Bill Dally dropped out of high school. Something about history class. He didn’t want to sit through it.
Dally subsequently went to work as an auto mechanic, though high test scores eventually secured him admission to Virginia Tech despite him having not received a high school diploma. A master’s degree from Stanford followed, and after that a PhD from CalTech. A tenured professor at MIT by his early thirties, Dally is now Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research at Nvidia.
Dally’s career path amid yet another periodic convulsion on the American right about education is worth thinking about.
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