The chief engineer of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab shared his wisdom Aug. 1 at the Black Hat security conference here on the key steps and best practices that IT people can take to help insure they innovate successfully.
Brian Muirhead is quite literally a rocket scientist who helped lead an era in technology that has enabled NASA to land increasingly sophisticated robotic technology on the surface of Mars. It’s a process that taught him a lot about what it takes to innovate and succeed.
Muirhead told the Black Hat crowd that when he was tasked with helping to lead the Mars Pathfinder mission to land a rover on the Red Planet, his boss told him, “I want you to take risks, but do not fail.”
Taking risks and not failing is a riddle that every great entrepreneur needs to solve, and it’s one that has an answer that NASA has acted upon, he said.
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NASA Engineer at Black Hat: Take Risks, But Do Not Fail
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