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New Tesla Supercharger at IWL Scotts Valley

IWL has its offices at the Kings Village Center in Scotts Valley, California. This morning we noticed construction in the parking lot. A bit of inquiring revealed that Tesla is installing a new Supercharging station here in the Kings Village Center of Scotts Valley. Rumor is that it is one of the new Level 3 designs…

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Scott’s Rule of Documentation Efficiency

How well is the documentation for a product written? What is the measure of “documentation efficiency”? Given a problem with trying to use a product feature, what is the probability that you can find the answer to the problem by looking in the documentation, without having to search through stackoverflow? …

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Females In Robotics

This letter is a response to Tom Green’s article in the June 5, 2015 edition of Robotics Business Review: “Why are Too Few Females in Robotics? Could it Be the Robots?” I am female and I participated in the DARPA Robotics Finals. I was on the Degraded Communications team, a part of the infrastructure, not one of the robotics teams …

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My Dinner with Guido (of Python Fame)

At a recent dinner, I found myself seated next to Guido van Rossum. While Guido is best known as the author of the Python programming language, I found his views on the open source software movement and the role of women in the movement very enlightening! …

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