Notes from two worlds — building data platforms at J.P. Morgan and governing a global robotics-education community. On leadership, AI adoption, failure, and the people behind the work.
Picture roughly 500 teams — kids from 40-plus countries, some of whom had been traveling for two days straight — standing in a check-in line instead of setting up their robots…
I had no idea what I was doing.
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After nearly two decades in the RoboCup community, I've witnessed thousands of young minds discover their passion for robotics, engineering, and collaboration. As a former par…
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Twenty-five years feels like a lifetime in technology, but for RoboCupJunior (RCJ), it's just the first chapter. Since its humble origins — a demonstrative event at RoboCup-98…
With Eguchi, Hughes & Shimizu (UCSD, Cambridge, Chukyo) — Stage 2 of the accepted RoboCup Federation proposal behind the RoboCupJunior Rescue Simulation league.
With Hughes, Eguchi, Visser & others — the original accepted RoboCup Federation proposal for an open-source RoboCupJunior Rescue Simulation sub-league.