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Intel Engineer Shares 4 Ways to Encourage Girls’ Interest in STEM - During Women’s History Month, and every day, we celebrate women whose work improves our lives and enables progress. Today, we are sharing one Intel employee’s journey and her advice for inspiring the next generation of female innovators. Dr. Arlyne Simon was born and raised in the Commonwealth of Dominica. Her mother, a teacher, and father...
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Intel Poland: Creating the voice-and vision-enabled assistive devices of the future - Learn how this software engineering manager and his team in Gdansk are using artificial intelligence to train your smart assistants to be smarter. Meet Grzegorz Nawrot, a software engineering manager in the Infrastructure and Platform Solutions Group (IPSG) at Intel Poland. He and his team are developing solutions for smart assistants for global vendors...
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How Childhood Curiosity Led These Intel Employees to Engineering - In celebration of National Engineers Week, Valerie, Martin, and Vanitha share the defining moments that inspired them to become engineers. Childhood is a time of curiosity, exploration, and discovery. It’s a time when everything seems possible. For most engineers, it’s this early wonderment that leads them to their profession—one that encapsulates unlimited possibility. Whether it’s...
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Interview with an Intern: Why Working at Intel Finland is a Great Way to Develop Your Career - An intern shares his experience and explains why anyone passionate about drone tech should pursue an internship at Intel. Meet Johannes Pirhonen. He loves photography, DIY electronics projects, freestyle skiing, and working on his old BMW. He also loves working with the newest technologies – and he had the chance to do just that as...
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My journey from exclusion to inclusion - Inclusion is important to Intel. By creating a respectful and inclusive workplace, we give every employee an opportunity to be heard in a safe space. We work proactively to be a diverse and inclusive workplace, including a strong and growing LGBT+ employee resource group. A program manager in our Human Resources department, CJ Dragen shares his experiences of exclusion and discrimination in the military to what...
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In Her Words: How a Trip to D.C. Brought a New Understanding of U.S. History - Chiao Alice Chang gained valuable insight after winning a visit from Intel during Black History Month 2019 to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. A native of Taiwan, Alice moved about two years ago to Santa Clara, Calif. She is a technology development module and integration yield engineer in the Non-Volatile Memory...
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Pre-Silicon Verification at Intel: Solving New Challenges in a Flexible, Supportive Work Culture - Meet Intel’s SoC Engineers in this blog series highlighting the talented team creating and testing the technology at the core of our products. When Sam Mattord graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012, he wanted two things—exciting work and stability. He found both when he joined Intel as an engineer focused on...
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An Interview with Intel Poland’s “Super Intern” - Imagine beginning as a summer intern and ending up as a speaker at an international developer’s conference. That’s just what one Intel intern did. Is a journey like that even possible? Turns out, it is. Especially when the summer intern shows passion, engagement, and a curious mind. That’s the case with Michal Paszkowski, a...
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The Coolest Part About Engineering at Intel? For Max, It’s Working on Products That Matter. - Meet Intel’s SoC Engineers in this blog series highlighting the talented team creating and testing the technology at the core of our products. Interested in a career as a Verification Engineer, check out these open positions. For Max Korbel, there’s nothing better than having a complex problem to solve. He loves digging in and finding...
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Building a Career in SoC: “As the Chips Grew, I Grew with Them” - Meet Intel’s SoC Engineers in this blog series highlighting the talented team creating and testing the technology at the core of our products. A little over 28 years ago, Prasanna Shah joined Intel’s rotation program as a new college graduate. He says it was sheer luck—and the help of a few mentors—that landed him in...
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Conquering the ‘Mother of All Relay Races’ – Blind - United in Stride, the first relay team of blind and visually impaired runners, make Hood to Coast history with the help of two Intel employees. An almost impossible feat Darryl Adams was a key member of a team that spent last weekend running 200 miles along the mountainous path from Mt. Hood to the Oregon...
Gladiators of Change: Through the Looking Glass of Global Diversity & Inclusion - Gladiators of Change: Through the Looking Glass of Global Diversity and Inclusion This blog was guest written by Nathalie Bulos, Joyce Weiner, and Sunita Utgikar. The business reasons for increasing diversity are well documented. According to research, nonhomogeneous teams are smarter than homogeneous ones1 and a diverse workforce generates more revenue and accelerates business ingenuity2. ...
Female Inventors Help Intel Receive Top 5 Ranking - By Vanessa Bailey, Global Director of Intellectual Property Policy, Intel In February 2019, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) published a report on female inventor participation. I am pleased to report that Intel ranked in the top 5 with respect to the number of women as participants in the patent inventor workforce (i.e....