Other areas: optical components (Cambridge is one of the leading optical universities in the world) and wireless hardware and software.
The main take-away: He thinks that the interest in the hack points to the disconnect between the web development world and the hardware hacking world — and that developers are always eager to find exciting ways to bridge the two.
Born in Brooklyn, and raised in the affluent New York suburb of Scarsdale, he evinces a streetwise style that has more in common with New York's garment district (his father, Sanford Brass, was one of the inventors of Supp-Hose hosiery) than with Silicon Valley's world of software and hardware engineers.
When it launched in early 2017, Silicon Valley startup Aurora outlined a mission to deliver the benefits of self-driving quickly and safely around the world with software and hardware capable of full autonomy.
While Musk made his early fortune in the virtual worlds of on-line finance (notably PayPal), if there's a theme behind nearly every one of his myriad companies today, it is an unabashed, full-throttle run at the fly-over world of atoms and hardware.
Imagination is certainly not the first to come up with an IoT dev kit aiming to help developers straddle the wirelessly linked worlds of software and hardware.
It's an inspiring story to see someone pursuing a dream of invention like this from such an early age, especially a young woman, of which there is far too small a number in the worlds of engineering and hardware startups.
Booz Allen is one of many companies that make up the digital spine of the intelligence world, designing the software and hardware systems on which the N.S.A. and other military and intelligence agencies depend.
You could say that the world of hardware and atoms, instead of software and bits, is pretty much its own kind of "fly over country" for the titans of Silicon Valley.
Yes, the USA has a couple of literal millennials – snowboarders Chloe Kim and Hailey Langland were born in 2000 and already have plenty of X Games and World Cup hardware.
