Carolina Parada
If you say this phrase to wake up your Android assistant, you are using voice search technology that Parada helped develop.
What is "Ok, Google?"
He holds three of the original nine patents for this tech giant's first Personal Computer released in 1981.
What is IBM?
Diaz spent over 20 years at this mobile chip giant, where he eventually became the VP of Engineering for XR Research.
What is Qualcomm?
Dr. Croak is best known for pioneering VoIP, which stands for this method of making voice calls over the internet.
What is Voice over Internet Protocol?
Over her career, Marian Rogers Croak has amassed a staggering total of more than 200 of these legal protections for her inventions. Legal protections for inventors are known as what?
What are patents?
Parada served as the Head of Robotics for this specialized AI subsidiary of Google, famous for its Gemini models.
What is Google DeepMind?
Together with Dennis Moeller, Dean invented this system bus (ISA), which allowed printers, monitors, and disk drives to plug directly into the computer. **Hint: What does ISA stand for?**
What is Industry Standard Architecture?
In 2007, Diaz founded Qualcomm’s first project in AR, which stands for this type of technology that overlays digital data onto the real world.
What is Augmented Reality?
Dr. Croak currently works as a Vice President of Engineering at this tech giant, where she leads the center for Responsible AI.
What is Google?
Carolina Parada specialized in audio recognition at Google, helping develop the software that identifies this ambient, entertainment media without you typing a lyric.
What is music (or song)?
Before returning to robotics, she spent two years leading the camera perception team for self-driving cars at this computer graphics and chip corporation.
What is Nvidia?
Thanks to Dean's work developing early adapter hardware, computer users could finally look at these instead of monochrome screens.
What are color monitors (or color displays)?
CNET en Español recognized this Mexico-born engineer as one of the 20 most influential tech figures belonging to this demographic group.
What is Latino (or Hispanic)?
to keep voice data clear over a congested internet, she created a "VIP tagging" system to give priority to voice packets, a method known by this 3-letter acronym. Partial Answer begins with "Quality of ________"
What is Quality of Service or QoS?
In 1997, Mark Dean became the first person of color to lead this IBM facility, located in the capital of Texas. What is the name of the capital of Texas?
What is Austin?
Parada moved from this South American country to the US to pursue her engineering degrees at the University of Washington and Johns Hopkins.
What is Venezuela?
In 1995, Dean became the first African American to be named an IBM what, the company’s highest technical honor? Partial Answer: What is an IBM ______? (**Hint: another word for friend that starts with an f. )
What is an IBM Fellow?
Diaz helped make 3D immersive digital environments possible for multisensory headsets like the VR headsets used in many homes today. What is it called?
What is the Meta Quest?
She spent over three decades filing patents and advancing digital telecommunications at this iconic research organization alongside AT&T.
What is Bell Labs?
To give users a sense of depth in VR, Serafin Diaz developed tech that tracks spatial rotation alongside these three directional lines from a starting point. It is the three directions or axes of 3D programming.
What are axes (or X, Y, and Z axes)?
In interviews, Parada often credits her childhood fascination with robotics to "Robotina," the robot maid from this classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon from your grandparents era with robots and people living in the future on Earth.
What is the Jetsons?
In 1999, Dean led the Austin Research Lab team that built the first processor chip to reach this milestone speed—performing one billion calculations per second.
What is one gigahertz (1 GHz)?
Diaz served as the VP of XR at this wireless enterprise company co-founded by former Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs.
What is XCOM Labs?
She patented a text-to-donate system that famously raised $43 million in relief funds following a devastating 2010 earthquake in this Caribbean nation.
What is Haiti?
Marian Rogers Croak holds a Ph.D. in quantitative analysis and social psychology from this New Jersey Ivy League institution. (**Hint: This University starts with the letter P.)
What is Princeton?