AiThority Interview with Pete Wurman, Director at Sony AI America

I got my undergraduate degree from MIT in mechanical engineering. I didn't feel ready to be an engineer, so I went to the University of Michigan to get a Masters degree in mechanical engineering. Along the way, I got a job programming at the university, and eventually decided to go back to school and get a Ph.D. in computer science. From there, I became a professor in the Computer Science Department at North Carolina State. In 2004, as I went up for tenure, my roommate from my undergraduate days at MIT came up with an idea for a robotic warehouse system, and convinced me to help him start what became Kiva Systems.