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Carol Bartz
Learning from Failure Carol Bartz BA1971 lives her business career by what she calls the three Fs: Fail. Fast. Forward. “Accept failure and learn from it,” Bartz told graduates at UW–Madison’s 2012 commencement. “Failure, especially... Read more »
Gene Amdahl
Amdahl Helped Launch the Computer Age Gene Amdahl MS1949, PhD1952’s childhood lessons came in a one-room South Dakota school that lacked electricity. From that beginning to an eye-catching UW graduate school stint and a fabled... Read more »
John Atanasoff
Creativity unlocked in a wild winter ride Faced with performing a ton of time-consuming equations for his doctoral thesis at UW-Madison in 1930, John Atanasoff used a clunky analog computing machine, but he felt there... Read more »