A MAGAZ INE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SEPTEMBER ISSUE, 2022 MAIA ZINE ® SUCCESSFUL STARTUP CEO’s GIVE YOU T I P S O N T U R N I N G Y O U R T E C H I D E A S I N T O A B U S I N E S S Advice from: Imperial College London ON COMPUTING APPLICATIONS WHAT WAS IT WAS LIKE WORKING DURING THE TECH REVOLUTION IN SILICON VALLEY WITH PEOPLE LIKE STEVE JOBS? Why study Entrepreneurship?
FEATURES CONTENTS CEO SPOTLIGHT: SID SATISH How he went from application developer to VP of Innovation and his advice for you. CEO SPOTLIGHT: DEVI SAHNY How she used tech to build a million dollar tutoring company and her advice for you. CEO SPOTLIGHT: ROHAN MONGA How he helped a food delivery app become a Decacorn and his advice for you. SPOTLIGHTS UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MCPHS BOCCONI UNIVERSITY GEORGETOWN QATAR LEIDEN UNIVERSITY DICKINSON UNIVERSITY RUTGERS UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ROOSEVELT SHL LUCERNE IE UNIVERSITY BISHOPS UNIVERSITY BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY EHL BUSINESS SCHOOL PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY PEOPLE 74 PHIL ROYBAL Silicon Valley veteran talks about the changes in the tech industry, working at Hewlett Packard and Apple, and what it was like working with Steve Jobs. 42 GRACE HOPPER This woman is a legend in the tech industry, and programmers today stand on the legacy of her work. Find out why. TIPS Imperial College London tells you what they are looking for in students applying to computing courses. 68 Want to start your own tech startup? Learning more about entrepreneurship and competitions for you 70 4 14 18 22 28 32 36 38 46 50 54 62 64 74 MaiaZine is published by MaiaLearning, Inc. Address comments to MaiaZine@maialearning.com
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Meet the founder of GAUSS SURGICAL Sid Satish turned his idea for technology to improve the safety of women in childbirth into a multi-million dollar business. As a kid, Sid loved Lego, science fairs, and working on projects. His parents supported him by giving him early access to computers and software, and an uncle encouraged him too. “My uncle was a cool and super techy guy who helped me build an earthquake alarm.” So it was no surprise that Sid always wanted to study engineering and went on to study Chemical Engineering at UC Berkeley. Although not a medical student, as part of his graduate work in the UC Berkeley Master of Translational Medicine program, he got to watch surgery for the first time. As part of his degree, he had to complete a team-based capstone project. Sid and a While the rest of us were watching funny cat videos on our mobile devices, Sid Satish was figuring out how to use their cameras and combine this with computer vision algorithms to save lives. Here’s his story and advice to you. couple of fellow students were paired with a doctor to generate ideas to solve real-world medical problems. Sid was fascinated by what he saw in the operating rooms, and his curious nature kicked in. Sid and his group began researching healthcare. He found out that in most of the world death from childbirth was going down, but in the USA it was rising due to complications due to hemorrhaging. “I started following two really great urologists around in operating rooms, asking a lot of questions.” This is when he realized how hard it was for medical professionals to accurately calculate blood loss in the operating room. “As I spoke to more doctors and nurses, it became clear this was an unmet medical need. The technology to combat this didn’t yet exist.” Sid believes viewing the situation with fresh eyes was an advantage. “I think I recognized the need in part because I wasn’t in medicine.” After he and other students pulled out their iPhones and started taking photos of the scrub tech’s instrument table, Sid asked himself “what if an app could remove the guesswork from surgical blood loss?” It was the right question. Sid’s fellow students and mentors completed prototyping and proof-of-concept work in 2011. They then decided that they had a great idea and believed in it enough to form a company: Gauss Surgical. However, the other two students went on to further studies, so Sid found himself in charge of starting up this new company. Three faculty members stayed on as mentors, and his father was also an important source of encouragement. “Dad mentored me greatly on the tech side.” Triton in use in the operating room
Sid also convinced Milt McColl, a very experienced medical device entrepreneur whom he had met, to sign on as first CEO of the company. This allowed Sid to build his vision for the technology, and he named the product Triton. “Mentorship is super helpful because you don’t need to continually discover everything on your own. Going to them with questions allowed me to think with a level of sophistication about the business that I didn’t have. I was leveraging their experience.” Sid tirelessly took part in pitching, talking to angel investors in bio design, questioning advisors, and hiring staff. To do this, he drew on his previous experience in a business plan competition. In his senior year at university, Sid applied his work on computational fluid dynamics to optimize the amount of whitening fluid for each tooth by creating personalized tooth whitening trays. Although Sid won this business plan competition, he realized he wasn’t passionate enough about the idea. But it was invaluable in preparing him for this next step of founding Gauss Surgical. From a little business incubator space in a building in Palo Alto, Sid worked hard to raise funding. He admits to having no money, and often “pulling all-nighters at the office.” He also found out how hard it is to get medical tech approval from the