, as well as Chief Architect for a project called Watson/M which involves an AI effort for embodied cognition, in effect…
Sometimes, designing software is like creating a piece of art. At the beginning, everything is a puzzle, like dozens of words that run through your mind. Step-by-step, they find their place into the final shape of a creation that everyone can enjoy. For…
There are four main things that I took from music into my career:
First, being a member of a band helped me to understand what it means to work as a team. Everybody needs to have his or her own well-defined part on the…
Hi, my name is Aidan McCullen, and I am a disruptive innovation consultant at Katawave, a business imagination studio based in Dublin. My career in digital technology only began about nine years ago. Before then I was a professional Rugby…
A few nights ago, I tried a new approach to a full-length silent film I am scoring (Nosferatu — 1922). I watched the film start to finish and motif-jammed — my term for it — the film. I loaded up a string section into my sampler and…
Anyone who does not have a baking disaster story is not a baker! Probably the most stressful almost-disaster I have had was making a cake for my nana’s 80th birthday. I thought a hexagonal cake would be beautiful, but I did not count on how difficult…
Hi, my name is Mark Reidy, and I am currently working on an Ecommerce start up called Bellanove as the head of growth and operations. I was born in the US, just outside of Washington DC. I moved to North Carolina when I…
My first time doing stand up was a good experience. I wrote up a 10-minute routine, and went to an open mic in Barcelona called El Medi, a bar where I usually go that runs opens mics for stand up comedy. My friends told me that I should try it out, and I finally…
