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

Xconomy

A lot of ink has been spilled on the subject of building tech startups and creating entrepreneurial communities for tech innovation. As a software engineer and self-described “tech guy,” de Bruin says he is more interested in. 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

Xconomy

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

Xconomy

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

Xconomy

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 to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

But now we’ve also launched our Wolfram Open Cloud —so that anyone anywhere can start learning computational thinking with the Wolfram Programming Lab , using the Wolfram Language. To get enough precision to be able to get definite results one would end up with something like very elaborate and incomprehensible legalese.

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

Xconomy

Maybe, before phones can get smarter, software engineers have to get smarter. What made the original iPhone so groundbreaking was a remarkable convergence of hardware and software innovation. The combination opened up so many possibilities that app builders have now spent the better part of a decade exploring them.