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\"Kinnaman<\/a>Ben Kinnaman, MS \u201906, was raised in the port town of Morehead City, North Carolina. \u201cI grew up in the water \u2026 diving, and surfing, and fishing, and everything else.\u201d Twenty-five years later, Kinnaman\u2019s life is still dedicated to the ocean\u2014even though he lives and works in the mountains of Vermont.<\/p>\n

Kinnaman is the founder and CEO of Greensea Systems<\/a>, a firm that builds control and navigation technologies for unmanned underwater vehicles. Such devices are used in salvage operations, mine detection, and studies of deep-sea biology and geology. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to create software that will allow these unmanned robots to act cognitively and intelligently,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Kinnaman worked as a salvage diver after college. In that role, he found that the software governing unmanned vehicles had serious deficiencies. To solve the problems, he realized that he needed stronger computer engineering skills. So he turned to the Whiting School.<\/p>\n

The first semester\u2019s C++ course, Kinnaman says, was by far the most comprehensive and rigorous course of its kind he\u2019d ever encountered. To this day, he gives each of his new hires a copy of that course\u2019s textbook.<\/p>\n

Kinnaman and his wife, Joanna, moved to Vermont and launched Greensea Systems within weeks after he finished the Johns Hopkins program. Why build a deep-sea business in the middle of Vermont? \u201cMy wife and I had vacationed here for a long time,\u201d he says. \u201cWe wanted a small town and a quiet place to raise a family. I\u2019ve never regretted it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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