According to the "Daily Mail" and other media reports, recently, the world's richest Musk's US space exploration technology company Space X admitted a software engineer, but surprisingly, the new employee is only 14 years old, the youngest software engineer in Space X. Quiz, a Bangladeshi-born boy who skipped college at age 9, interned at Intel for three and a half years, mastered 19 computer languages, was rejected 95 times in job searches, and is now Musk's newest right-hand man.
Quiz with his mother and professor
5-year-old talking about chemical weapons scares crying classmates,
The elementary school teacher thought he was a troublemaker
Quiz has been a child prodigy since childhood. His mother, Julia, said that Quiz was different from other children from an early age, and that Quiz discovered a few months after birth was eager to absorb new knowledge: if he suddenly stopped reading to him, he would lose his temper and play news programs on the radio to calm him down.
Quiz's ability to utter complete sentences at the age of two surprised doctors with his extraordinary intelligence and emotional intelligence. Doctors recommended sending two-year-old Quiz to kindergarten, but Quiz's first day of school left the teacher feeling wrong. At that time, when the "Arab Spring" broke out in Egypt, the two-year-old Quez suddenly stood up in class and said: "School is boring", and then led his classmates to march in the classroom and shout "Freedom, Egypt", the two-year-old stunned the teachers.
Quiz is widely known for his extreme talent and has always been listed as a "high genius" by the school
Since then, Quiz has been widely known for his extreme talent and has been listed as a "high genius" by the school. His IQ is higher than that of the 99.99% general population, but unlike other high-IQ prodigies, he is extremely social and good at persuading others. One of the most impressive was when Quiz told his classmates in kindergarten at the age of 5 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons, which scared his classmates to tears on the spot.
Quiz felt that he was an unhappy child in elementary school, and the elementary school classes were boring, and the teachers did not like him, thinking that he was a troublemaker, because he liked to correct the teacher's speech in class.
Skipped a grade to go to college at the age of 9,
Became a paid counselor at school
At the age of 9, Quiz was in third grade, and the teacher realized that mainstream education was no longer suitable for him, so he advised his parents to send Quiz to college. Julia cried with her husband for three days because they couldn't convince the college to admit Quiz.
At that time, Julia asked the school to let her son skip grade from grade 3 to grade 9, but the school refused to accept his immature mind and the self-esteem of other senior students. As a result, she called various universities in the United States and was rejected, only to get a reply from Las Posita Community College. At that time, Julia, in her capacity as a taxpayer, threatened Las Posita Community College with legal action to reply, and finally got the first call back.
Nine-year-old Quiz attended Las Posita Community College and even became a paid counselor at the school. He earned an associate's degree in mathematics in two years, becoming the youngest graduate in the university's history.
Quez spoke with the governor of California
Interned at Intel for 3 and a half years,
He has mastered 19 computer languages
Quiz skipped a grade at the age of 9 and was hailed as a gifted child. He joined Intel's AI department at the age of 10 and has since become the only member of the team without a Ph.D. to program in 19 computer languages.
Quiz joined Intel's artificial intelligence department as an intern at the age of 10
Quiz was not paid for three years at Intel because of a legal gap in the employment of children's college students, but he was grateful for the company's efforts to allow him to work. It took Intel a year and 27 meetings with lawyers to finally get approval to hire child interns.
Most recently, Quiz worked at Intel on the Assisted Situational Awareness Kit, a tool that helps people with severe disabilities communicate, tailored specifically for Hawking for patients with quadriplegia and frostbite. At present, the technology has been able to allow people with disabilities to communicate with people with cheek muscles, and the team is working on new technologies for communicating through eye movements.
often tutoring other college students,
He is a very popular "mentor" at the university
After earning an associate's degree, 11-year-old Quiz faced another problem: he couldn't find a university that could accept children's students. Even with his brilliant resume as an intern at Intel Corporation, the young Quiz was turned away from many universities. Stanford replied that he would be admitted when he was 17.
At that time, Quiz's mother, Julia, approached St. Clara University, and the school's admissions director initially thought it was a joke and called Quiz's boss at Intel for verification. In the end, St. Taclara University finally decided to admit Quiz, allowing him to complete his undergraduate studies in computer science and engineering at the school.
Quiz will graduate on June 17 this year
Quiz will graduate on June 17 this year. In addition to being a member of the Computer Society, he was also a senior senator of the student union, often arranged by the university to tutor other college students, and was a very popular "mentor".
Amer, an assistant professor in Quiz's department, is his academic advisor. "Quiz is sometimes not taken seriously by others because of his age, but he always asks insightful questions," he said. Hopefully, in the future, Quiz will realize how much potential he has and will no longer have to be judged by others. ”
Landman, a 23-year-old master's student, said he thought the guy was short when he first met Quez two years ago, only to find out later that he was only 13 years old. However, although the two are 9 years apart, they still become friends, but he will avoid talking to him about school parties and carnivals.
Job search rejected 95 times,
Now he is Musk's latest right-hand man
Musk, the world's richest man, founded Space X, a space exploration technology company, in 2002 with the goal of reducing the cost of space transportation and colonizing Mars. Now, Quiz will be the youngest software engineer in a fierce competition with a 0.2% acceptance rate and a job offer at SpaceX. In July, he will move to Washington state with his mother to join SpaceX's Starlink team.
Even though he has a strong learning ability, Quiz is still suspected by many employers and has been rejected for job applications many times. Quiz participated in the recruitment of several startups, and even though he had interned at Intel Corporation, no startup dared to hire the young child because labor laws did not clearly stipulate.
Queez said he applied to major technology companies the year before graduation and was rejected 95 times and offered only three jobs. He decided to go to SpaceX, an American space exploration technology company, but then he still wanted to pursue a PhD.
"College was the happiest time of my life, and I'm excited about my new job at SpaceX, and I'm excited about the next chapter in my life," Quiz said. ”
Quiz hopes to enter MIT as a doctoral student in the future, and he may set up a startup of his own to specialize in artificial intelligence language technology in the future, and use his talents to change the world.
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