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At First Summit, 7CTOs Takes Baby Step to San Diego Tech Buildup

Xconomy

As a software engineer and self-described “tech guy,” de Bruin says he is more interested in. Search for “CEO books” on Amazon, and the search results from the world’s largest Internet-based retailer return just over 8,000 titles. A search for “CTO books,” on the other hand, yields about 540 titles.

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No Co-Founder? Y Combinator Offers Matchmaking at Startup School

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There were a host of reasons—she wasn’t a software engineer, she had no product development experience, and she wanted to launch a consumer item that was already sold widely by established enterprises. From the moment Talia Frenkel resolved to found a company after a kitchen-table talk with her parents, the odds were against her.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

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Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Benchling Scores $14.5M to Grow Online Lab Notebook for Bio-Researchers

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That’s the anomaly Sajith Wickramasekara was trying to correct in 2012 when he and fellow software engineer Ashu Singhal co-founded the online lab notebook startup Benchling , where he is CEO. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

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Megan Palmer, a fellow and biosecurity researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, hoped DARPA’s program would encourage a more holistic approach to biosafety in a growing field where many people, such as software engineers, might not have thought much about biosafety and security risks.

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How Will Apple Innovate Beyond the iPhone 7? With Next-Gen Siri

Xconomy

Planes have evolved on the inside through the addition of features like all-glass cockpits and fly-by-wire software. But in essence, aircraft builders have concluded that there’s only one efficient design for an aluminum airframe riding on gas-turbine engines, and it’s the one we’ve got. It’s more like a synchronization problem.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

Yes, there’s certainly a need for some number of software engineers in the world who can write low-level programs in languages like C++ or Java or JavaScript—and can handle the details of loops and declarations. One can express things at a much higher level—so one can concentrate on computational thinking, not mere programming.