James Harder joined Virginia Tech’s “Curious Conversations” to talk about entrepreneurship and emerging technologies, specially highlighting the Department of Computer Science’s initiative CS/root. Harder shared his belief that the entrepreneurship process can be learned and applied to various novel ideas, the ways the program hopes to teach and support it, as well as the role it will play in putting emerging technology in more people’s hands.
About Harder
Harder is the external engagement manager for Virginia Tech’s Department of Computer Science and the executive director of CS/root, the department’s program to support and encourage computer science-focused entrepreneurship. His research interests include agricultural applications of blockchain as well as other emergent technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and cybersecurity.