TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

When racism is built into the technical framework of a company, it perpetuates a false idea that white people are superior to Black people. . Meet the Formerly Incarcerated Software Engineers who Built a No-Police Alternative to 911. The latest in the battle over Prop 22 and AB 5. Send me an email at megan@techcrunch.com .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The idea for the funding program, called Safe Genes, is to get out ahead of problems that could bring the field to a screeching halt. “We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

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. No, what’s missing is an organizing idea—a new way of packaging and interacting with the information on our mobile devices.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

And as soon as we have an idea that we can formulate computationally, the point is that the language lets us express it, and then—thanks to 30 years of technology development—lets us as automatically as possible actually execute the idea. The Wolfram Language is a programming language. So when you write in it, you’re doing programming.

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