Rogelio Garcia was seven when he first took apart the family radio. He didn’t do it to break anything. He did it because he needed to know what was happening inside the box that made his mother’s favorite station play every morning. By the time he had it back together — mostly working, save for […]
Features September 2026
Mandy Terrill – University of California, San Francisco
Est. reading time: 5 mins
In 2019, a cyberattack rattled the University of California, San Francisco, exposing just how vulnerable even the most sophisticated research institutions can be. For most people outside the walls of academic IT, that kind of event might have faded into memory. For Mandy Terrill, it became the starting point of a mission. Hired a few […]
Bob Whitlock – The Belt Railway Company of Chicago
Est. reading time: 5 mins
Bob Whitlock was standing in a friend’s kitchen in Iowa, nowhere near a classroom, when he picked up a stack of paper he was never supposed to be able to read. It was a mainframe listing, dense with code, sitting on the table while his friend prepared for an accelerated computer programming course. Whitlock had […]
