I set out to create chips that used low-energy technology, and that has allowed me to develop devices that can do all their data crunching on site.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices.
I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.
Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.
We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.
It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices.
Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.
When we started out, you could design a chip with a few guys in a basement.
What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.
I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.
The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.