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My name is Stephen Hamilton, and I'm a colonel in the United States Army,

and I am currently working at the Army Cyber Institute as a technical director and the chief of staff.

Computers have fascinated me since I was probably in the second grade. I had the VIC-20.

I wrote some basic programs.

I had the old compute magazine.

It was difficult back then.

We had, I had one computer class, I think, by the time I graduated high school,

and I obviously did well in that class.

But my whole goal was to do computer science.

The military became a different part,

and it was mostly because I went to go to my brother's dorm

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