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* Went to U of Oregon, transferred to UC Berkeley. Lived overseas for several years, came back to work in tech. Went to Boston University to get a PhD in Neural Networks. Worked as a quant, then a researcher at Intel, then founding startups ever since.
* Was a consulting Professor at Stanford CS for 7 years. Got too busy doing startups.
* Published 2 books, many papers and patents.
* Started OpenCV.org, the Open Source Computer Vision Library which now gets 2M downloads/week.
* Led the computer vision team on Stanley, the car that won the DARPA Grand Challenge and started the autonomous driving industry.
* Helped found VideoSurf which sold to Microsoft in 2005, Industrial perception that sold to Google in 2013, and Arraiy that's sold to Matterport in 2019.
* Now starting Farm-ng.com -- automating intensive, regenerative organic agriculture. We have an experimental farm, 11 acres, 10 minutes from Santa Cruz.