The Importance of Thinking Hard About Problems

Stanford professor Theresa Ming was one of the first female professors at Stanford. Her company, Ethereus, which makes wireless chipsets acquired for, you know, whatever, went public. She convinced him to work on a new field where we can make a big difference by thinking hard about problems may be going. He's now working with an ALS patient who is typing like super fast on a computer and writing sentences almost as fast as he does.