Regina Dugan Rules for Research

摘要

Regina Dugan is seriously rethinking Android devices. Her team largely does research, but it's more Green Berets than Xerox PARC. The military reference Is no accident. Before Google, Dugan was the director of Darpa, the Department of Defense agency that helped bring us stealth jets and GPS. Her specialty is directing brilliant teams on two-year projects that seem on the edge of impossible. With fewer than 100 employees, she runs an army of about 1,000 contract researchers who are working on nearly a dozen projects. Some are secret, but the ones we've seen are exciting. There's Project Ara, the modular smartphone you snap together, Lego-like. Another: Tango, a tablet that maps your environs in 3-D. ATAP isn't as grandiose as its more famous R&D sibling, Google X. It still aims for the moon, but first It makes sure It has the rockets on hand. Here's how Dugan makes it blast off.