Jesse Dunietz: Star of the science team
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2014
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Jesse Dunietz wasn't thrilled to be the one assigned to the music portion of his high school science team -- the one part of the team that was definitely going to lose. Jesse Dunietz is a Ph.D. student in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. Originally from New Jersey, Jesse's circuitous route to Pittsburgh has included residences in Israel, Cambridge (the Massachusetts one), Cambridge (the English one), and California (the only one). He teaches computers to understand language, coaxing them to stitch the pieces of a sentence into a coherent interpretation. He is also a founder and the current president of Carnegie Mellon's Public Communication for Researchers program, which helps graduate students learn and practice communicating science to people of all backgrounds. He is easily distracted by birds.
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| 0:31.8 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:34.9 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:36.7 | It felt... I felt... |
| 0:37.5 | I was so... |
| 0:38.7 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:39.7 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:42.9 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:49.5 | Hi, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly. And welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring your true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 1:00.1 | This week's stories from Jesse Dunance. The story was recorded in February 2014 at American Junkie in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1:13.6 | For a lot of people, the competitions that define their high school experience were football or basketball or maybe mock trial or debate. |
| 1:22.6 | But for me, the height of high school competition was the Science Olympiad. |
| 1:28.3 | I got at least one Science Olympiad alone here. |
| 1:32.3 | I hadn't heard of this concept until my sophomore year of high school. |
| 1:36.3 | A teacher suggested that I might want to join our school's new team. |
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