For PC Magazine's charter issue(Opens in a new window) in early 1982, the newly minted editor-in-chief and publisher David Bunnell flew to Seattle to interview a fresh-faced, 26-year-old Bill Gates, the president and co-founder of a little software company called Microsoft. Bunnell's goal with this exclusive interview was to understand the part Microsoft and its software played in the development of the groundbreaking IBM PC that was born less than a year earlier. After all, that IBM PC was the namesake of Bunnell's new publication. In the interview, the two discuss how much fun it was for Bill and his team to contribute to the IBM project, how gratifying it was to have been part of it, and how the IBM and Microsoft teams worked together to actually get it done. They even speak of shooting jokes back and forth via an early form of email used for communication between the two teams. Besides recalling many of the gritty details of how the software and hardware were developed together (it was a two-hour interview!),

A rising senior at San Diego State University, computer engineering major James Bunnell will soon have the distinction of having contributed to five scientific papers as an undergraduate. He is now focused on machine learning to assess the best options for materials to be used in sensors that will be embedded in the brain to help patients with debilitating movement disorders such as Parkinson's Disease. Bunnell is a first-generation college student whose parents worked for the Federal Aviation Administration. Their experience changed his own career trajectory, leading him to embark on a pathway to research. When Bunnell transferred to SDSU from Palomar College, he benefited from two programs designed to provide academic support and opportunities for students looking to pursue STEM career pathways: Advancing Navy STEM Workforce through Education and Research (ANSWER) and Math, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) programs.