Cybersecurity
Stanford Class Challenges Students to Pick Defense Over Google
Steve Blank leads a class that seeks to harness the speed and flexibility of Silicon Valley to help the military thwart tech-savvy adversaries.
Team AquaLink at the Hacking for Defense class at Stanford.
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Sam Gussman arrived four years ago at Stanford University hoping to eventually parlay an engineering degree into a product manager job at Google or Facebook Inc.
Working for the National Security Agency or other intelligence bureaus never crossed his mind. For Gussman, the government didn’t seem like the the place for the most exciting, cutting-edge research in human computer interaction -- his area of interest. Plus, it did no on-campus recruiting, unlike the many tech startups that e-mailed him daily about job opportunities and happy hours.