Magazine
Kitt Hodsden and the Art of Being Efficiently Lazy
How the software engineer turned a distaste for tedious tasks into a career building smarter workflows, scaling tech giants, and conquering personal summits.
“This Is Going to Be Really Big”: How Nvidia’s Bill Dally Shaped the AI Era
Bill Dally has spent four decades designing the hardware behind modern AI. The instinct came from Caltech: don’t do little things.
Photonics Is the Future: A Founder Reflects on Computing’s Light-Powered Promise
Tanmay Gupta (BS ’24) on why computing with light could let satellites process data in orbit instead of beaming terabytes back to Earth.
Caltech and Sophia Space Receive Patent for Passive-Cooling Orbital Data Centers
Caltech has patented a passive, solar-powered cooling system for running AI data centers in orbit, technology that traces to its Space-Based Solar Power Project.
News
Alan Lightman Calculates the Odds of Your Existence
Being alive at all, he writes in The Atlantic, is “the most extraordinary stroke of good luck any of us will ever experience.”
Around the Table, Around the World: Tables for Techers 2026
761 Techers shared meals, stories, and photos from a weekend of Caltech community.
At CAMP West LA, Techers Share Career Lessons Across Generations
Alumni mentors and Caltech students met in West Los Angeles for an afternoon of career conversations, shared experience, and perspective on life after Caltech.
Explore
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Techer Live

JPL and the Search for Life Beyond Earth
AUGUST 25, 2026 | ALUMNI NEWS, TECHER LIVE
Revisit Jonathan Lunine (MS ’83, PhD ’85) and Sarah Al-Ahmed’s conversation from JPL Mission Control on the missions advancing the search for life beyond Earth.

Einstein: beyond the Myth
APRIL 15, 2026 | ALUMNI NEWS, TECHER LIVE
A conversation with Caltech’s Diana Kormos-Buchwald and the LA Times’ Patt Morrison on Einstein’s Pasadena years and what his example might offer scientists today.

AI in the Wild: What Actually Works
FEB 12, 2026 | ALUMNI NEWS, TECHER LIVE
Caltech alumni cut through the hype to share which tools are delivering real results, and where human expertise remains irreplaceable.