Engineering + Technology
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.
Tammy Ma Is Trying to Make Fusion Energy Real
the Livermore physicist’s path from a Caltech summer internship to leading the national effort on inertial fusion energy.
What Actually Works in AI: A Candid Assessment from Five Techers
Caltech alumni cut through the hype to share which tools are delivering real results, and where human expertise remains irreplaceable.
Starman: A New Documentary About JPL’s Gentry Lee and the Search for Life Beyond Earth
A film about one of NASA’s most accomplished engineers is also a love letter to curiosity, ambiguity, and the planet we already have.
The Caltech Engineer Who Made Half the World’s Drumsticks
How David Crocker (BS ’77) revolutionized drumstick manufacturing at Vic Firth.