I have found her speech in Stanford iTunes U.
She is a director at Intel for their Interaction and Experience Research.
"My job is two things. One of them is to reinvent computing. The second one is more of a challenge since there has been a range of technology that has been coming out in the past five years, whether it's televisions, phones, signage and even our PCs getting smarter and smarter. So, this other part of the job is how to we ensure that we make technology that people will love."
In 2010, she was named as one of the top 25 women in technology.
Born in Australia, she earned PhD at Stanford specialized anthropology.
" it felt like this enormous risk but it was an incredibly stupid thing for me to walk away from a tenure-track position at a well-known university in an area I was good at "
"This is not a big risk in the grand scheme of things. You're not going to end up dead or arrested. You're not going to lose your livelihood. And if you don't take risks like this, then what's the point?"
So how does an anthropologist find a place in techie firm like Intel?
"Initially, Intel was like a field site. It was so profoundly foreign. That let me ask naive questions and it created a headspace I could work in. They also knew anthropology was interesting and believed you could apply it to anything. It was liberating. I was able do research that I could not have done had I stayed in a university."
It reminded of me, going to tech industry from Philosophy major about 5 years ago.
But obviously, I am not as good as her :(
Anyway, I was persuaded that the diversity is really the key of successful enterprise.