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Bookshare International’s Viji Dilip Profiled in Magazine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Washington Square Magazine, which is published by Viji’s alma matter San Jose State University, included a profile of Viji in their most recent issue. After receiving an MBA and CPA from San Jose State in 1995, and working for Hewlett-Packard and several tech startups, Viji received an unexpected diagnosis from her doctor.

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Build great companies, then help build a great world

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The San Jose Mercury News just published my op-ed today entitled Build great companies, then help build a great world. Perhaps, but when you use your heart, you don't have to check your brain at the door. I'm putting the text of the op-ed below: Silicon Valley has become rich by selling our products around the world.

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This former Tesla CIO just raised $150 million more to pull car dealers into the 21st century

TechCrunch

“I have to choose my words carefully,” says Joe Castelino of Stevens Creek Volkswagen in San Jose, California, when asked about the management software on which most car dealerships rely for inventory information, marketing, customer relationships and more. Yet he learned plenty over the subsequent four years.

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Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia team up to develop next-generation supercomputers for cars

The Verge

The new platform will be based on Nvidia’s system-on-a-chip Orin technology and will also use the San Jose-based company’s full Drive AGX software stack. The German automaker said it plans to begin rolling out the new technology across its fleet starting in 2024.

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New Years Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals: 2023

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In I continue to serve on the advisory board of Leadership Learning Community and Wake.

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The secrets of the first real smartphone, with Dieter Bohn

The Verge

John Fort, who has been on Decoder , he’s now an anchor at CNBC , he was a cub reporter at the San Jose Mercury News at the time, and Springboard is full of clips of his byline as a newspaper reporter. His real interest is in brain research and trying to figure out how neuroscience and the brain works.

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Please Don't Send Me to My Personal Webpage

Museum 2.0

There were many intriguing exhibits and a novel cellphone game (more on that in another post), but I was particularly interested in their new special exhibition on the brain. The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade.