Journeys of Innovation: Positively Connected

Marian Croak Each month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Journeys of Innovation series tells the stories of inventors or entrepreneurs whose groundbreaking innovations have made a positive difference in the world. A pioneer in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and the...

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Published in:Technology and innovation 2020-12, Vol.21 (4), p.1-4
Main Author: Emanuel, Lauren
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Careers
Collaboration
Innovations
Internet Protocol
Inventors
IP (Internet Protocol)
Reliability engineering
Text messaging
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Summary:Marian Croak Each month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Journeys of Innovation series tells the stories of inventors or entrepreneurs whose groundbreaking innovations have made a positive difference in the world. A pioneer in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and the inventor of text-to-donate technology, Croak holds more than 200 patents. [...]a vice president of engineering at Google, she focuses on reliability engineering to improve the performance of Google systems and services. There are a whole range of things that you can apply technology to help with, but just find the area that you're most inspired to keep going in, despite what may be hard days or hard moments or discouraging people in your life, that you know that, kind of uniquely, that you want to solve this problem, or you want to contribute to the solution of a problem.
ISSN:1949-8241
1949-825X
DOI:10.21300/21.3.2020.15