Turn Left - Illah Nourbakhsh

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Résumé :
Illah Nourbakhsh has spent fifty years navigating the space between cultures in conflict, enduring adversity, becoming resilient and successful, and yet, still failing to satisfy the question: Where do I belong? As it turns out, the answer lies in the space between categories. Drawing from his experience as an Iranian-born immigrant, Nourbakhsh shares his journey from the Iranian Revolution to the AI revolution, electric car races to the dot-com boom, and National Geographic to NASA. Turn Left opens up the essential conversation of identity, community engagement, and the power of robotics....

Biographie:
Illah R. Nourbakhsh is Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he has taught for twenty-eight years. He is vice president of the school board for Winchester Thurston School and on the board of directors of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project. He is also a trustee of the Benedum Foundation, which provides funding for local health, education, and small business development. Currently, Nourbakhsh is honored as a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, a Hastings Fellow, and an inductee of the June Harless West Virginia Hall of Fame. Whether with NASA, the Jet Propulsion labs, or otherwise, Illah'...

Sommaire:
For readers of Martyr! and The World I See, Turn Left is a groundbreaking memoir that maps author Illah Nourbakhsh's journey from the Iranian Revolution to the frontiers of artificial intelligence, revealing how true belonging is found not in a single culture but in the spaces between them.

For fifty years, Illah Nourbakhsh has wrestled with one relentless question: Where do I belong? As an Iranian-born immigrant who rejected the neat labels of bicultural or Iranian-American, he discovered that his true home wasn't in one world, but in the powerful, often chaotic space between them. From the Iranian Revolution to NASA's Mars landings, from the dot-com boom to the frontiers of artificial intelligence, Nourbakhsh has always been an observer of conflict and a pioneer of innovation. Turn Left is the electrifying memoir of a man who built robots for space while searching for his place on Earth, proving that our most authentic identity is forged not in belonging, but in bridging....