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Life after the uniform: helping veterans when their tour of duty is complete
It was one of those moments when life seems to both speed up and slow down almost to a standstill. Solaire Brown, suited up in heavy gear, braced herself inside the specialized mine-resistant vehicle where she was training with her fellow US Marines. The vehicles are built to withstand improvised explosive devices and save military lives. But sometimes, when struck, they roll over. The Marine Corps requires extensive training on how to escape if a vehicle flips in an explosion.
Family matters: for three siblings, a teasing rivalry gave way to camaraderie at the same company
Two brothers sat at their Commodore 64, eyes fixated on the screen. Fifteen-year-old Aydin Aslaner had caught computer fever; as he showed his 2-year-old brother Milad Aslaner what the magical, boxy, beige machine with the black and green screen was all about, Milad got hooked, too. “I literally could not go to school some days because I loved our computer so much,” said Aydin.
When dreams become (augmented) reality: preserving Australia's Indigenous cultures
Chapter 4: Preserving hope That evening after the conference, Dickens walked up to Jade. “Hi! I’m Tianji Dickens, and I work with Microsoft. We would love to have your help in developing our Reconciliation Action Plan.” Dickens also asked Jade if there were any Microsoft products that she’d be interested in working with. “Here I was, ready to give up,” Jade remembered. “And along comes Tianji with energy and resources.
At the largest private hackathon on the planet, Microsoft employees fire up ideas by the thousands
On July 23, Mendez Gandica’s team will join thousands of other Microsoft employees and interns all over the world as they gather to form the largest private global hackathon. They’ll work across organizations and technologies, and some will collaborate with students, teachers, and people who work at nonprofits to solve problems and advance ideas. Mendez Gandica might not have had the same opportunity to jump-start a passion project like this five years ago, on her own time and resources.
Deep learning: to become a leader in AI, Ozge Yeloglu first had to figure out how to believe in herself
I had to learn the business side of things. A data scientist with generic data science knowledge is not that useful if one doesn’t have the business context. I was working with our sales teams, getting to know our customers and their needs. It was great to be working with people so closely, like I’d done as CEO of my own company. Two years into the role, I started getting curious about doing more. I told my manager that if there was an opportunity to grow the team, I’d love to be a manager.
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