Across the courtroom, Mr. Motassadeq, a 30-year-old Moroccan who came to Germany in 1993 as an engineering student, listened impassively.
So when Bill Gates calls for targeted investment in science and engineering, people listen.
In the brothers' telling of the tale, they arrived at their sound through pure reverse engineering, growing up listening to the generation of musicians making what could be broadly described as post-2-step, and then working their way backward.
Then there are the intangibles, like eating in the Twitter cafeteria, pitching the apps the students built to Twitter's engineering team and listening to notable female executives talk about what it was like to be the only girl in their computer science classes.
The group of about 10 young building-inspectors-to-be tromped across the campus of Tribhuvan University's engineering school Friday, listening to tips from their professors about how to assess whether a building cracked by Nepal's giant earthquake was safe.
It's basically designed to help provide a basic, effective grounding on which to build an Alexa-capable product, so that hardware makers don't have to worry about engineering the listening and recognition engineering capabilities themselves.
As is invariably the case with audio equipment, the proof is not so much in the engineering as in the listening.
Guy taught me that – I wasn't listening in engineering class!" But to turn a beautiful prototype into a working piece of kit without big-money backers was a steep learning curve.
I read books, combed the internet, watched documentaries on the rainforest and genetic engineering, and even listened to 'sounds of the rainforest' tracks while I wrote".
One of the aims of this endeavour is to offer engineering students with strategies in listening to and learning from lectures effectively.