Food and Drug Administration in the USA. However, he kept pushing, and in a short space of time Sid had raised millions and was winning awards. In 2018, he won the Apple Design Award. “We initially used the iPad as a user interface and ran the algorithms on a server. Now the product runs on an iPad Pro with an infrared sensor and processes all images on the iPad itself.” In the same year he was named as one of the “30 under 30” in Healthcare by Forbes. In 2021, Sid sold Gauss Surgical to Stryker, a leading med tech company. “It was a privilege to build Gauss Surgical with a dream team, investors, and customers, but I knew a company like Stryker could take this product to a new level.” Sid is now VP of Innovation at Stryker. Sid has some tips for young people wanting to start a tech business. (Continued on page 12) Above and right: Triton in action in the operating room. Courtesy of Gauss
1. Get started - do it! One of the most rewarding experiences you can have is to start something new. You don’t need to wait until you have several degrees and lots of industry experience. Don’t let your inexperience stop you from starting something, but seek the experience of others early and often. Get as much experiential learning as you can. 2: Look to meet a need Focusing on a need that must be solved is much more important than the “invention” you may think you have. Rather than looking at tech in purely business terms, look at challenges we are facing and think of how tech can be used to solve them. 3: Ask lots of questions I was curious, and I started with a lot of naive questions. But I didn't let that worry me. If you ask questions, you will continue learn, and you will begin to ask better ones. 4: Research the market Do some work to understand and articulate this. Focus on the big picture and look for indicators that show you have an idea with commercial potential. Get validation from conversations with industry professionals. 5: Work on communication As a founder you’re going to have to get up and pitch your company. For me, debate in high school was a major step in developing my communication skills. A tech idea doesn’t end when you compile your code. It’s no good having an amazing invention if you can’t articulate your vision to others. 6: Learn how to network With ideas from class projects, do pitch competitions and business competitions. Schools and colleges often have these programs. Make connections from those. Get emails through startup fairs and list servers from the uni. Ask professors to make intros for you. Warm introductions are much better, but don’t be afraid to cold call. Stay in touch with people you meet. 7: Find great mentors Mentorship is super important because you learn faster from the mistakes and advice of others. Mentors helped me understand how the venture capital world works, that there are different phases of a company, and how each phase requires you to evolve as a leader. 8: Find balance Family, fun and travel can be sucked into the black hole of a startup. You have to find balance. You don’t have to work yourself to death. Yes, there are periods where you don’t take vacation time for a year, but you do need to be sure to take moments. I began to schedule something every quarter. Once I had wrapped up board results, I would take some time off. SID’S ADVICE FOR YOUNG FOUNDERS
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At University College Roosevelt you get an education built around you. You create your own program by choosing courses from nearly for ty disciplines. From Ar t Histor y to Life Science and from Economics to Robotics, there is always a combination that will suit you. In and outside your classes you interact with engaged professors and motivated students. Our tight-knit community enables you to find and explore your passions and interests while enjoying a wonderful student life in Middelburg, the Netherlands. Project: Developing an artificial esophagus Someone close to me has been suffering from cancer. I’ve been wanting to ease their pain for a long time , and am using my knowledge of Biomedical & Life Science combined with Material Science to develop an ar tificial esophagus. I’m looking forward to seeing this improve the situation for real life patients. Project: Is this painting real? At University College Roosevelt I was able to combine my passion for Ar t Histor y with my interest in Material Science and Engineering. For my final Research Project, I wanted to tackle a real world problem. I’m using the electromicroscope to investigate pigments in old paintings to tr y and determine whether these pigments would have been used at the time . This can help identify fakes. ARTS & HUMANITIES Antiquity & Archaeology Ar t Histor y Film, Theater and Media Studies Histor y Linguistics Literature Musicology Music Performance Philosophy Religious Studies Rhetoric & Argumentation ENGINEERING Data Sciece & Ar tificial Intelligence Electronics Energy and Flow Sustainable Materials Interdisciplinar y Projects SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Economics Human Geography Law Politics and International Relations Psychology Research Methodology & Statistics Sociology SCIENCE Biomedical Science Chemistr y Cognitive Science Computer Science Ear th Science Environmental Science Life Science Mathematics Physics Premedical Program Discover your passions, build your own curriculum, choose from the following: www.ucr.nl/ucr-101 Become par t of a close-knit community of 600 students and 80 faculty Put together your own curriculum from close to 40 different disciplines Live in guaranteed and affordable housing for the duration of your studies Join a highly international university (65%) with more than 60 nationalities Explore what Middelburg, the Netherlands and Europe have to offer “ “ Project: Get the best food I’ve been working on finding ways to use drones to improve all kinds of agricultural processes. Think about checking fruit quality while it is still on the tree , but also being able to strategically put pesticides only on the plants that need it. My project incorporates aspects of Motion Planning, Computer Science , Ar tificial Intelligence and Robotics, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. I also need to consider Economics and Ethics as technological development influences real people and society. “
