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OCTOBER 3, 2023

With a doctorate in geophysics, Schneider has been helping to make the invisible visible for scientists and engineers for almost three decades at Scientific American , American Scientist , and for the last 15 years, IEEE Spectrum. He notes that his exoplanet detector , which he made back in 2014, still impresses him almost a decade on.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

I started indulging in my hobby of building robots, and subsequently met up with other like-minded people at the Silicon Valley Home Brew Robotics Club. One of the first people I met at the club was Bob Allen, an electronics engineer who had a machine shop in his garage and could make amazing mechanical things. Then came the hard part.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Peter Kovatchev was a naval engineer who raised his son, Boris, as a problem solver, and who built model ships with his granddaughter, Anna. He passed away from diabetes-related complications in 2002. In each of these approaches, modeling work went far to create the conceptual background for building an artificial pancreas.

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