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Thank you. dot com backslash cyberwire mk palmore director office of the ceo google cloud

like many kids that grew up in the era that I grew up in, I was fascinated by science fiction, space, and all things electronic.

I thought at one point in my life that I might want to be an astronaut.

It was during that phase that I discovered that the place that I wanted to go to

college, the U.S. Naval Academy at the time, and I think still does, has the most astronauts within the

qualified realm there at NASA. So I was one of the first kids in my neighborhood to have an Atari

system. I had the Commodore 64 computer like most folks and started, you know,

programming at a very, very young age around basic.

But my journey was sort of interrupted as I finally went into college,

and I ultimately did not pursue computing as a major.

I had as a young African-American boy growing up in southeast Washington, D.C.,

had no reason to believe that I was going to be able to attend the Naval Academy.

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