first electromechanical computer in the USA. It weighed 9,000 pounds and had over 750,000 relays, switches, and control circuits, connected with 500 miles of wire. It was the first computer that could solve any arbitrary mathematical problem. It could do three additions per second. Young Lieutenant Hopper was one of its first programmers, making top secret calculations to help with ballistic calibrations. She wrote the user manual for the Mark I computer. Coders in those days worked with ones and zeros, The gutted clock lay on its face, guts strewn across the table. The girl puzzled at the intricate pieces, meshing them together, trying to understand how they worked to tell time. Grace loved taking things apart. Grace Hopper (née Murray) grew up in New York City, just a few years after its residents got electricity. Fascinated by technical things, she applied to Vassar at 16 but was rejected for poor grades in Latin. Undeterred, she applied again a year later, was accepted, and earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics. Grace went on to earn a masters degree and then a PhD in mathematics from Yale. She taught at Vassar while she worked on her Ph.D. In 1943, Grace joined the Naval Reserves and was assigned to the Ordinance Computation Project at Harvard. She was part of a team working with a newly designed IBM computer called the Mark I. It was the punching holes in cards or paper tape to indicate operations to be performed and the data involved. Programs were designed for specific machines, and coding was tedious and error prone. Grace was frustrated as her team struggled to produce calculations essential to the war effort. She felt there had to be a better way. When the war ended, Grace left the Navy to join the Eckert-Mauchly Corporation. Their engineers were designing the first electronic computer. It was called the UNIVAC 1. As Director of Programming Research, she developed her breakthrough idea. Hopper believed programs could be written in plain language that people could read and then translated into Grace Hopper A legendary computer pioneer the code a target machine needed. Tested pieces of code could be saved in libraries and then linked together as needed. The translator which would do this, a program itself, was called a “compiler”. In 1952, Grace wrote the A-0 (Arithmetic Language version 0) System, one of the first compilers, which translated mathematical formulae into machine-readable code. She built upon her experience to later help develop COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), which became the dominant language for business applications and is still used today. Her work made computers accessible to people without engineering or math backgrounds. The Navy recalled Grace to active duty in 1967 to serve as Director of the Navy Programming Languages Group. She was promoted to Captain in 1973, and retired in 1986 as a Rear Admiral, the oldest serving officer in the Navy. Grace Hopper was a trailblazer. One of her favorite quotes was, “a ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things.” She received over 40 honorary degrees and numerous recognitions including the National Medal of Technology and (posthumously) the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the USA’s highest civilian honor. As a role model for women and minorities in maledominated fields, Grace Hopper encouraged risk taking. This is why she is still often referred to as “Amazing Grace.” Paper tape program for the Mark I Unknown Photographer (Smithsonian Institution) - Flickr: Grace Hopper and UNIVAC
How Hospitality Management Students learn to apply Technology in Product and Service Personalisation and to drive Innovation Technology in hospitality management education – it all starts with a digital mindset ” ”
Maria Ramstad Kristiansen is Head of Marketing & Student Recruitment at SHL Schweizerische Hotelfachschule Luzern, Switzerland. SHL is one of the two original Hotel Management Schools in Switzerland and offers one of the only two Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management degrees in Switzerland accredited by the Swiss federal government and in compliance with the Bologna Declaration, as well as the regarded Swiss Diploma Dipl. Hoteliere-Gastronomin / Hotelier-Gastronom HF. delivers actionable insights that come from various types of guest and customer interaction. Virtual reality, recognition technology, augmented reality offer endless opportunities for innovation Technology offers an endless arsenal of tools and concepts for innovation and to stay relevant in business. In a fast-paced digital world, one of the most challenging questions is how to turn the future into reality by delivering real value to customers and guests. Hospitality students don’t need to be tech wizards. They learn to orchestrate people, teams, organisations and technologies and to create cultures that drive innovation. A hospitality business management degree does not only impart future managers, leaders and entrepreneurs with a multifaceted set of hard and soft skills, but also advances highly valuable business capabilities in digitalization and technology. Learning new technological skills is essential, but it all starts