Have you ever heard of Raye Montague? Like most people, I hadn’t either- not until I read her obituary. What she did was amazing. During the Vietnam War, the Navy spent 2 years unsuccessfully trying to create a computer program to design ships. Raye was charged with completing that task in 6 months. [She said Read the full article…
Dr. Laura Esserman, Director of the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center is a physician, researcher, and innovator who is changing the future of treatment for breast cancer. With her combination of brains, passion, tenacity, empathy and energy- she’s unstoppable. I originally met Laura through Jeff Pfeffer, Professor of Organization Behavior at Stanford’s Graduate Read the full article…
When I ask someone -who is Helen Greiner?- the response is usually a blank stare. Helen who? OK- have you heard of Roomba? Now that’s a familiar name. Well, Helen Greiner is the woman behind that invention. It is just one of the products produced by iRobot, the company she co-founded in 1990. Other household-friendly Read the full article…
When I challenge audiences to respond, they struggle a while and then usually respond with “Madame Curie”. In Silicon Valley, someone occasionally mentions Grace Hopper. And then- they get stuck. You have probably heard of Watson & Crick- who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the DNA molecule. But did you know that x-ray diffractions Read the full article…