Category: Mentors

IEEE Hosts Three Silicon Valley Historic Events – Part 2

There is something special about a sunny spring morning in Palo Alto. It makes you feel like anything is possible. On this memorable day of anniversary we heard from many people who acted on what’s achievable over the course of their careers.

The second day of the recent events to honor Silicon Valley history “A Celebration of 50 Years of the Internet” took place at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel in Palo Alto on Sunday May 19, 2024.

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IEEE Hosts Three Silicon Valley Historic Events – Part 1

Last month Brian Berg, IEEE History Committee Vice Chair, IEEE Milestone Coordinator, and IEEE Region 6 History Chair, invited me to attend and photograph three events to honor six new IEEE Milestones and the 50th Anniversary of the Internet. The events included:

– The Office of the Future: 3 IEEE Milestones Honoring SRI and Its Xerox PARC Heritage

– A Celebration of 50 Years of the Internet

– IEEE Milestone Celebration: TCP, 802 Standards, and Google

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Dialog and Roger Summit: Career Bedrock

A recent first post-COVID Dialog reunion has created a flurry of communication, activity and appreciation. As my colleague, Suzy Trigonis, said on social media, “25 years ago, most of Dialog’s employees left with lots of tears & hugs as the company was purchased & moved to North Carolina. We vowed to keep in touch … and we did.” The guest of honor was Roger Summit, founder, President and CEO of Dialog. Here is my appreciation.

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A Photographers Tips for Zoom (WebEx, GoTo) Meetings

I’ve been incredibly lucky to have had several wonderful mentors in my experiences with photography. When I was about 14 or 15, my friend’s father recognized my interest and actually offered me paid work!

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Toughest Teacher Paves Career Path

We’ve all had teachers like this. Fierce reputation. Toughest teacher in the school. Or, maybe later, a professor. “You’ll never get an A.” “Will try to intimidate you.” “Very demanding.” These or similar comments were often heard from fellow students.

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All Work and No Play?

At this point, it would be reasonable to say I was a very dull boy. Library research, culturally based school trips, debate team – not exactly the fun stuff of the early teenage years. However, there were other interests, much more fun things, that also took root during the Junior High School years.

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Tom Seaver: A Personal Hero

I’ve never been a real Mets fan. As a lifelong Yankee, this doesn’t usually happen. But I am a huge Tom Seaver fan. When Seaver won the Rookie of the Year award in 1967 he was the first good thing that happened to the Mets. Yankee fans were not impressed when a team loses 547 games in their first five years.

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Higher Truth and How to Get There

For hundreds of years, scholars have viewed formal debate as fundamental to participatory or representative government. Yet, observers of the last decade or so, would have a hard time recognizing virtue in what passes as debate in many government bodies. Things have become so polarized and divisive that finding synergy in viewing broader ideas seems to have passed forever.

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A Mentor in Junior High School?

When people think or talk about formative experiences, they are usually from high school, college, or maybe the early childhood years. For some, junior high school turns out to be the most crucial time in terms of events that define what we become.

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