with having a digital mindset. Hospitality students are trained with a set of attitudes and behaviours enabling them to understand how technologies open vast opportunities and how to create a continuous learning environment. They develop an understanding of change being a constant which impacts organisations, companies, teams, people’s competencies and how the digitally driven world alters guests’ and customers’ needs and expectations as well as the customer journey. Small data management experts Big data seems to have become the new currency in business. Spending so much time searching for significant data and insights, often leads to the most valuable data being forgotten- the data from various small data resources In today’s world, many services and products are already delivered by apps, ServiceRobots, applications, systems and platforms controlled and automated by artificial intelligence (AI) and driven by advanced analytics. Various touchpoints and physical spaces, where guest and customer interactions take place, will be increasingly digitized and transformed. Technology in hospitality education starts with a digital mindset Hospitality students gain a professional understanding how to utilize small and big data, analytics and how organisations are challenged by a world of algorithms, cloud, AI, and various other technologies and concepts. How technology is shaping classroom of the future Technology is shaping classrooms fundamentally in terms of how students learn, as well as what they learn. The future classroom will be a world full of new learning practices, where the impact of digitalization on what students learn will be significant. In the highly competitive hospitality sector, technology is essential for all companies operating in the industry. Students study the latest technology trends, how to develop strategies and concepts and how to select and implement digital tools and solutions for a specific business environment. Globally recognised as the leader in service personalisation Personalisation is a powerful concept. According to Forbes Magazine (forbes.com). 80% of consumers are more likely to purchase from a brand that provides personalised experiences. If one sector is globally recognised as the leader in personalised guest services and experiences, it’s the hospitality industry. Technology and digitalization open the door to new opportunities for attractive concepts of personalisation throughout the entire physical and virtual customer journey. shl.ch info.shl.ch/hospitality/bachelor More about SHL and the Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management In many cases, small data drives innovation and creativity by seemingly observing customer and guest behaviour and paying attention to details in daily business. Hospitality students not only learn to manage big and small data, but also to drive innovation. ‘83% of consumers are willing to share their data to create a more a personalized experience.’ - Accenture ” ”
Our Pillars TECHNOLOGICAL IMMERSION AND A CULTURE OF INNOVATION At IE University our students are immersed in a technologically innovative environment, preparing them to take a leadership role in the modern world ’s new digitally transformed landscape. ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET IE University breeds entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, creating an ecosystem that expands far beyond the confines of the campus, where students and graduates can grow and develop their innovative startups. THE LENS OF THE HUMANITIES IE University understands the Humanities are key in understanding the reality of our world, applying key critical-thinking skills to complex, global challenges. A DIVERSE EXPERIENCE Diversity is at the heart of who we are. Our rich mix of nationalities, ideas and perspectives make up the fabric of IE University. With students, graduates and professors from more than 160 countries, our campus is a truly international hub. DISCOVER MORE We train the future, the future is yours IE UNIVERSITY IS AN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTION WITH A PRACTICE-BASED APPROACH THAT GOES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM WALLS IE University is an international institution with a practice-based approach that goes beyond the classroom walls. Based in Spain, IE University has an urban campus in Madrid and a historic and cultural campus in Segovia. Our programs are taught in English, though students also have the opportunity to learn Spanish with their peers. The student body is made up of over 130 nationalities, opening doors to exchange programs at one of our 160 partner universities around the world. IE University occupies a leading position among higher education institutions in Europe and worldwide for its excellence in innovation and learning technologies. We offer a wide range of diverse programs, including Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Data & Business Analytics, Business, Communication & Digital Media, Law, Architecture, and more, as well as seven dual-degree programs. CHECK OUT OUR VIRTUAL CAMPUS TOURS QS World University Ranking 2023 University in Europe #6 University Worldwide #19 International students #5 TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION Global University Employability Ranking 2021 University in Spain #1 Rocio Gonzalez Bachelor in Data and Business Analytics student One of the things I love most about studying at IE University is that we have the chance to meet so many people from around the world. In the field of technology, I think that this diversity is especially important because we always need new mindsets, new ways of thinking, and new ideas LEARN MORE IN OUR CAREER REPORT
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