Radia Perlman
Fellow , emerging technologies
“ I always loved logic puzzles and science , but I never was a hands-on , take-things-apart type person . With no particular planning on my part , I stumbled into the ideal job at the right time in history : routing architect for Digital Equipment Corporation , at the dawn of computer networks . The stuff I designed in the 1980s — spanning tree bridging , routing — still is widely deployed today .”
Ed Ward
President , client product group
“ My love for playing video games began when I was a kid , but I never had enough quarters to stay in the arcade . In high school , I was introduced to computers and learned they could be programmed to play video games for free ! I was inspired to learn to program , which led to my pursuit of computer science and engineering as a career .”
John Roese
Global CTO
“ New experiences inspire me . I lived on three continents before I was 7 , put technology in multiple spacecraft and went to Antarctica to discover a new emperor penguin rookery just for fun . My career has moved across almost every technology domain , from enterprise to telecom to semiconductor to security . This serves me well in making sense of emerging tech for Dell .”
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