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Part 7: Growing Technology In Many Directions
Part 7: Growing Technology In Many Directions

The software and Internet explosion in Silicon Valley was still years away when Sukhminder Grewal worked there as a nuclear engineer for General Electric in the '80s. But when Yale School of Medicine recruited Grewal's wife, a post-doctoral immunologist then at Stanford, the young couple headed east, to Connecticut. "It broke my heart to move," Grewal said. "We said, 'We'll give it a shot.'" Grewal joined GE's Fairfield headquarters, where he examined what computerization could mean. That led to his role developing 3-D computer design at GE's jet engine unit, work he did largely while on the road. By the end of the 1990s,...